Annoying issue 1

[bloodclot]

This is probably more of a rant than anything else but here goes. Does anyone else find it annoying that when you open a drawing (not the model) and print it then try to close it you get the "Save Changes" pop-up window when you have not made any changes. I have had to print a ton of drawings today and it gets old having to click that box everytime. Is there a setting that can be changed to avoid this "Save Changes" unless an actual change has been made?

Bloodclot

What do you see when the Pillsbury Dough Boy bends over?

Doughnuts

 

[TateJ]

faq559-716

That would annoy me too.

Windows XP / Logitech "Premium" Optical mouse
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.1 / SpaceBall 5000
Lava Lamp
www.Tate3d.com​

 

[boottmills]

I feel your pain! Unfortunately I have not found any setting to prevent this at all.

Boottmills
SW2006 SP3.0

 

[SBaugh]

No there is not a setting to change this, but if you are printing a lot of drawings and if you have Task scheduler, why don't you use that instead.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[StefanHamminga]

How about a save & close current document macro and corresponding button?

Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer/AI student

 

[nathonrose]

My idea, open the drawings as "View-Only". I just tested this (2006SP4.2) and it
1) Opens a heckuva lot faster, and
2) doesn't ask to save when you close.

Should save time and mouseclicks...if you don't want to go the task-scheduler route.

 

[SolidAir]

View only works if you remember to answer yes to updating all sheets before saving.

SA

 

[Simon205]

Quote:

"No there is not a setting to change this, but if you are printing a lot of drawings and if you have Task scheduler, why don't you use that instead"

Because Task Scheduler doesn't work!

I know that's a bit of an exaggeration, but every time I use it to try to print PDMWorks drgs it's a disaster - if only it worked as well as PAC4SWX.

 

[handleman]

I'm pretty sure a "close w/o save notify" type macro would be quite easy to cook up. Of course, you'd have to add a button to your toolbar to make it any fewer clicks. And you'd have to remember when to use it too.

 

[EEnd]

And when not to use it.

 

[bloodclot]

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. I have never used the task scheduler but I should give it a try. The macro idea, I like. I am going to investigate this further to see how it well it would work.

Thanks again to everyone,

Bloodclot

What do you see when the Pillsbury Dough Boy bends over?

Doughnuts

 

[handleman]

Here's the code:

Sub KillActiveDoc()
Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks
Set swApp = Application.SldWorks
swApp.CloseDoc (swApp.ActiveDoc.GetPathName)
End Sub

 

[bloodclot]

handleman

I assigned it to a new macro button and bam it works great. I gotta learn how to write code so I can come up with cool stuff like this!

Thanks again,
Bloodclot

What do you see when the Pillsbury Dough Boy bends over?

Doughnuts