The first release of the SolidWorks 2008 removed the scroll bars from the graphic area. The development team at SolidWorks decided to remove the scrollbars “as many users requested their removal since they did not use them at all and the just took up graphic space.” As you can imagine, this led to some grumblings from the SolidWorks user community. Their absence was short lived, however. In Service Packet 2.0 the scroll bars made a triumphant return but most users are unaware of this. If you miss your scroll bars and would like them to be enable them once again, look no future then your system options.

First, close all parts and drawings in SolidWorks. Click the Options button from your toolbar. This will launch your System Options – General window.

Select Display/Selection from the menu on the left of the window.

Lastly, enable the Display scrollbars in graphics view option and press OK.

Your scroll bars will now be enabled. To turn off the scroll bars once again follow the same process remembering that you must not have any documents open in SolidWorks.

If there is a problem in SolidWorks, PDMWorks Workgroup or just a modeling or drawing question please contact me.

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.