Custom Properties 1

[vacuumdesigner]

Is anybody aware of a relatively painless way to redefine custom properties in a part or assembly file without having to go into each individual file?

Currently we are using a series of custom properties <Description1, Document number> and the like and I'd like to transfer our system over to as many of the stock formats as possible to integrate with PDMWorkgroups search capability. It looks like I can only use one of our custom properties and I need more searchability than that.

 

[handleman]

Check out PropaGator. Or, if you're decent with VBA, you can code your own using dsofile.

 

[fcsuper]

Here's some possibilities:

http://sw.fcsuper.com/index.php?name=UpDownload&req=viewdownloaddetails&lid=63

http://sw.fcsuper.com/index.php?name=UpDownload&req=viewdownloaddetails&lid=27

These are from:

http://www.lennyworks.com/solidworks/

Hope this helps.

Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA

http://sw.fcsuper.com/index.php

 

[vacuumdesigner]

These look like they'll work great, my only concern is whether or not I will lose the value of th property I'm changing.

If I have:

Document Number: XXXYY1

and I want to change it to

Document Name:

Will I keep the XXXYY1 ?

 

[dogarila]

You'll have to check and see.

Look also at Solidworks Task Scheduler.

 

[vacuumdesigner]

the one global Macro that fcsuper provided will keep the value when changing the property for custom properties, however I think it may be glitched for config specific data. But the tool does do what I want to do, thanks fcsuper.