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How To Get Windows Alt Codes Into SolidWorks

Started by Josh M · 10 months ago

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 ... Continue reading »

9 comments

Jason Raak
1 year ago

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.

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Josh
1 year ago

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.

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Bruce Buck
1 year ago

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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K Mason
1 year ago

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Thanks Josh

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aWhatmough
1 year ago

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

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code
10 months ago

More alt codes here: Alt Codes

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Jared
8 months ago

Mmmmm. Might be being obtuse here, but why not just use the insert symbol command in Solidworks?

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Andrew
4 months ago

The suggestion was specifically about naming features or adding comments in the FM

If you know some way of using that command for this, please enlighten us !

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