SolidWorks Confirmation Corner. Use It? Loose It? Three Other Options.

by Josh on June 16, 2008 · Comments

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The SolidWorks Confirmation Corner. That little island in the corner just tempting you to become a more decisive person. One option, to accept the ensuing fate of the changes you’ve made to your sketch. The other, to abandon all the relations you’ve jacked up.

Do you really… I mean REALLY want to exit that sketch? Think about it and choose wisely, because that sketch change might work… but it might not. Tough decisions for those non-committal types huh? I used it in the past, but since SW08, I have it turned off. What about you?

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Other Options?
While there’s not a regular command to exit the sketch that disregards any changes, there are other ways to get out of the edit sketch command, as well as edit feature commands, that may be faster than traveling to the Confirmation Corner. Here’s three that will keep you closer to that cool lookin’ model of yours.

Shortcut Bar
This is what I use the most often. In SolidWorks 2008, if you hit the ‘S’-key (default setting) a shortcut bar appears near your cursor that has an option to exit the sketch when you are in one. I use this Shortcut bar for just about all my commands. If I need to get out of a sketch without making changes, I’ll usually hit Ctrl-Z (Undo) multiple times. Incidentally, if you unintentionally enter into edit sketch mode, you can back out right away by hitting Ctrl-Z.
Right Click, Exit Sketch
Whether you right-click on or off a sketch entity when in a sketch, one option at the top of the context menu is to exit the sketch. For me, I’ll typically use this when editing sketches in-context of other parts, rather than the Shortcut bar Option mentioned above. Kinda depends on which part of my brain is acting faster.
Right Click, OK/Cancel
When you’re editing a feature and you right-click, an option appears in the context menu to accept it or cancel it. What’s even faster (for me) is using the ESC key when I want to exit a command. I wish this was the same functionality existed for sketches. This would add a great deal of consistency to the commands.

So, outta all this we find there’s more options to accept or reject changes and maybe some command options that need to be made a bit more consistent. I’d set it up so the ESC key cancels out of any command and another key accepts the changes. But for now, the decision about whether to accept or reject what you’ve done… is up to you.

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Devon T. Sowell

The confirmation corner? Off.

Devon

Josh

Very Cool everyone! glad to see the double-click to exit sketches is being used. I think that really shows how the confirmation corner isn't used as much as it use to be, although the poll, so far, is showing that most people do still use it. I think that can partly be attributed to people not knowing about the other methods and just being use to seeing it and using it. I'd like an Alt-double-click to cancel any changes. That would be a great alternative, but mostly I wish it would be the same for all the commands.

Frank

for me it just eats up realestate
the first time I rember seeing that thing was in my 2004 I figured a way to dispose of it when 2005 came out I tried it for a coule of months then went back to using 2004 looked at 06 and 07 tossed both in the garbage now I thought I would give 08 a try been using a couple of months nothing in it that I lke but now too late to go back to 2004 478 GB of files converted to 08
08 is 20 times larger and 10 times slower and this is on a machine specificly built to handle it if I wanted to have autocad I would be using that
if I wanted coral draw I would be using that the best eddition solidworks had was 2001+ unless I can figure out how to hack out a lot of the rubbish that I don't need or use then this is deffinatly my last eddition. I am daily finding it faster to just hand draw what I need to have built than to fiddle around with all of the cabagepatch stuff in the 08

BRS

I just use my shortcut menu for exiting unless on those annoying occasions it makes me exit using the corner..

Marijn

I try to exit with the feature I need. Some times I start with the feature and exit with double click but lots when I need extrude i just hit the shortcut e and exit into extrude mode.

Nick Barber

I tried to stop using it, but my mouse always moves up there regardless! I'm addicted to the corner!

Ivan

I love doing the double-click in the background. What more, if you pick a plane or face and you hit a feature command, it puts you into sketch mode. When you're finished sketching, double-click in an open area and it puts you to the 'feature mode'. Hit enter to accept.

Brad

What about double-click on the background? That will exit the current sketch, saving changes.

Hugh

This is great, didn't know that before!

Brian

I use option 2 or 3 above most often, but will probably start using Option 1 once I get more used to SolidWorks 2008 (we just rolled a couple of weeks ago).