Drawing Description-Custom Properties 3

[macduff]

I thought I did a thread on this before, but didn't find anything. Is there a way for parts and assemblies descriptions to drive the drawing descriptions? Every time I fill in the description for a part or an assembly and make a drawing, I have to re-fill in the description again for the drawing. Why is that? A drawing is linked to that part or assembly. Why not have the description linked? When you save the drawing the first time, the part or assembly no. is filled in automatically when saving. So, why not have the description fill in automatically?

Thanks,


Macduff
Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2006 SP 4.1
Dell 380 XP Pro SP 2
nVida Quadro FX 3450/4000

 

[smcadman]

Off topic for the original question, but as for 1 part per drawing:
We use 1 model (part or assembly) per drawing. Too bad this site has a way for quick polls.

On a side note, if you did have multiple parts on a sheet, right-click the drawing > Properties > on bottom "Use custom property values from model shown in" > if not default, pick view from drop-down list.





Flores
SW06 SP4.1

 

[GTCadGuy]

I have created links to part properties in drawings in the past. If you follow Shaggy18VW suggestions it works fine. Then delete the part from the sheet and save this as a new drawing template (.drwdot). Each time you create a new drawing using this template, the template will pull in the customer prop's that you specified in the part.

SolidWorks 2006 - SP3.0
UG NX3
Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Shaggy18VW and GTCadGuy ... The original question was how to link a parts property to a drawing file property, not how to link the parts properties to a note on a drawing.

To clarify ... Open a drawing. Go to File > Properties > Custom. Under Property Name select Description, under Type accept Text, under Value / Text Expression enter ????

There is no direct way to associatively link that value/text to a part property.

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[macduff]

Folks,
I'll submit an enhancement request for this. I appreciate everyone’s time on this thread.

Kind Regards,

Macduff
Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2006 SP 4.1
Dell 380 XP Pro SP 2
nVida Quadro FX 3450/4000

 

[ctopher]

You're welcome.
If you still have issues, please show a screen shot of it so we can better understand what is going on.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
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[fcsuper]

"I think many of us have a problem with your statement that "most mechanical engineering environments have multiple parts on a detail". To broad a statement.... "

Well, I was responding to another generality. Don't two generalities make a specification? LOL

 

[ctopher]

That would be spec ASME-GEN-2007.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
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[gwubs]

We do one part per drawing - one assembly per drawing. Every part and assembly can stand on its own, without ever conflicting with other drawings. Part drawings never deal with quantity, or where used - we call parts and subassemblies from assemblies. No errors, no ambiguity. A bit more work, but BOM's become very cut and dried.

 

[8Complex]

I had this exact same issue 3-4 weeks back. You can't link the value that the BOM uses for "Part Number" in the title block unless you're using something other then the default location to put the part number.

I had to switch our entire department over from that method to actually filling out a "Part Number" field in the configuration-specific file properties. You can then link this property in the drawings easily, and change the BOM over to link to that as well. My company has a macro to change file properties, so it was a fairly easy transition.