×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

USING macro TO COMPARE DRAWINGS?

USING macro TO COMPARE DRAWINGS?

USING macro TO COMPARE DRAWINGS?

(OP)
Im, thinking about trying to create macro to compare to revisions of a drawings.

I plan to have the macro export all of the drawing properties (number of sheet, dimension names, value, notes, view names, etc.) for each revision to an array. Then compare the two arrays for differences. When the difference is found it would change item in the revised drawing to a different layer.

Has any one attempted to do something like this?
Or is this beyond the scope of VBA?

I feel a macro like this would cut our drawing checking time in half.



RE: USING macro TO COMPARE DRAWINGS?

Not much is beyond the scope of VBA.  Good luck!

RE: USING macro TO COMPARE DRAWINGS?

Have you looked at the "Drawing Compare" utility under the Tools menu?

Jason

SolidWorks 2007 SP3.1 on WinXP SP2

RE: USING macro TO COMPARE DRAWINGS?

(OP)
Yes,

I have looked at the drawing compare tool. However the drawings compare tool only compares the active sheets.
This is impracticle for my application all of our drawings have multiple sheets.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources