thread559-338986 Has anyone found 2

[Aliibalocch]

thread559-338986
Has anyone found a guaranteed method to change created by name in plane or feature properties?
Solidworks 2016

 

[handleman]

Re-model from scratch.

Convince someone at SolidWorks to please do it.

Other than that there is no way I know of. The thread you referenced is old. That method is no longer viable. SolidWorks has compressed/encrypted the storage structure of the files such that data is not stored as plain text strings any longer.

 

[Aliibalocch]

Many Thanks for information
I was trying with older method but it wasn't working.
Also,
Once Solidworks is installed on one user account its 'plane properties> created by: username' become permanent for all user accounts.
However 'feature properties> created by: username' will be changed for particular user.

Any method to change plane properties
Other than reinstalling... ?

 

[TheTick]

Trying to think of a reason one might want to do this that does not involve nefarious obfuscation.

 

[handleman]

A new part/drawing/assembly in SolidWorks always starts with a template. Whenever someone first installs SolidWorks, default templates get created. Because those templates contain the default planes (and a few other features), those features will appear to have been created by the original user.

You can create individualized templates for every user (I cannot imagine a scenario in which this pursuit would not be misguided) by closing SolidWorks and moving the original templates somewhere else. When the new user starts up SolidWorks, there should be a message that SolidWorks cannot find the templates and that they will be created. New templates will be created with planes that appear to have been created by the new user.

 

[Aliibalocch]

Thank you
it WORKED