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NEW DRAWING TEMPLATE DOESNT KNOW IT'S NAME
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NEW DRAWING TEMPLATE DOESNT KNOW IT'S NAME

NEW DRAWING TEMPLATE DOESNT KNOW IT'S NAME

(OP)
I have created a template with the title block to our company standard, all the feilds are working, gathering property values from the model or assembly. The template has 3 ortho views, plus one iso view. When the part or assembly is inserted into the drawing and I select save, the drawing does not inherit the parts file name. Any suggestions...

SW 2005 SP3
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 [Display adapter]
Windows 2000 SP5

RE: NEW DRAWING TEMPLATE DOESNT KNOW IT'S NAME

Make the drawing title link to the part/assy file name.

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)

FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

RE: NEW DRAWING TEMPLATE DOESNT KNOW IT'S NAME

(OP)
That's what I want to happen I think, the automatic naming of the file worked fine until I added the views to the template. Now the link is lost. I don't know how or where to add it, or what any other effects of adding the views to the template could be. I just dont want to have to type the name agian(for obvious reasons)

SW 2005 SP3
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 [Display adapter]
Windows 2000 SP5

RE: NEW DRAWING TEMPLATE DOESNT KNOW IT'S NAME

On the template put in:

$PRPSHEET:"SW-File Name"

Bradley

RE: NEW DRAWING TEMPLATE DOESNT KNOW IT'S NAME

(OP)
Sorry my fault I guess I wasn't describing the problem clearly enough. - It has that($PRPSHEET:"SW-File Name"), the name of the part goes into the title block just fine, but when I select save the name of actual "file name" in the save as box is just Draw11.SLDDRW or what ever draw# is next in line. Thats the property that is not being inherited.

SW 2005 SP3.1
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 [Display adapter]
Windows 2000 SP5

RE: NEW DRAWING TEMPLATE DOESNT KNOW IT'S NAME

You can link the title to properties of either the dwg ot model. Select the correct link you want to see.

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)

FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

RE: NEW DRAWING TEMPLATE DOESNT KNOW IT'S NAME

(OP)
Maybe it's the way I'm describing it or I just don't understand what you guys are saying. I'm new to SW so maybe it is me. I will try this once agian... when I select "make a drawing from part or assembly" I use the template I created that has all the attributes already entered into it. The drawing works and looks fine. When I select save from the main menu a dialogue box pops up. The dialogue box should have the name of the model already in the "File Name" line (this was the way it worked before I added the predefined views to the template) now it just has "Draw1.SLDDRW" for example. I can type in the correct name but I shouldn't have to. Somewhere something has caused this & I am lost as to why.

SW 2005 SP3.1
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 [Display adapter]
Windows 2000 SP5

RE: NEW DRAWING TEMPLATE DOESNT KNOW IT'S NAME

When you create a new dwg, as you described, the file will be called "Draw1.SLDDRW". It will not have the models file name. I have never this done.

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)

FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

RE: NEW DRAWING TEMPLATE DOESNT KNOW IT'S NAME

(OP)
Wow, I have always had the name already in place in the dialogue box, the is the only time that this has happened to me. I can get it back by not having predefined views in the template, but thats the bug I want fixed.

SW 2005 SP3.1
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 [Display adapter]
Windows 2000 SP5

RE: NEW DRAWING TEMPLATE DOESNT KNOW IT'S NAME

pdelnet ... me too! Create a part/assy, open a drawing, place views, do a save, name in 'File Name" field is automatically the same as the part/assy. Sorry, I don't know why your setup is not doing the same.


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RE: NEW DRAWING TEMPLATE DOESNT KNOW IT'S NAME

Mine usually works that way also, although just a few weeks ago I had a drawing that would randomly display 'SW3' or 'SW7' as the drawing file name.  Cntrl Q would temporarily fix it, but I would always notice that at some point the diplayed file name would revert to 'SW#' were '#' seemed to be a random number.  If the file was opened as view only, or with the viewer, the drawing name never diplayed what it should.  I ended up just typing in the drawing number and have since not run across this issue again.

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