Find and replace in tables in drawings
Find and replace in tables in drawings
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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.
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
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
Matt Lorono
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources & SolidWorks Legion
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RE: Find and replace in tables in drawings
fcsuper, I haven't worked with macros much, but I will look into that.
Thanks both of you for your help!