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AlexB

In your drawing template, if you look at "Options -> Document Properties -> Detailing", there is a section for "Auto insert on view creation" that will put centerlines/centermarks based on your selections.

AlexB

On the first page of the setup, choose to not use an input card

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AlexB

If you right-click your view and select properties, can you verify that the "Linked to BOM" box is checked?

Edit: Is the BOM they are linked to also set to show indented detail numbering?

AlexB

It seems to stem from the inconsistencies within different programming languages themselves. Boolean (1 is true, 0 is false) vs. Variant_Bool (-1 is true, 0 is false) each seem to be used throughout the API and likely add-ins such as Dispatch or even PDM/Solidworks. I don't foresee this being someth...

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The only thing we are ever invoiced for is the license support renewal annually. This, as you mentioned, allows us to keep up to date with the latest service packs if desired as well as have access to the subscription-only license features (Solidworks CAM, etc.) I've never been invoiced for any addi...

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thank you for the batch, I was usually killing edmserver and explorer after checking if sldworks was in execution to avoid a registry overwrite when it closes. I will lookup the othet exes to better understand what they do. Do you think it is better to delete the whole vault folder and remake it? I...

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As a PDM Admin, we have used and plan to only use SW Desktop paired with our on-site PDM server(s). This solution is working as we need it, and the latency is basically 0. I don't see a reason to ever move to a cloud based solution. That would move the files out of our control, reduce connection spe...

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Try this. The variable "s" is your initial string.

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Dim substring As String
substring = Right(s, Len(s) - InStrRev(s, "-"))

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Monstrum Mathias wrote: ↑Fri Nov 22, 2024 2:09 am Impressive Sir, very impressive!
@AlexB We owe you several cold beers, should you ever come to Denmark.

Happy to help. And Denmark has been on the long list of places I'd like to visit

AlexB

Hi Alex Just out of curiosity, how does the macro in fact split? There doesn't seem to be any split-feature involved in the code. It does produce some strange results from time to time, like extra identically named split-bodies. Unfortunately it also seems to do a complete rebuilt renaming all face...

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I've not implemented it, but plan to get a test environment up and running that has the latest PDM and SW for testing purposes. It's probably going to be after the new year though since I'm behind on getting 2024 all tested.

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The reverse direction button was put in because there are scenarios where it tries to start splitting things in the wrong direction. I didn't make it smart enough to determine the direction itself but it's possible to do that. To set a default value, you can modify the form in the VBA editor to set ...

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I put something together as a proof of concept. It's still buggy and needs work but it shows about how this can function. I'm not going to have time to work on it for some time so it's here for anyone else that wants to tinker. There isn't currently an edit for the control, you'd have to delete and ...

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The feature between your unfold and fold where you add material by the bend is causing the issue. I'm not sure what to suggest though.

AlexB

What color is your border and title block? I don't have "Microsoft Print to PDF", but I think the last time I used it, many years back, it prints the border in gray, not black. If you go to edit your Sheet Format, you actually see that the line format for borders is black. I will test it ...

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Out of the box, I can't think of a good way to do this. However, there are a lot of possibilities with a custom PDM Add-In. You could create the logic in the add-in code and add a button to the card that the user can click to "refresh from database" to trigger it or even make it automatic ...

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I am looking into the print-to-pdf functionality and the only printer option I have is "Microsoft Print to PDF" and it doesn't give a lot of configuration options. However, it does print the filled hatched area the correct color.

AlexB

I could see this working as a macro feature, but that is probably one of the more complex things to develop with the API. My thought is that you could take the the starting face and the thickness as an input and it could copy/cut the body to create the desired features. This is certainly an interest...

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can work with ambiguity

a bit of a red flag imo

AlexB

Dwight wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2024 3:50 pm It is kind of slow...

I suppose it probably rebuilds between each delete, which is not really fun. The attached version listens for events to halt rebuild during deletion and only rebuilds once at the end.

AlexB

I don't necessarily see an issue with your macro, other than it operates the same as the delete dialog from within SW when you manually try to delete multiple things. The main issue is when you try to delete a feature and another feature that is dependent on the one being deleted. This, for whatever...

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I'm interested. I had not heard of this so I did some searching. I found this in PDM Help: https://help.solidworks.com/2019/English/EnterprisePDM/Admin/t_Creating_an_Import_Rule.htm?id=39beb8ab95fb49f890fa27b04432022a&_gl=1*43uoio*_up*MQ..*_ga*NTkzOTgwNDM0LjE3MjgzMDc1NzY.*_ga_XQJPQWHZHH*MTcyODM...

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woollyhayles wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2024 2:01 am I've got the task created in the admin tool in PDM but I'm unsure on how to modify it to get it to work as it fails every time during the transition. I'm guessing it needs some additional code but I'm unsure on what or how to add it. Thanks

Can you post the code that you're using?

AlexB

Hi there. This macro is perfect for what I need. Do you know how to modify it so that it can be used during a transition in Solidworks PDM? You would have to put that scripted code into a Task (using the SWTaskAddIn & PDM Professional). Then during your transition, you can add an action that tr...

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I don't know of anything free that would do this, but I do know that there's an add-in developed to aid in drawing creating called "Drew" by "CadBooster". It does a lot of automation for drawings based on pre-defined templates. Note: I am not affiliated with the company so this i...

