NEW DRAWING TEMPLATE DOESNT KNOW IT'S NAME 3

[pdelnet]

I have created a template with the title block to our company standard, all the feilds are working, gathering property values from the model or assembly. The template has 3 ortho views, plus one iso view. When the part or assembly is inserted into the drawing and I select save, the drawing does not inherit the parts file name. Any suggestions...

SW 2005 SP3
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 [Display adapter]
Windows 2000 SP5

 

[ctopher]

Make the drawing title link to the part/assy file name.

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
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[pdelnet]

That's what I want to happen I think, the automatic naming of the file worked fine until I added the views to the template. Now the link is lost. I don't know how or where to add it, or what any other effects of adding the views to the template could be. I just dont want to have to type the name agian(for obvious reasons)

SW 2005 SP3
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 [Display adapter]
Windows 2000 SP5

 

[Standing]

On the template put in:

$PRPSHEET:"SW-File Name"


Bradley

 

[pdelnet]

Sorry my fault I guess I wasn't describing the problem clearly enough. - It has that($PRPSHEET:"SW-File Name"), the name of the part goes into the title block just fine, but when I select save the name of actual "file name" in the save as box is just Draw11.SLDDRW or what ever draw# is next in line. Thats the property that is not being inherited.

SW 2005 SP3.1
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 [Display adapter]
Windows 2000 SP5

 

[ctopher]

You can link the title to properties of either the dwg ot model. Select the correct link you want to see.

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
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[pdelnet]

Maybe it's the way I'm describing it or I just don't understand what you guys are saying. I'm new to SW so maybe it is me. I will try this once agian... when I select "make a drawing from part or assembly" I use the template I created that has all the attributes already entered into it. The drawing works and looks fine. When I select save from the main menu a dialogue box pops up. The dialogue box should have the name of the model already in the "File Name" line (this was the way it worked before I added the predefined views to the template) now it just has "Draw1.SLDDRW" for example. I can type in the correct name but I shouldn't have to. Somewhere something has caused this & I am lost as to why.

SW 2005 SP3.1
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 [Display adapter]
Windows 2000 SP5

 

[ctopher]

When you create a new dwg, as you described, the file will be called "Draw1.SLDDRW". It will not have the models file name. I have never this done.

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
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[pdelnet]

Wow, I have always had the name already in place in the dialogue box, the is the only time that this has happened to me. I can get it back by not having predefined views in the template, but thats the bug I want fixed.

SW 2005 SP3.1
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 [Display adapter]
Windows 2000 SP5

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

pdelnet ... me too! Create a part/assy, open a drawing, place views, do a save, name in 'File Name" field is automatically the same as the part/assy. Sorry, I don't know why your setup is not doing the same.


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[NHPilot]

Mine usually works that way also, although just a few weeks ago I had a drawing that would randomly display 'SW3' or 'SW7' as the drawing file name. Cntrl Q would temporarily fix it, but I would always notice that at some point the diplayed file name would revert to 'SW#' were '#' seemed to be a random number. If the file was opened as view only, or with the viewer, the drawing name never diplayed what it should. I ended up just typing in the drawing number and have since not run across this issue again.