Recent content by johand

Hello, What are the better softwares for creating intelligent P&ID's? database driven, item tagging, valve, instrument, linelist reports etc. Non-cad people need to be able to fill in meta-data that is reflected in the drawing. We're just fed up with Autocad P&ID (plant3D) and are looking for...

Indeed - Normally the data you use in a title block will come from file properties - either the model or the drawing. so i can't include data that is in an excel file? maybe a small vb script to get that data?

Hello, I have in my project folder an excel file with some data - "projectNr", "Engineer", etc... All dft par ans asm are in the same folder as the excel. When i make drafts, i want to include that excel data in my titleblock automatically - Is it possible? thx, Johan PS: i don't want to...

And is there a way to make a normal part act as a "pipe" or "pipe fitting", a way to let SE known that this part is in fact a "pipe" or "pipe fitting"?

Hello, Can someone tell me which property is used to define if a part is a "part", "pipe", "pipe fitting" of "frame member"? Can I add a custom property to our own parts library, so i can filter my partlist this way? Thx, Johan

If a bead (or more) is used in sheet metal, it won't use the bead to calculate the lengt of the flatten plate. How can we do this?

i don't know what you mean by "What if any drawing standards do you work too?" We use ISO for standard, but that has nothing to do i guess...?

we use now 1 draft for 1 part, but our manager wants us to investigate if its not better to collect all the parts of 1 assembly on 1 draft-file, but with different sheets... so all the draft are collected and stay together in 1 file.

thanks for your input. I will use author for this. Another question: is i have different sheets on a draft with differet parts on each sheet. on the backgroundsheet i have a titleblock with "title" of the part, but it show on all sheets the same. Can i access the variable from the part...

Is it possible to use "initials", set under "solid edge option - user profile" with property text?

I would like to see that the partlist could be generated only with parts that com from a "display configurations"

What are your opinions about this request? Service Request #2762 has been filed. Detailed description: Customer wants to use display configuration to control the BOM on the drawing Workflow: Our customer wants to use display configuration to control the content of a Bill Of Material on the...

Hello, i need a little bit of help. All our parts we use have a custom property called “Family Code”. Based on that Family Code, we need a macro. The macro runs in the Assembly environnement. It does the following steps: 1. Collect all the parts in de assembly (and sub assemblies) that have a...

be lucky that you can learn so many different softwares... For me the SE tutorials did the job. johan

Thanks for your input, but: The flexible asm file resides in a library so "...If you create alternate position assemblies, with the flanges in the required positions..." . We don't know the flange positions in advance. "...I tend to use a spline curve for the path of a flexible..." Can you...