ERROR!:Description3

[MikeHalloran]

Well, I've stuffed up something in a multisheet drawing file so that _some_ of the stuff stored in $PRPSHEET, whatever that is, doesn't show up on my screen. Instead, I get the error message above, for all but the first field in each record of .. linked appellations or whatever you call them.

Now, it gets really strange. My buddy David can open the file from his computer, and it looks fine to him, so the problem must be not in the file, but in my computer.

Huh?



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[JMirisola]

I'm going to grasp at a straw here...
'$PRPSHEET' is used to link custom properties from the view specified in your sheet properties. The error message makes me think that you may not be mapping to the correct sheet format and, because of this, SW doesn't know what view to use.
To that end, you guys are all mapped to the same template/sheet formats, right?

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP

http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog

Dell M90, Core2 Duo
4GB RAM
Nvidia 3500M

 

[MikeHalloran]

I dunno. The drawing file and the model files are on a common server. My installation is as new as I am to SW, two months or so, and was, er, bone stock as of this morning.

David, the local SW guru, then copied a bunch of locally customized drawing format templates onto my computer, and installed his own keystroke customizations.

David says he's seen this before, when, as you say, SW loses track of where the template file is. What he says he hasn't seen before is that the first field of each record, e.g. the first line of the title, shows up normally, but the other lines produce errors and don't display, only on my computer.

Maybe it will work better tomorrow. Thanks for the help.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Can you post one of the problem templates for us to look at?
faq559-1177

 

[MikeHalloran]

I'll try to synthesize a test case if David can't fix it. Thanks.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[josephv]

Hi Mike,

Could this be a permissions issue?

What if David logs on to your machine, do you still get this problem?

Perhaps you don't have the appropriate rights set up in Windows.

cheers,

Joseph

 

[KBeitel]

Mike,

I believe that Joseph is going in the right direction with permissions. The problem might be with your profile (windows login). I have seen this where one workstation is isolated with a problem that does not occur on all the other workstations. I second Joseph's recommendation of having David or another user with admin privileges to login to your workstation and follow the same steps to try and duplicate the problem. If you can not replicate the problem, copy what you need from your profile (ie My Documents, Favorites, etc.), delete & recreate a new profile for yourself.

Kevin

Take care & have fun!

Kevin
"Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something." - Thomas A. Edison

 

[MikeHalloran]

I have all the rights I need to royally screw up this machine.

I think the sequence of destruction went as follows:
- David made a model assembly, parts, and a 10-sheet drawing file.
- I redlined it on paper.
- David got reprioritized, so I did the corrections.
- I added a part to the assembly. When it came time to add properties to the part model file, the drop down list in File|Properties|Configuration Specific|Summary Information didn't have all the fields that were supposed to be there.
So I pressed the 'Edit List' button, which I am now told was a no-no. I typed in the property names and values, adapted as appropriate from another file.
- Everything appeared pretty much okay, until the next day, when the drawing file came up with errors everywhere.

The errors are all of the form:
ERROR!escription3
ERROR!escription4
ERROR!:Rev3
ERROR!:Rev3date
ERROR!:Rev3by
ERROR!:Rev3description

- I thought it was because my local copy of properties.txt in C:\Program Files\SolidWorks\lang\english\ had not been updated to include all the locally added fields, so I copied David's, which had ten extra lines, but does not include "Description3", Rev3, BendAllowance etc.
- I have searched the network drive and found a few files that do reference those properties, and the template files that David copied onto my machine do have references within them to properties that do not appear in properties.txt, so clearly I don't understand how the property mechanism works.


Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[MikeHalloran]

Okay, I'll try getting David to work it from here.


Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[MikeHalloran]

I logged out, David logged in at my computer.
The drawing at first displayed in the screwed up way it had for me, but by the time it had finished loading the tree, the display was okay and the drawing looked fine, with no displayed error messages.

So we called our Corporate IT guy, who logged in remotely as David and poked around. He says it is absolutely not a Windows permissions problem, because David doesn't have Admin rights. I do.

We logged out David, closed SW, and I logged in as me, and opened the drawing. When it was first displayed, it was okay, but by the time it had finished loading the tree, the errors were back.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

It just doesn't like you.

Create a new user with admin rights and re-try. If that works, recreate a new user profile as KBeitel suggested above.

 

[dogarila]

This is simply reading model properties into model drawing? It shouldn't have to do anything with admin rights. Is your drawing and David's drawing referencing the same model? Check also the spelling of the model properties.

 

[MikeHalloran]

Er, nope, that wasn't it.

<begin sheepish grin>

IF you have a drawing template file containing a predesignated ANNOTATION LINK,

AND you haven't selected and stored a matching Property Name in the part file,

AND nobody has written down How Things Are Done In This Furshlugginer Outfit,

AND you are THE NEW GUY and don't know squat about SW,

AND you accidentally check View|Annotation Link Errors,

THEN your drawing is covered with mysterious ERRORs that can't be reproduced by anyone else and you look even stupider than usual.

<grin has now inverted and teeth are bared>

Maybe it's a Room Stretcher kind of thing.

Sorry to have wasted your time.

Thanks for all the help.




Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA