{"id":818,"date":"2009-07-21T06:27:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T10:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/making-quick-dimension-changes-using-your-mouse-wheel"},"modified":"2009-07-21T06:27:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T10:27:33","slug":"making-quick-dimension-changes-using-your-mouse-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2009\/07\/making-quick-dimension-changes-using-your-mouse-wheel.html","title":{"rendered":"Making quick dimension changes&hellip; using your mouse wheel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst working on a design task this morning it needed to try out a few positional changes in a sketch.<\/p>\n<p><em><font color=\"#000080\">Personally I am a big fan of using the mouse wheel to quickly change the dimension values\u2026 but today I found that I could improve on this!<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure you are all familiar with \u201cspin box\u201d increments even if you don\u2019t recognise the name\u2026 You can also change the value of the spin box increments in the SW options, by default they are 10mm. this means that when you click the spin box the value changes by 10mm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e20115721e4ee7970b.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" border=\"0\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d83451706569e2015437319e35970c\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e2015437319e35970c.png\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" width=\"452\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Another way to increment using the spin box values is to drag the slider bar or roll your mouse wheel. This gives you quick access to changing your dimensions. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\">SolidWorks gives you more control\u2026 by holding down Ctrl or Alt you can further change how the spin box increments your dimensions. Take a look at the image below:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e201157129ce25970c.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" border=\"0\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d83451706569e2015437319e37970c\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e2015437319e37970c.png\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" width=\"396\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Using the above info and your middle mouse wheel is a really quick way to make changes in a sketch or anywhere you get the dimension dialogue.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:292accbc-6771-4d76-a4e8-62ae43c4015a\" style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Sketching\" rel=\"tag\">Sketching<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Tips+and+Tricks\" rel=\"tag\">Tips and Tricks<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/SolidWorks\" rel=\"tag\">SolidWorks<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst working on a design task this morning it needed to try out a few positional changes in a sketch. Personally I am a big fan of using the mouse wheel to quickly change the dimension values\u2026 but today I<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2009\/07\/making-quick-dimension-changes-using-your-mouse-wheel.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":3256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}