SolidWorks 2010 Bible

Part I: SolidWorks Basics

and either drag items from the Customize dialog box to the View toolbar to add them, or from the

View toolbar into the empty graphics area to remove them. You can use these tools with part and

assembly models but not drawings.

FIGURE 5.3

The View toolbar

Adding scrollbars and splitters

An option exists to add scrollbars and view pane splitters to the graphics window. To use it,

choose Tools ➪ Options ➪ Display/Selection, Display Scrollbars in graphics view. This selection will

be grayed out if any SolidWorks documents are open (so you must close all SolidWorks documents

to change it). When you zoom in such that the part/assembly/drawing is partially off the screen,

the scrollbars will activate on the right side and bottom of the SolidWorks window, enabling you

to scroll up and down as well as left and right to pan the view.

Figure 5.4 shows a detail of the bottom-right corner of the SolidWorks graphics window, where

you find the scrollbars and splitters. Notice the cursor in the lower right over one of the splitters.

The splitters can be easy to miss if you do not know what they look like.

FIGURE 5.4

Scrollbars and splitters controls can be turned on or off.

The splitters enable you to split the main graphics window into multiple view ports. The options

are two ports horizontally, two ports vertically, or four view ports. The splitter bars are located at

the intersection of the scrollbars in the lower-right corner of the graphics window. Of course, you

can also use the icons on the Standard Views toolbar for splitting the view into two vertical ports,

two horizontal ports, or four ports, the Heads-up View toolbar, or the View Orientation flyout.

Once a viewport has been split, you can remove the split with the toolbar icons, either by dragging

the border back to the edge of the display window or by double-clicking the split border. If the

view has been split into four, you can set it back to a single viewport by double-clicking the

intersection of the horizontal and vertical port borders.