SolidWorks 2010 Drawing Custom Property Question
SolidWorks 2010 Drawing Custom Property Question
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Hi all,
I am trying to set up a drawing custom property in order to make filling out my company's information intensive title block less time consuming. I have managed to create an acceptable template via Property Tab Builder that links to the designated places in the title block. However, I didn't realize at first that because it is a drawing custom property it would apply to ALL of my sheets within an assembly drawing (which makes complete sense now that I'm thinking about it). As my sheets do not each contain the same exact information (i.e. part name, part number, ect. for sub assemblies and parts), is there any way to use the same Custom Property template but be able to edit each sheet separately without it affecting other sheets? I realize that I may have to mod the tab to just include all the information that doesn't change sheet to sheet and manually edit the ones that do. I just want to make sure there is absolutely no other way to get my desired results.
Thanks!
-Allie
I am trying to set up a drawing custom property in order to make filling out my company's information intensive title block less time consuming. I have managed to create an acceptable template via Property Tab Builder that links to the designated places in the title block. However, I didn't realize at first that because it is a drawing custom property it would apply to ALL of my sheets within an assembly drawing (which makes complete sense now that I'm thinking about it). As my sheets do not each contain the same exact information (i.e. part name, part number, ect. for sub assemblies and parts), is there any way to use the same Custom Property template but be able to edit each sheet separately without it affecting other sheets? I realize that I may have to mod the tab to just include all the information that doesn't change sheet to sheet and manually edit the ones that do. I just want to make sure there is absolutely no other way to get my desired results.
Thanks!
-Allie






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@Updraft: Is there a formula needed in order to do it based off configurations or can it be done through the Property Tab Builder?
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-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)
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Good luck. Diego.
RE: SolidWorks 2010 Drawing Custom Property Question
RE: SolidWorks 2010 Drawing Custom Property Question
As an addendum to Diego's post, the title block info doesn't HAVE to come from the first view put on the sheet. Though it will do so by default, you can change which view the custom properties are pulled from in the sheet properties.
RE: SolidWorks 2010 Drawing Custom Property Question
-Allie
RE: SolidWorks 2010 Drawing Custom Property Question
scale
size
project
drafter
engineer
QA
These relate to the print and not the model.
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Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
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This is our standard here. Take a look at the attached and let me know what you think. I can upload some templates as well if you like to get started.
best,
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2010 SP 3.1
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RE: SolidWorks 2010 Drawing Custom Property Question
This is an excellent reference! For the most part, your standard is very similar to the standard I've been working on. The main issue I was having was realizing the difference between $PRP and $PRPSHEET. I've managed to create usable custom property templates for parts, assemblies, and drawings and now I'm working out any part referencing kinks I find. Seeing your example has helped me immensely.
RE: SolidWorks 2010 Drawing Custom Property Question
Want me to upload some template files?
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2010 SP 3.1
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
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RE: SolidWorks 2010 Drawing Custom Property Question
RE: SolidWorks 2010 Drawing Custom Property Question
Thanks for the star!
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2010 SP 3.1
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
RE: SolidWorks 2010 Drawing Custom Property Question
By setting this up in your Default Config when you create a new configuration it will have all of these properties. Properties being shared should go in normal Part Properties tab but something like Material or Weight should be a Config Specific value.
Forget the exact order but it should show as
PropertyName@@config-name@@Partname.prt
The config and Part name may be the reverse of above order.
In response to
and refering to Steve Martin's post
SteveMartin (Mechanical)
11 Nov 10 15:08 about $PRPSHEET:
You may also want to consider the Sheet Properties Dialog you get from Right Click Properrties on active sheet. There is an option to specify which view on a sheet to use as default model for properties.
From
http:/
Use custom property values from model shown in.[ ]
If more than one model is shown on the sheet and the drawing contains notes that are linked to custom properties of a model, select the view that contains the model whose properties you want to use.
If you do not specify otherwise, the properties of the model in the first view inserted into the sheet are used. See Linking Notes to Document Properties.
Michael
RE: SolidWorks 2010 Drawing Custom Property Question
Attached is a "B-SIZE" template
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
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Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
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RE: SolidWorks 2010 Drawing Custom Property Question
Attached is a "Part" template
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2010 SP 3.1
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
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nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
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RE: SolidWorks 2010 Drawing Custom Property Question
Just a FYI....there's a little difference between the files I just uploaded and the excel file I gave you the other day. Same method though.
Best,
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2010 SP 3.1
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
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RE: SolidWorks 2010 Drawing Custom Property Question
RE: SolidWorks 2010 Drawing Custom Property Question
Fyi, you might want to setup a signature with all your hardware and software versions. It helps us out helping you.
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2010 SP 3.1
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