Hide a tab by selecting Hide Tab from the right mouse shortcut menu on one of the existing tabs. 
Rename a user added tab by selecting Rename Tab from the right mouse shortcut menu on one of the user added tabs. You cannot delete the tabs that are defined by default in the SolidWorks installation. Delete a user added tab by selecting Delete from the right mouse shortcut menu on one of the user added tabs. If the tab already exists in the target document type, it will ask you if you would like to over-write the definition. Copy the definition of a tab from one document type definition (part, assembly, or drawing) to another by selecting Copy Tab to from the right mouse shortcut menu on one of the existing tabs. Add a new tab pre-populated with all of the buttons from an existing toolbar by selecting Add Tab, from the right mouse shortcut menu on one of the existing tabs. 
If using the shortcut menu, the new tab is added after the tab where you used the shortcut menu.
Add an empty tab by clicking on the tab with the new tab icon on it (shown below) or by selecting Add Tab, Empty Tab from the right mouse shortcut menu on one of the existing tabs. Below are the things you can do while in customize mode. Most customization of the CommandManager is done when the Tools, Customize, Commands dialog is up, similar to customizing regular toolbars. Below is a picture of the CommandManager with the text turned off: The presence of the text is what makes the buttons large, not the icon size. This option was originally called "Show Descriptions" but users didn't seem to find that option and always asked "how do I turn off the large buttons" so we renamed the option to be more discoverable. Note that it is intended that the icon size itself is linked to the "Large icons" option in Tools, Customize, Toolbars and not controlled by the "Use Large Buttons with Text" option. This turns the text off and makes it about the size of a regular toolbar, with the addition of the tabs. You can make the CommandManager a lot smaller by unselecting "Use Large Buttons with Text" (through Tools, Customize, Toolbars or right mouse button shortcut menu on the application/toolbar frame). You navigate between the tabs of the CommandManager by selecting the desired tab OR scrolling your mouse wheel when your mouse is over the CommandManager. Some users use the CommandManager for their most commonly used toolbars while others use it for their least commonly used toolbars (and use regular toolbars or other methods for more direct access with less clicks).īelow is a list of other behaviors that are available with the CommandManager: Below is a picture of the current CommandManager: There is also a "special" user customizable definition of buttons that shows up at the left side of the CommandManager when the user is in Edit Part in Assembly mode. The CommandManager has three separate user customizable definitions (part, assemblies and drawings). The user can make as many tabs as they like and put toolbar buttons and separators of their choosing on each tab. It is similar to the Microsoft "Ribbon Bar" released with Office 2007, but is much more customizable and does not completely replace the menus. The CommandManager has now evolved into a tabbed container of toolbar buttons. It is obviously a tradeoff between space and mouse clicks, but we built some "smarts" into it so it would automatically switch the active toolbar when appropriate (like when going into or coming out of Sketch mode). The main goal of the CommandManager was to allow access to many toolbars without taking up a lot of screen real estate since we know many users want as much space for their model as possible. You chose buttons in the "control area" of the CommandManager to indicate which normal toolbar you wanted to be active. It originally was a "super toolbar" where you could simply choose as many normal toolbars as you wanted to be grouped into this super toolbar, so multiple toolbars could occupy the same space. The CommandManager was originally introduced in SolidWorks 2004 and was enhanced in SolidWorks 20. This post is about the SolidWorks CommandManager. The first few posts will be about the various types of toolbars available in the system. #Solidworks 2005 command line series
Call the series "Everything you wanted to know about -–, but were afraid to ask". This blog post is the third in a series of technical tips about the SolidWorks User Interface.
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