Property Tab Builder
Property Tab Builder
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Buried in the SolidWorks Tools folder for SW '09 is a program called "Property Tab Builder." I played around with it a little today, and it seems like a pretty cool UI for your custom properties. Just wondering if anyone else is actually using it, and why SW hasn't advertised it's release as much as everything else. Any comments?






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2. I am using it right now but it can not have the same fuctionality as a VB program or macro. You can build some logic into it using the radio buttons and/or the checkbox controls. Use the "Date" type very carefully as it will not read an already existing date and it will change it. I ended up using simple textboxes instead of dates until SW comes up with an improvement to the way in handles the property tab bulder controls. Another shortcoming is with a property having the same name in global and configuration specific properties. In my case I have a property called "Material" set as a global custom property for made parts and as a configuration specific for purchase parts. I am using radio buttons to select which set of properties I am shown but once I define the material property as global it will not allow me to define material as a configuration specific. The work around is to open the created file with a text editor (like Notepad) and type in "Material" instead of the weird name you find there. Generally I think it is a good idea to open the property files with Notepad and verify what's in them.
3. For me the best thing of this new property tab is in assemblies as you click on a part it will show the properties of the part and it will allow you to see or change them right there.
4. If anybody is interested I can post my property tab files and my data excel file.
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Best.
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2008 SP 4.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer
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A star for for uploading files and referencing Hanna Barbera cartoons.
Best,
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2008 SP 4.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer
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You have done a good job.
I am sure,anybody can now build their own property tab with this example.
This is really a nice utility.
A star for you.
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Thanks CBL, you rock!
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2008 SP 4.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer
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Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group
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Regards,
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2008 SP 4.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer
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I put the files in the correct file path, and removed our properties tab files so they wouldn't interfere and re-started SW. Anybody else have this problem?
Flores
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I didn't try the excel version, the .txt files will work just fine with me. I know the excel file can hold all your info, but had bad experiences in the past with excel and SW playing together.
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2008 SP 4.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer
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A star for you.
Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2009 x64, SP2.0
PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
HP xw8600,
64-bit Windows Vista Business
Service Pack 1
Intel Xeon CPU, 3.00 GHz, 16 GB RAM, Virtual memory 166682 MB,
nVidia Quadro FX 4600 Driver 7.15.11.6956
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You need to edit all three .prp files with notepad (or any other editing program) and modify the file location to point to "your location." and save.
Hope this will work.
Thanks