Disappearing Pop Up Menu in SOLIDWORKS? Re-Click Control!

To increase our productivity in SOLIDWORKS, we use those handy pop-up menus to:

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A single click can launch a pop-up menu, or, Control-select multiple items and releasing Control launches the pop-up menu.

Inevitably, we move the mouse and that handy pop-up menu disappears.

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Rather than starting over…
Instead, move your mouse back to the same general area of the lost pop-up menu and press/release the Control key again.

This will re-display that elusive pop-up menu.

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Here is a short video depicting the situation.

 

 

Laura Nickerson, CSWE
Application Engineer
Computer Aided Technology, Inc.

 

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