Scrolling Through The Command Manager Tabs

In Solidworks 2008, if your using the tabbed command manager, you may have discovered that it's sometimes hard to click those little tabs to get to a different menu.  If you place your cursor anywhere on the command manager, and then scroll your mouse wheel, you will scroll through the tabs.  Scrolling the wheel towards you switches between tabs in a left to right direction, and scrolling the wheel away from you switches between the tabs in a right to left direction.

Now let me add a note to that.  I'm not sure if thats an intended functionality or not.  When I'm in an part, it will scroll through all the tabs.  In an assembly, it won't go past the fourth tab, and loops back to the beginning.  In a drawing, it will scroll through all the tabs, but stops at the last one, and then you have to reverse the mouse scroll to go back!

Try it and let me know if it works for you.  My mouse scroll wheel is configured as a middle mouse button in the mouse settings.

Comments

[That_guy]

I think its intended, very similar to what Firefox has had around for awhile. Open up tabs and just mouse scroll and you can toggle through all the tabs instead of clicking them. Obviously in Firefox, the CTRL-TAB is used for other purposes.

Some other short cuts that are the same for both:
CTRL-W closes active window
F11 toggles full screen
CTRL-N new doc

I couldn't seem to find any other useful ones. I remember learning some of those short cuts on a PC World article on firefox "tips and tricks"...obviously it can be applied to some other stuff besides FF

[Rob Jensen]

Mike

In a part or drawing my mouse will scroll through the tabs and stops at the last one then I just reverse the direction. In a assembly it loops through all of them.

Nice tip..