relink custom properties to drawing view
relink custom properties to drawing view
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The title block of my drawing is filled by the custom propeties of the assembly (like everyone does). I deleted the model view and "reinserted" a model view now my title block is not linking to the new model view.
How do I relink the title block to my newly inserted model view.
thanks
How do I relink the title block to my newly inserted model view.
thanks
Grant
Applications Engineer
SW2008 SP 2.0
IBM InteliStation Pro M
Nvidia Quadro FX 3000
P4 3.4 GHz, 2GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0






RE: relink custom properties to drawing view
Per chance, do you have an empty view in you model that remained after you deleted the first view? Back before you could group text, I used to put all of my notes on an empty view so I could easily drag all of them. If I would delete all of my views (except the empty "note" view) I would lose my custom properties. None the less, this should fix your problem.
-Dustin
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Certified SolidWorks Professional
RE: relink custom properties to drawing view
Not everyone links values on a drawing directly to the model. There are pros and cons to linking drawing values to models. A company must weigh these before committing to one method or another.
Matt Lorono
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RE: relink custom properties to drawing view
No there was no empty view.
I was doing some 2D line drawing and thought oghh if I delete the model view it will speed up loading then when I'm done I'll just put it back in not realizing I broke the link... Was just me not thinking ahead.
Matt I miss spoke... "The title block of my drawing is filled by the custom propeties of the assembly (like some people do)."
I can't think of a con of doing this though. If I'm dispaying model X why wouldn't I want to display model X's custom prop's?
Care to discuss?
Thanks for you help.
Grant
Applications Engineer
SW2008 SP 2.0
IBM InteliStation Pro M
Nvidia Quadro FX 3000
P4 3.4 GHz, 2GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
RE: relink custom properties to drawing view
One thing I used too do, was have the Drawn_By property controlled from the model. I found out that the one modeling was not always the one drawing. I now keep Drawn_By property in the drawing only.
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RE: relink custom properties to drawing view
Grant
Applications Engineer
SW2008 SP 2.0
IBM InteliStation Pro M
Nvidia Quadro FX 3000
P4 3.4 GHz, 2GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
RE: relink custom properties to drawing view
There's a lot of rules that must be in place in order for a clean use of model properties directly on the drawing. Some peole call these good practices. I just call them rules because at the end of the day it's 6 one way and 1/2 a dozen another. For me, it's just a matter of having flexibility on how drawings are created and used.
Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group
RE: relink custom properties to drawing view
Now that I think about it it does waste time swaping back and forth from the model to the drawing to add a rev's. change dates etc.
I'll have to rethink how we do custom props around here.
Again thanks for your thoughts.
Grant
Applications Engineer
SW2008 SP 2.0
IBM InteliStation Pro M
Nvidia Quadro FX 3000
P4 3.4 GHz, 2GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
RE: relink custom properties to drawing view
Welcome. Also, I like your idea of having a different property used for modelled by and drawn by.
Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group
RE: relink custom properties to drawing view
Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2008 x64, SP3.0
PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
Dell XPS Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 5 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB,
nVidia Quadro FX 3400
Use SolidWorks BOM
e-mail is Lotus Notes
RE: relink custom properties to drawing view
Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group