The Magnifying Glass...
By John Setzer, Graphics Systems Corp.
SolidWorks 2009 has so many great new features it's hard for me to pick a favorite, but one of them has to be the Magnifying Glass. Simply put, the Magnifying Glass lets me zoom into any area of my model and easily make selections for commands such as Mate.
Using the G key, I placed the Magnifying Glass over the model view, then used the zoom wheel to make the glass area zoom to a point where I could easily select two faces of the gears using Ctrl-select.
The great thing about the Magnifying Glass is that it gives me independent zoom inside the glass area, but I can easily move the glass around and rotate the model. The glass stays put on screen, wherever I leave it, and I can follow the model under the glass as I rotate the view.
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