Custom Properties Drop down 5

[tristram]

I am in the process of adding custom properties to our starter templates and wanted to know how to populate the drop down box on the value field to have a few selections for the users to pick from.
We are currently running SW 2008 sp3.0

-Joe
SolidWorks 2008 x64 SP 3.0 on Windows XP x64
Dell Percision 490
Intel Xeon 5160 @ 3.00Hz (Duel Core)
8 GB RAM - Nvidia Quadro FX1700 (6.14.11.6262)

 

[fcsuper]

dogarila,

Being added to the FeatureManager pane is something you can add to your macro. You can look it up under the API help if no one else responses here. I personally don't like using the FeatureManager pane for this type of macros. I've used a custom macro similar to the one uploaded here:

http://sw.fcsuper.com/index.php?name=UpDownload&req=viewdownloaddetails&lid=7

Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group

 

[tristram]

Thanks everyone, The Macros worked perfectly.

-Joe
SolidWorks 2008 x64 SP 3.0 on Windows XP x64
Dell Percision 490
Intel Xeon 5160 @ 3.00Hz (Duel Core)
8 GB RAM - Nvidia Quadro FX1700 (6.14.11.6262)

 

[CADGemini]

Which one did you end up using? Just curious.....

Best Regards,
Jon Knabenschuh

Gemini CAD Solutions

http://www.geminicadworks.com

Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Solidworks 2007

 

[smcadman]

CADGemini, a star for you. I have recommended the macro from Lenny for around 3 years on here because it is free and easy to use.

I like the interface from GoEngineer's macro better.

It is similar to the one from this site:

http://www.swcp3.com/

but we didn't use it because you cannot have a space between the property names. For example we use "Modeled Date" and others choke on that blank space between the words.


Flores

 

[tristram]

CADGemini I used the one you suggested from Go Engineer.


-Joe
SolidWorks 2008 x64 SP 3.0 on Windows XP x64
Dell Percision 490
Intel Xeon 5160 @ 3.00Hz (Duel Core)
8 GB RAM - Nvidia Quadro FX1700 (6.14.11.6262)

 

[fcsuper]

The null value issue is the same problem with the SW built-in custom properties manager. It doesn't let you keep a custom property that has no value at all. Custom property managers do a much better job of dealing with this. SW allows custom properties with null values, so I don't know why the built-in such a limitation to their custom property mananger.

Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group

 

[CADGemini]

Matt,

You could just enter a space for the properties that have no value. I guess this is a workaround but your right they should be able to accept no value at all.

Your users will also have to remember to backspace before typing in values otherwise when they are imported into the drawing things could be off by a space.

Best Regards,
Jon Knabenschuh

Gemini CAD Solutions

http://www.geminicadworks.com

Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Solidworks 2007

 

[dogarila]

Thanks Matt, I found that info in the SW API help.