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Last week we talked about naming features to improve your design. Sometimes, on very rare occasions, when your feeling especially detail oriented, you may want to add a special character to a name or note.
Fortunately, Windows has a bunch of obscure numbers you can use to add some symbols to you descriptions and it all starts with the magic Alt button. The button next to the spacebar you may be most familiar with when SolidWorks locks up and you resort to pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
For instance pressing Alt and 0177 will insert a ±.
pressing Alt and 0188 will insert a ¼.
Now isn’t that unusually handy?
Here’s a Windows Alt Code Quicksheet I created for quick reference.
You can find more details on Alt Codes here at Wikipedia.
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Josh, you are amazing! What a great thing to get out into the community. Great job on the Quicksheet you created, very nice. Keep up the great work and I look forward to meeting you in San Diego.
Thanks Jason! glad it helps. I always hated having to go to the Character Map program to get the special character I wanted. Hopefully this will help in many situations.
I found out about those many moons ago in high school writing papers for my Spanish class. ¡Yo quiero Taco Bell!
Cool sheet, though. I’ll definitely pass this one around the office.
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Thanks Josh
Josh,
I love the tip… the only Alt code I have had memorized is is ALT 0176 for the deg symbol. ° But this cheat sheet is great!!! I think I might use some of them on the cheat sheet I am having printed if that is ok!!
Al