Part V: Creating Drawings
A summary of the added Navigation functionality is as follows:l Enter. Move to next cell downl (^) Tab. Move to next cell to the right
l Arrow. Move cursor in any direction
l (^) Shift+Arrow. Increases selection size
l Shift+Tab. Move cursor backward
l (^) Shift+Enter. Move cursor up
l Home. Move cursor to first column
l (^) Ctrl+Home. Move to upper left of table
l End. In combination with arrow keys goes to end indicated
l (^) Ctrl+End. Move cursor to bottom right of table
A summary of the added Editing functionality is as follows:
l (^) F2. Edit contents of cell
l Double-click. Edit contents of cell
l (^) Alt+Enter. Add multiple rows to cell
l Delete. Delete contents of cell without activating cell
l (^) Backspace. Delete contents of cell and activate cell
l Ctrl+Delete. Delete one word at a time
l (^) Edit. Edit multiple rows heights simultaneously
l Lock. Lock row height and column width
l (^) Copy. Copy cells from Excel to SolidWorks tables
Retiring the Excel-based BOM
In previous releases, the Excel-based BOM was the only way to add a BOM to a drawing. This fea-
ture has been replaced in most respects by the SolidWorks native table-driven BOM, but many
people still use the Excel-based BOM either out of habit or to comply with legacy standards.
Figure 24.9 shows the interface for the Excel-based BOM.
Best Practice
Unless you have a compelling reason to do otherwise, I recommend using the SolidWorks table-based BOM
because it is the function that will be best supported in future versions of SolidWorks software. n