In this tutorial, we’re going to activate and set up mouse gestures. Mouse gestures are an amazing customization tool that you can use in Solidworks. It allows you to quickly access up to twelve unique tools at the quick click and drag of the mouse. This saves you time from going to all the different toolbars and makes your modeling more efficient.
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In today’s video, we’re going to go over how to set up mouse gestures in SolidWorks.
Start by opening up a new blank part file.
Mouse Gestures allow you to quickly access commonly used commands, saving you time while working in SolidWorks.
To activate mouse gestures, we’re going to go to Options and select customize to open up the customization window.
This window allows you to see all the different ways you can customize SolidWorks to fit your needs.
We’ll cover more of these tabs in future videos.
We’ll select the mouse gestures tab and select Enable Mouse Gestures, if it’s not enabled.
I’ve set my mouse gestures to their factory defaults for this video.
As you can see, we’ll have a unique wheel for Parts, Sketches, Assemblies and Drawings.
We have a few options on the screen.
We can use the drop down menu to select how many options we want for each wheel, selecting anywhere from two to up to 12 options.
I typically utilize 8 gestures.
That typically covered all of my commonly used commands in Solidworks.
For this example, we’ll select four gestures.
As you can see, for parts and assemblies, the four default commands are the top, right, left and bottom views.
Let’s modify those to have the measure tool, sketch Isometric view and OK green check for the part wheel.
For the assembly wheel, we’ll use the measure tool, Mate. ISO and Explode View.
To add a tool, we simply need to find it on the list to the left and click and drag it to the appropriate cell of our wheel.
Since this list has every available tool in Solidworks, its best to search for the command.
We’ll search for measure. And click and drag the tool into the left cell of both our part and assembly wheel.
Pro tip: if you’re using the same tool in multiple wheels, try and put them in the same location to make it easier to remember where they are, regardless of what file type you have open.
We’ll add the Isometric view to the top cell of both wheels.
For the right and bottom cells of the part wheel, we’ll add sketch and the OK check box. Make sure you select the sketch tool without the pencil.
For the Assembly wheel, we’ll add the mate and explode view options to the right and bottom cells, respectively.
We have the option here to print a copy of our Gesture guide, if we wanted to hang it up until we became acclimated with our different options.
And here we can reset back to the Solidworks factory defaults.
Now lets hit ok and test out our wheel. We’re in a part file, so if we hold the right mouse button and move our curser.

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