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Custom properties driven from Design Table

Custom properties driven from Design Table

Custom properties driven from Design Table

(OP)
I am having some problems getting my custom properties to load from my DT. When I set up my DT, I use $prp@OrderNumber, but when it load to the custom properties it goes into Configuration Specific, but not the standard Custom Properties.

I have not intentially setup any configuration in this model, but I am using Weldments, which appears to default to an "As Welded" and "As Machined" configs. My DT has Default <As Machined>. It errors out if I try to change it to Default <As Welded>.

Any ideas?
Thanks
Joe

RE: Custom properties driven from Design Table

You cannot set custom properties in the Custom tab from a design table.

I do not use design tables with weldments because of some stability problems I ran into awhile back.

SA

RE: Custom properties driven from Design Table

[quote SW Help]Creating a Design Table
To create a design table, you define the names of the configurations you want to create, you specify the parameters you want to control, and you assign values for each parameter.[/b]

The whole purpose of a DT is to give an easy, "one-stop" place to control configs & their parameters (Configuration Specific properties). The "Custom Properties" apply "across the board" to all configs ... so the "one-stop" place for that is the File > Properties dialogue box.

cheers
Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: Custom properties driven from Design Table

(OP)
I am using the DT as a portal to outside data. Maybe thats wrong, I am not sure. But what I am doing is importing data through a VB interface, dumping it into the DT (where there is some logic/equations going on) and driving the model.

If that locks me into configs, that fine, I will just work around it and always set it to the active config.

Thanks
joe

RE: Custom properties driven from Design Table

If you're already familiar with VB/VBA you can just write a macro to take the value from config-specific OrderNumber from the <As Machined> config and drop it in the overall OrderNumber.  

RE: Custom properties driven from Design Table

If you do what handleman suggests, you will also have to delete the "Config Specific" property, because they take precedence over the "Custom Properties".

cheers
Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: Custom properties driven from Design Table

JoeMoss,

To expand on handleman's suggestion.  While you cannot directly populate the Custom tab from a design table using SolidWorks built in functionality. If you really want to control it from the design table, you can do it indirectly by putting a macro in the design table so that it will populate the Custom tab. I would put it in the worksheet's before close event.

SA

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