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  1. dciadmin

    $DESCRIPTION in SW2006 ??

    thanks for the code dsheets05 ... I will certainly give it a try! Might be a fine workaround.
  2. dciadmin

    $DESCRIPTION in SW2006 ??

    Gupta: the $PRP@Description is for the custom properties field ... and that one I can get to work fine. Thanks for the input though. CorBlimeyLimey: Yeah, I figured it probably would work fine for the later versions because I checked online for help and got the $Description header from the...
  3. dciadmin

    $DESCRIPTION in SW2006 ??

    Hi Updraft .... I am ok with getting fields into the design table in general ... I just can't seem to figure out what the column header needs to be in order to fill out the description field. I just tried putting in a few configurations and filling in the description field and comments...
  4. dciadmin

    $DESCRIPTION in SW2006 ??

    Hi, Any way to use the design table to populate the properties of the configuration (configuration properties ... not the custom properties)? I tried using $DESCRIPTION but it did not work. It gave me a "Column heading $DESCRIPTION contains invalid keyword .. " error. I can load the...
  5. dciadmin

    Batch Print ..

    Thanks for the replies guys ... We are just starting to use the solidworks that we purchased a few years ago. We haven't quite figured out how we want to do things yet but this is the basic idea: -We are likely to have the files located in different directories so the batch program needs to...
  6. dciadmin

    Batch Print ..

    Hi, I am looking to batch print files from Solidworks 6. I have seen the solutions for using Task Scheduler and have seen a couple of the freeware programs available but they don't seem to do what I am looking to do ... I went to solidworks site and got their vb6 batch print example. It...
  7. dciadmin

    Open files Read-Only from the command line

    Hi, Is it possible to open a drawing file up read-only using the command line or script (AutoCad 2002)? I can choose read-only when using the dialog box but we often will use just the command line. Is there a specific command or variable to set before performing the open?
  8. dciadmin

    export "bounding box" coordinates of 3d solids

    Hi FH, Your code works great!! Thank you for writing it. I now can add a couple of columns to the excel file to calculate the overall size of my parts. I would only need to output the layer that each solid is on to the excel file so I know which solid is which. The idea is to draw each part...
  9. dciadmin

    export "bounding box" coordinates of 3d solids

    Hi, anybody know of a simple routine for autocad 2002 to export all of the coordinates for 3d solids in a drawing? I am able to select multiple 3d solids in the drawing and then do a "list" on them. This shows me the "Upper Bound x", Upper Bound Y", Upper Bound...
  10. dciadmin

    toolbar button to open a file

    Hi Cadkid, Thanks for the info ... I will try it out. I thought I must be going crazy. Seems like such a procedure as opening a drawing would be a simple thing to do with the buttons. Thanks again, dciadmin
  11. dciadmin

    toolbar button to open a file

    Can't seem to get this simple button to work for me. Need to have a button on the toolbar that will open a predetermined file. I have tried many different variations. Using AutoCad 2002. Basically just need to do this: ^c^c^cfiledia 0 open f:/adwg/test.dwg Any help on the syntax would be...

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