Chapter 2: Navigating the SolidWorks Interface
- Run your cursor over the main menu flyout and use the pushpin to pin the menu
open.
- Choose Tools ➪ Customize ➪ Options and select both Show All buttons for Shortcut
customization and Menu customizations. This removes the double arrows at the bot-
toms of RMB menus. This setting is shown in Figure 2.43.
FIGURE 2.43
Removing truncated menus
- While still in the Customize dialog box, change to the Toolbars tab and deselect the
Context Toolbar Settings ➪ Show In Shortcut Menu option to disable the right click
context toolbar to put the RMB menus back to their pre-2008 state (all entries in
menu use text).
- Click and drag the PropertyManager tab (second tab from the left) from the
FeatureManager, and dock it just to the right of the FeatureManager under the
CommandManager tabs. The display should now look like Figure 2.44.
The small flyout in the lower-right corner of Figure 2.44 is the remainder of the Sketch toolbar
that does not fit on the screen. This screen shot was taken on a 12-inch monitor with large icons
at 1024 × 768 resolution. At such a low resolution, long toolbars do not fit on the screen, and
the remaining icons are activated by the two small arrows at the end of the toolbar.
