Tracking Part per sheet number
Tracking Part per sheet number
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I have been doing some searching to see if its possible to have a table reflect the sheet number that a part resides on. We use multiple sheets here and I was asked if there is a away to pull or track the location of a part within stack of sheets in Solidworks. Some of our drawings might have 50 sheets and instead of sifting through all those sheets to find which sheet contains which parts. It would be easier to have a table or even the BOM to pull those locations and place them in the table.
I want to say I have seen this before, but I don't know where at. I looked through Solidworks drawings and all the information is actually out there. The Properties of the view contains the part name so it can be searched that away, then the properties of the sheet contains the sheet number (of course if a drawing sheet was removed and added later the number of the sheets are incorrect per the tab, not the SW drawing info. The tab has to be manually renamed. That seems like a simple fix for SW to reuse sheet numbers... did you see this fcsuper?)
Anyone seen this or is doing something like this now... I think a Macro might do it, but it won't be automatic.
Kind Regards,
I want to say I have seen this before, but I don't know where at. I looked through Solidworks drawings and all the information is actually out there. The Properties of the view contains the part name so it can be searched that away, then the properties of the sheet contains the sheet number (of course if a drawing sheet was removed and added later the number of the sheets are incorrect per the tab, not the SW drawing info. The tab has to be manually renamed. That seems like a simple fix for SW to reuse sheet numbers... did you see this fcsuper?)
Anyone seen this or is doing something like this now... I think a Macro might do it, but it won't be automatic.
Kind Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP 
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RE: Tracking Part per sheet number
RE: Tracking Part per sheet number
I don't know if I have that much discipline to do it like that myself. Plus they are wanting something to be automated so the table updates if a sheet is removed the drawings change sheet numbers, etc... I think a macro is going to be the only way to get this information. But I am holding out for another solution.
Cheers,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
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RE: Tracking Part per sheet number
No table updates were required because the sheet data never changed.