{"id":1696,"date":"2016-07-07T11:58:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T16:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2016-10-28T13:23:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T18:23:57","slug":"solidworks-keyboard-quick-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/2016\/solidworks-keyboard-quick-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Solidworks – Keyboard Quick Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am always struggling to make things easier when creating models. This week I am experimenting – I have remapped my “~” key to be a decimal point. This way I don’t always have to move my left hand off the keyboard when entering dimensions. So far it has been pretty helpful. (The silly label you see is only for this pic)<\/p>\n

I use the SharpKeys <\/a>program to change the mapping – which has been pretty handy over the years, since I like to use an Apple keyboard on a Windows machine AND I use the incredible SYNERGY <\/a>software to allow me to control both mac & pc with same keyboard\/mouse.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 10\/27\/16:<\/span> This hack\u00a0began to be unreliable – causing lots of erratic keyboard behavior, so I abandoned the attempt. Instead I bought a wireless numeric keypad to put on the left side of my keyboard, which is a much better long term solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I am always struggling to make things easier when creating models. This week I am experimenting – I have remapped my “~” key to be a decimal point. This way I don’t always have to move my left hand off the keyboard when entering dimensions. So far it has been pretty helpful. (The silly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56],"tags":[117,101,115,114,116],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7yDEm-rm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1723,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/1723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}