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SolidWorks has quite a few shortcuts built in, a lot of which aren’t immediately apparent. In quite a few features, if you select an entity, you’ll see a mouse icon with an image for either the right or left click, something like a green check mark, arrow, or eye glasses indicating that if you right or left click SolidWorks will perform some sort of operation. Some of the areas in which this applies are adding dimensions, fillet features, copy with mates, reference geometries, and several features that have multiple selection boxes, such as the full round fillet. These shortcuts can save you quite a bit of time, and the video that follows explains the shortcuts in greater detail.

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