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  1. Fixturedesign

    Material Property

    SolidWorks 2010 SP4.0 XP64 For several years I have been using the SolidWorks material editor. I have my favorites set up so I can RMB in the feature tree and update materials on the fly. This has been working fine, until today when I made a slight modification to the settings. When you open...
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    Batch Process and Custom Macro

    I am looking for a macro that will allow me to select a directory, then run a given macro on all the files in that directory. Found this post ... http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=209635 But I am not sure what the macro is actually doing. I ran it and didn't see where it did anything...
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    How to add QTY property to each part in the assembly

    I am working for a company who still likes the old way of having the QTY of a part show up on the part drawing. They are also stuck with 2007 - they won't upgrade until their main customer does. So I am in a pickle. I've detailed all the parts in separate drawings. There is no way I can find...
  4. Fixturedesign

    Refresh Drawing Propereties

    I have a macro that assists with custom properties. After running the macro on a drawing, the properties are saved but the titleblock does not refresh. For instance, if I open drawing and change the "STATUS" property from "PRELIMINARY" to "RELEASED", my drawing still shows "PRELIMINARY" in the...
  5. Fixturedesign

    RAM Not Released

    I have been working ona project and with everything opened my laptop reports that SolidWorks 2008 is using approx. 800MB of RAM (system has 2GB). I close out all my files, leaving SolidWorks open, and my RAM for SolidWorks is still up around 800MB. After closing SolidWorks, the task manager...
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    BOM contents in 2008

    Where is the BOM contents window (SolidWorks 2008)? In 2007 you could use this to validate that all items have balloons.

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