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Find and replace in tables in drawings

Find and replace in tables in drawings

Find and replace in tables in drawings

(OP)
In Microsoft Excel or Word, it's really easy to do a find and replace, and you can change all the times that your document says "Aluminum" to "Steel" really easily. I'm looking for a way to do that in tables in the Solidworks drawings.

I have reference tables on some of my drawings. These are not BOM tables, these are tables with other reference information. Sometimes something will change and I'll need to change the size or something listed in the table, and would need to change everytime it says 0100 to 0150 or something else like that. When I type "Control F" a "Find and Replace Detailing Text" box comes up, but it doesn't find any of the instances of 0100.

Is there any way to do this? It would make things go a lot quicker for me if I could find and replace all 10 or 20 or more times that the table says 0100, rather than double clicking each instance and typing it in.

Thanks.

RE: Find and replace in tables in drawings

If are using a SW General Table, make the contents of the cell
reference a property of the model. Any changes to that model property would be propagated to the table.

RE: Find and replace in tables in drawings

Access info inside of a table may be a limitation of the find replace function.  You may have to use a macro to traverse the table.

Matt Lorono
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources & SolidWorks Legion

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RE: Find and replace in tables in drawings

(OP)
CorBlimeyLimey, I'm not sure if doing model properties would work. Sometimes I'm revising a drawing that has already been done by someone else in the company, and it would be more work to make it a model property, rather than just typing manually. And given the information, I'm not sure that model properties would be best. But I will keep that in mind.

fcsuper, I haven't worked with macros much, but I will look into that.

Thanks both of you for your help!

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