file path display
file path display
(OP)
At the very top of the Solid works screen (in a blue bar) it has the file name that is open shown, I my case it shows " SolidWorks Office Professional 2006 - [filename.sldprt]", its the area inside the square brackets that I am intersted in. Does anyone know how to have the file name include the complete name and path, ie: "c:\jobfiles\parts\partname.sldprt"
SW 2006 SP3.4
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 [Display adapter]
Windows 2000 SP5






RE: file path display
You'll have to submit an enhancement request for that feature.
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Jason
UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2
RE: file path display
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
RE: file path display
I would be interested in learning how to do that also.
Cheers,
Ralph Wright, CSWP
SolidWorks 2005, SP5.0
P4, 2.53Ghz
1.5 Gb RAM
ATI Fire GL8800 Card
Windows 2000 Pro
RE: file path display
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: file path display
SW 2006 SP4.0
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 [Display adapter]
Windows 2000 SP5
RE: file path display
That's called the "Title Bar". The text it displays is a Windows option. Open Windows Explorer (or My Computer, or whatever it called). Go to the Tools menu and select Folder Options. Choose the View tab. Check the box next to "Display full path in titlebar".
Should be good to go now,
Ken
RE: file path display
RE: file path display
Are you sure about that? Every computer with Windows XP that I've set as described above, has given the results I described as well.
As for settings in Windows Explorer that could affect programs other than Windows Explorer...I know that if you check the box next to "Show hidden files and folders", that you will see all of those temp files that (windows?) creates with the ~ at the beginning of the filenames will show up everywhere (SW, M$ Word) that you have open files.
There are probably a couple more settings in Windows Explorer that will affect other programs too, but I haven't verified any others.
I always click the "Apply to All Folders" button too, but I don't know if that should matter or not.
Ken
RE: file path display
I may spoken too quickly. I have that option checked on my machine, but SW doesn't display the full path. However, I may need to click that button to apply to all folders. Sorry also for my sloppy post. I meant to say "affects the SW title bar".
RE: file path display
Looks like I need to know what I'm talking about before I speak because now all I see in the SW title bar is the filename. I thought it used to display the entire path in SW as well, but it must only be within the Windows Explorer as you stated earlier.
Sorry for the confusion,
Ken
RE: file path display
SW 2006 SP4.0
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 [Display adapter]
Windows 2000 SP5
RE: file path display
SA
RE: file path display
Exactly what are you trying to do. Someone may be able to come up with some alternate solution.
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Does anyone know how to have the file name include the complete name and path, ie: "c:\jobfiles\parts\partname.sldprt"
SW 2006 SP4.0
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 [Display adapter]
Windows 2000 SP5
RE: file path display
http://wor
http://tinyurl.com/adhyq
I googled 'full path title bar'. This is not a problem unique to us.
Hopefully helpful.
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Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
SW 2005 SP 4.0 (reluctant to change)
Matrox Millenium G550
AMD Athalon 1.8 GHz 512 Meg RAM
RE: file path display
The way to do it is:
1.Activate the web toolbar from View/Toolbars
2. Click "Open Internet Address" button and browse for the file you want to work on.
If you open the file in this way the entire path is displayed in the drop down box just next to the web toolbar.
Regards
RE: file path display
SW 2006 SP4.0
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 [Display adapter]
Windows 2000 SP5
RE: file path display
Regards
RE: file path display
If all you want to do is make sure the path of the file you're working on at a glance, you can set the status bar text pretty easily. At SolidAir's suggestion (in another thread) I've been learning about class modules and using the event triggers in SW. The macro at
http://
when run will stay active for the current SW session and catch any change of active document in SW. It will write the full path of the active document to a status bar pane. Depending on how long your file paths are and other settings on your machine, the full path may be too long to display. In the Class module "MyListeningClass" is a constant named "MAXLEN" with a value of 110. Any path longer than this will have the middle cut out and replaced with "....." to reduce the total length of the string to MAXLEN (or MAXLEN-1, depending on even/odd). You can adjust MAXLEN to a value that suits your system.
RE: file path display
Maybe someone could create a macro that displays the current path in the Feature Tree? GetPathName (instead of GetTitle) could be used to grab the whole path, then you can do whatever you want with the info in the macro. :)