Link SolidWorks Part custom properties & Drawing file properties
Link SolidWorks Part custom properties & Drawing file properties
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I have a part file with 10 configurations & each of the configurations have their own configuration specific custom properties.
I have a drawing template with file custom property names depicting the configuration specific custom property names of the part.
When I make drawing from part, is there a way to link or automatically update the drawing file custom property values?
I checked in the pull down of "value/text expression" of the drawing file custom properties but couldn't find anything in them to link to the part properties!
I have a drawing template with file custom property names depicting the configuration specific custom property names of the part.
When I make drawing from part, is there a way to link or automatically update the drawing file custom property values?
I checked in the pull down of "value/text expression" of the drawing file custom properties but couldn't find anything in them to link to the part properties!






RE: Link SolidWorks Part custom properties & Drawing file properties
Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
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RE: Link SolidWorks Part custom properties & Drawing file properties
RE: Link SolidWorks Part custom properties & Drawing file properties
That was a very good tool.
But my intentions here is:
1. The drawing file properties should fill up automatically when a drawing for a part is created and avoid repition of filling same properties in 2 places (part config specific poperties and drawing file properties)
2. Have the drawing properties to be dynamic so that they update themselves whenever a change is made in the part file
I already have a drawing template with the property names defined in them.
If there are some equations/tool doing this it would be wonderful.
RE: Link SolidWorks Part custom properties & Drawing file properties
RE: Link SolidWorks Part custom properties & Drawing file properties
Chris
SolidWorks 08 0.0/PDMWorks 08
AutoCAD 06
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RE: Link SolidWorks Part custom properties & Drawing file properties
I encourage you to put in an enhancement request related to this feature in the hope that we will get it in a future version.
Eric
RE: Link SolidWorks Part custom properties & Drawing file properties
But here I want the drawing -> file -> properties -> custom -> values/text expression to be filled in automatically and be dynamic so that they reflect the property values entered in the part config specific properties.
If anyone has a linking equation/tool, it would be of great help.
RE: Link SolidWorks Part custom properties & Drawing file properties
So does it mean there is no solution at all for this at present and we have to wait for this option in the future SW versions!!
RE: Link SolidWorks Part custom properties & Drawing file properties
$PRPSHEET:"PROPERTY"
If you want to link to a value from the drawing, you link to:
$PRP:"PROPERTY"
Maybe I'm too simple to see what you are asking but it seems to me that is what you want.
RE: Link SolidWorks Part custom properties & Drawing file properties
Did you search through HELP? Do you see there what it is what you are looking for?
As with jwlynn64, maybe we don't understand what you need?
The suggestion above will get what you need, if understood correctly.
Chris
SolidWorks 08 0.0/PDMWorks 08
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 10-07-07)
ctopher's blog
RE: Link SolidWorks Part custom properties & Drawing file properties
He already has the linked annotations working in the drawing template, now he wants the drawing document properties to be populated from the part properties.
RE: Link SolidWorks Part custom properties & Drawing file properties
I perfectly understand the comments above, these are the links that we can provide in the notes.
If you open up a SW Drawing file, go to File->Properties->Custom, we get a table with "Property name", "Type", "Value/Text Expression" & "Evaluated Value". I want to link the "Value/Text Expression" to the Part Configuration Specific Custom Properties. Is this possible?
RE: Link SolidWorks Part custom properties & Drawing file properties
RE: Link SolidWorks Part custom properties & Drawing file properties
Thanks for macro. That will help a lot for now.
May be dynamic linking is a little much for the asking as I realize now that it would create confusion when a drawing is associated with more than 1 part. The Macro servers my need for now.
RK