Free SolidWorks Add-In To Remind You To Eat Your Custom Properties
February 23, 2008
In spite of all their positive benefits, which are many, more than a few SolidWorks users look upon custom properties with the same disdain that a pre-schooler would have for green leafy vegetables. You can explain the benefits of custom properties, how they help you find things, how they lead to healthy drawing title blocks, how they improve PDM implementations, etc… until you are blue in the face and with some individuals you still won’t make a dent. There might be a change for a few days even a few weeks but inevitably you are back to files with no custom properties filled out.
In order to increase the life-expectancy of CAD administrators everywhere, I have posted a free .NET Add-In for SolidWorks that will “remind” your users to enter certain custom properties whenever they create a new file or save an existing one (after the initial save). The list of custom properties is configurable and
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Macros 301 - Generate Document Numbers From MS Access Database And Auto Insert Them Into New Documents
February 9, 2008
Father forgive me. It has been two weeks since my last blog post. I apologize everyone for the long interval but things have been crazy. In addition to some long nights at my day job, I am in the process of releasing a new version of InspectionXpert, the Quality Inspection Sheet generating software from my company Extensible CAD. It is a rewarding endeavor but also very demanding.
Anyways… not so long ago I posted a Macro & tutorial on how to register for SolidWorks events. One application of that technique that I mentioned was to automatically generate document numbers for your SolidWorks document and insert them into SolidWorks “auto-magically.” Well, not too long thereafter I was bombarded with emails asking me to post that little Macro and I promised to do so. This post is the fullfillment of that promise. I’m sorry it took so long but I think you guys will like it. I feel it is “auto-magically delicious” myself : )
You can download the database and the macro from here.
Keep reading to see a flash video of the macro in action…
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