Custom properties driven from Design Table

[JoeMoss]

I am having some problems getting my custom properties to load from my DT. When I set up my DT, I use $prp@OrderNumber, but when it load to the custom properties it goes into Configuration Specific, but not the standard Custom Properties.

I have not intentially setup any configuration in this model, but I am using Weldments, which appears to default to an "As Welded" and "As Machined" configs. My DT has Default <As Machined>. It errors out if I try to change it to Default <As Welded>.

Any ideas?
Thanks
Joe

 

[SolidAir]

You cannot set custom properties in the Custom tab from a design table.

I do not use design tables with weldments because of some stability problems I ran into awhile back.

SA

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Creating a Design Table
To create a design table, you define the names of the configurations you want to create, you specify the parameters you want to control, and you assign values for each parameter.[/b]

The whole purpose of a DT is to give an easy, "one-stop" place to control configs & their parameters (Configuration Specific properties). The "Custom Properties" apply "across the board" to all configs ... so the "one-stop" place for that is the File > Properties dialogue box.



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[JoeMoss]

I am using the DT as a portal to outside data. Maybe thats wrong, I am not sure. But what I am doing is importing data through a VB interface, dumping it into the DT (where there is some logic/equations going on) and driving the model.

If that locks me into configs, that fine, I will just work around it and always set it to the active config.

Thanks
joe

 

[handleman]

If you're already familiar with VB/VBA you can just write a macro to take the value from config-specific OrderNumber from the <As Machined> config and drop it in the overall OrderNumber.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

If you do what handleman suggests, you will also have to delete the "Config Specific" property, because they take precedence over the "Custom Properties".


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[SolidAir]

JoeMoss,

To expand on handleman's suggestion. While you cannot directly populate the Custom tab from a design table using SolidWorks built in functionality. If you really want to control it from the design table, you can do it indirectly by putting a macro in the design table so that it will populate the Custom tab. I would put it in the worksheet's before close event.

SA