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Since we are dropping Solidworks support .. I'll be watching this very closely because its the last one I will be able to get. I only have until Sept. 30th ** You have up to whatever service pack is released until you end your subscription service, whether you download and install it or not. Just g...

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I can reproduce this, however I don't really have any thoughts on how to remedy this without the use of Dispatch or another custom solution.

Edit: relevant KB article (not possible out of the box) https://support.3ds.com/knowledge-base/ ... 0000106127

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Whenever I have user with this issue, it's due to the Explorer recent files list. If the list is too long or contains PDM files/folders then for whatever reason it can hang the explorer.exe process. Try unchecking the options shown here and restarting your explorer.exe process from the task manager....

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Is there more of the macro available? When do you call this "IsCheckedOut" function?

I ran a test on my system and am getting the IEdmFile5.IsLocked to report as expected.

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But you're talking about drawings here, right? I don't need to transfer these to a new template. I just need to do this with parts and assemblies. Mostly parts, transferring model history (sketches, features, configurations, equations, etc.). Everything else is simple enough to fix manually, but th...

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I don't think it's necessarily impossible, but it may need to be tailored to your situation (as Deepak ( gupta9665 ) mentioned). The problems for me when I've run into this are with BOM tables and revision tables. It's difficult to update the formats of those if they've changed without just re-addin...

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doobes wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2024 8:58 am
I would like to see the macro if'n you can lay your hands on it.

cheers

I believe it's ModelRescaler in this list of Lenny's tools: http://www.lennyworks.com/solidworks/default.asp?ID=20

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... I'd like to try to 3D print up one of these to futz around with it. Trouble is the individual pieces are quite a bit larger than my printer. So I thought I would try scaling everything. ... Does your 3D print software offer scaling? I've been using GrabCAD Print and it's got a lot of post proce...

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If you're in an assembly, then you don't necessarily have to call OpenDoc#. You can likely just get the ModelDoc2 from each Component2 interface and manage the custom properties without having to open/activate each child document. If you manage to get some code together, I'm sure others in addition ...

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If you could show what this is supposed to attach to, that may help. It's difficult to picture what you're going for without knowing what it's intended application looks like.

AlexB

You'll want to edit your Sheet2 properties and un-check this box and change the reference drawing view to the parent one on the current page you want to use.

AlexB

The way that we brought our new servers online was to install everything fresh on them (SQL, PDM, etc.) I installed a blank vault view and then restored the SQL database from a production copy to the new server onto the blank vault view's table structure. This required that I modify a few tables in ...

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I may be misunderstanding by you mentioning replication, but if you mean what I think then that seems like an unnecessary complication. The only thing that would be doing for you is to replicate some files from the main archive as you've defined in your replication settings. Then when you want to us...

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I've seen this before too. The only thing I see in the KB is a bug report for 2023 sp3. So I'm assuming it probably hasn't been resolved.

AlexB

I wanted to post it to Github so that others could maintain/improve it as well, (for example, @PaoloG said you wanted to add some new features), making it a community project, but I don't know how to connect SW VBA editor to Github, it does not seem to support any kind of version control, and the ....

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Just for fun, I took one of our big assemblies and saved it as a step file. My PC has 64 GB of ram and it took about 20 minutes to open the 600Mb STEP file. There's got to be something else going on.

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I just discovered that it's a bit more difficult when the sketch entity is still directly atop of what it needs to be re-mated to and there's no way to temporarily drag it out of the way. Haven't quite figured that out yet... Yeah, there are some limitations. The main issues are when the "edge...

AlexB

Yes it's possible to repair relations. See the GIF below for how that works.

(You may have to click the GIF to get it to play)

AlexB

I'll echo what's been said already. The added latency of the connection from home as well as over VPN makes communication with PDM much slower. So, in addition to file transfers being slowed down, the SQL queries required for browsing the vault and making changes to files take much longer.

AlexB

I'm only able to sort of duplicate this. If I select a cell and then move to click the "play" button on the macro editor, it doesn't do anything. However I don't believe this is necessarily an issue with the macro execution and more the way focus is handled. If I select the cell, then clic...

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I don't know if this setting will affect a macro's output or not... But what do you have for this setting? image.png On mine, that setting saves out the files as 00_filename 01_filename 02_filename etc... and it doesn't use sheet name. So maybe it isn't related. UU It does need to be selected to &q...

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Hi AlexB, thanks for the link, Funnily enough I had been looking at that very page and trying to tweak the above code to pull through the vSheetName parts into my existing macro. It was after many fruitless attempts that actually led me here to get some help from someone who knows what they're doin...

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There's already a pretty good example on the api help site:
https://help.solidworks.com/2020/englis ... ple_VB.htm

AlexB

Unfortunately, there's not a way to dynamically change what a text box is pointing to. 1. The easiest solution would be to have a separate template that you could apply which has the text boxes linked to the alternate properties. 2. A more difficult solution in PDM could be to have the GA drawings i...

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Would changing your line to set the name to include an explicit cast like this make a difference? Dim mateFeature As Feature Set mateFeature = arrayMates(x) mateFeature.Name = Left(swComp.Name, InStr(swComp.Name, "-") - 1) & "+" & arrayMates(X).Name Edit: Casting is essen...

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