updating all the configs at once 1

[moyesboy]

My part has a number of configs.
There are dimensions driven by equations and some equations are active in some configs and not others.

When I edit a part dimension that applied in all configs the configs do not update until I activate each config in turn.
Is this right?
Is there an "update everything and at least try to solve all the equations I gave you pretty please" button?

...i'm a bit alarmed to read in another thread:
"My guess is you will have to use one of the Super Ctrl-Q macros available" to achieve something that sounds quite similar. Is SLDWX really that dumb that we have to teach it to listen to what we already told it to do with a macro?!

(I have to run 2008 SP5 until my group update later in the year).

 

[handleman]

This is on purpose. If SW rebuilt everything from the ground up plus rebuilt every config every time you make some little change then your PC would drag. Try running that "Super CtrlQ" macro on a large assembly and you'll see what I mean. If you compounded this by rebuilding every config you would really complain about SW performance.

To address the completely and entirely different situation that you referenced, there are certain things that trigger SW to say "I need to rebuild this part/assy." Changing custom properties is not one of those things. That person was changing custom properties outside of SolidWorks, and without opening the file. When the file was reopened as part of a top-level assembly, a rebuild was not triggered, so the equations referencing the changed custom properties were not evaluated.

There are macros available (do a search) that will activate and rebuild every configuration in a document.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

 

[moyesboy]

Thanks Handleman.
When you suggest a search, am I googling or searching inside solidworks help?
I'm not sure if these macros are user created functionality or functionality in solidworks as standard.
Thanks.

 

[handleman]

Use the Google search on this forum. Something like:

Solidworks macro rebuild configurations

That search turned up this thread:

thread559-134210

Follow Stoker's advice on getting the macro from the API help.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

 

[moyesboy]

Thanks
I appear to have achieved this and saved the macro.
I didn't really know what I was doing, but it seems to work

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

The attached macro will rebuild the configs.

I'm not sure who to credit for the macro as it does not contain any author notes.