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Show Full File Path Of Active Doc' In SW TItle Bar
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Show Full File Path Of Active Doc' In SW TItle Bar

Show Full File Path Of Active Doc' In SW TItle Bar

(OP)
As a follow up to "file path display"  thread559-152884

... anyone know of a solution for this yet?

cheers

RE: Show Full File Path Of Active Doc' In SW TItle Bar

CorBlimeyLimey,

Go to the SolidWorks Discussion Forum and under the User Interface group look for Post on 03 Oct by Richard Hannaby titled Full Path Name.  I posted a macro along with a small executable on 02 Nov that addressed the problem.  Stef Boinon offered an improvement on 06 Nov.  I hope this helps.

SA

RE: Show Full File Path Of Active Doc' In SW TItle Bar

(OP)
Perfect!!! 2thumbsup to both you and Stef.

You should make that into an FAQ for easy future reference.
With the new "SolidWorks Discussion Forum" looming, it might get lost in the shuffle.

Thank you.

cheers

RE: Show Full File Path Of Active Doc' In SW TItle Bar

CorBlimeyLimey,

I guess I could do that (or Stef if he wishes; he frequents this forum too).  I actually have no use for this functionality.  Where I work, with the way our PDM is set up, the users work out of he same folder on their C drive for all projects (makes it difficult to sort things out when working on multiple projects at the same time).  I only wrote my macro because I came upon a program that would change the title bar text and remembered the post in the SolidWorks Discussion Forum (I remembered it posted here too but I could not find the thread).

My question to the rest of the forum members is: How many would like to see this built into SolidWorks?

Thanks for the star.  A star back to you for being able to keep track and find threads a lot easier than I will ever do.

SA

RE: Show Full File Path Of Active Doc' In SW TItle Bar

(OP)
"A star back to you for being able to keep track and find threads a lot easier than I will ever do."

Thanks ... perhaps you should write a search macro. lol

cheers

RE: Show Full File Path Of Active Doc' In SW TItle Bar

(OP)
I had already submitted an ER for a "Full file path in the title bar" option before you supplied the solution.

cheers

RE: Show Full File Path Of Active Doc' In SW TItle Bar

CorBlimeyLimey,

I do not think I have to write a macro, the search engine is not the problem.  It is more the search criteria I enter.

SA

RE: Show Full File Path Of Active Doc' In SW TItle Bar

Forgive me for my inability, but I'm unable to find that refernce in the SolidWorks Discussion Forum.

RE: Show Full File Path Of Active Doc' In SW TItle Bar

Thank you guys.  It turns out I had an account with one area of the forum site, but it wasn't valid for the swforums area for whatever reason.  So, I just registered and found it quickly enough.

BTW, I'm starting to build content on my own sw site (in my signature).  So far, it's mostly links and a few macros uploaded.  Any thoughts or opinions?

Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
http://sw.fcsuper.com/index.php

RE: Show Full File Path Of Active Doc' In SW TItle Bar

Taking this one step further, anyone know if it is possible to turn this data into a note on the drawing? It would be nice for us to be able to look at the drawing (On paper) and know where to find the electronic version. However, I am Macro-Illiterate.

RE: Show Full File Path Of Active Doc' In SW TItle Bar

It's much easier than that.  Put a note on your drawing template, sheet format, etc. that is linked to the properties SW-Folder Name and SW-File Name.

RE: Show Full File Path Of Active Doc' In SW TItle Bar

I was speaking with our VAR about the display path issue and one of their people wrote an add-on for me that actually works. I asled them if I could share it and thet said yes. I am not to sure though how to make it available, it is an install program. I f anyone out there wants it I would be happy to share - please forgive my ignorance on how to share it - I could probaly could research it - but just too busy.

SW 2007 SP 2
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
Windows XP PRO SP 2

RE: Show Full File Path Of Active Doc' In SW TItle Bar

How Do I Make Files Available For Download? ... No Emails Required:  FAQ559-1177

RE: Show Full File Path Of Active Doc' In SW TItle Bar

(OP)
Thanks pdelnet.

Does anyone know if this will (or does) conflict with the SolidAir/StefBoinon method?

cheers

RE: Show Full File Path Of Active Doc' In SW TItle Bar

CorBlimeyLimey,

I am just in the process of downloading the addin but I would think that a user would use one or the other and not both at the same time.

SA

RE: Show Full File Path Of Active Doc' In SW TItle Bar

(OP)
Just installed it and it works great. So have set up different shortcuts for both methods.

cheers

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