Old thread but I have tried to figure out little bit the same problem...why excluding from bom is not working...What I found is that ALL models need to be fully resolved, then it MIGHT work. So, there can be no lightweight or anything in use. Can't make it to work thought. EDIT, this seem to work (a...

Faster version. Closes after you press one of the 4 buttons.

Found this one, really cool and makes quite small files. Not free, but not expensive either:

finalmesh.com

We've used the "save as html" from edrawings of the sldasm or sldprt. I don't know what it is exactly but looks like it embeds the eModelViewer into an html file along with the 3D data as it loads in the browser just like edrawings. In our testing, quality is much better than 3Dpdf (it's ...

Composer SVG file might work without the need to download. There was a plugin available called COLORWAY but it is retired now I believe. Also check this one https://www.webrotate360.com/ Other option is to create 360° images of the model, and upload to the website. Composer is not that close to fre...

Hi, quite generic cad-guestion maybe, but since I'm using SW, I put it here. I would like to show 3D in web browser, similar to 3d-pdf or eDrawings, but in browser. There would be a link to file on website and when clicked, 3D-view opens to new browser tab without downloading it first. eDrawings - W...

Hi, nice version. Did not understand probably all of it because the language thought :-)

It's quite annoying that SW does not give any really good way to get those names and paths...and when you get annoyed, you go and automate the damn thing so you never have to worry again :-)

josh wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:18 pm The BOM will link to the configuration currently shown in that view, but there's no link to the view itself.

Well, I would say that there is no (permanent) link, since bom configuration does not change when view configuration changes, and that's annoying -> enhancement request

You are using CopyTree, right? It is probably possible to make a macro that uses CopyTree and takes care of config as well.

This is problem also without PDM, by default bom config should be tied to view config, but it's not...risky stuff. Same with Weldment Cutlists.

Any help:
https://help.solidworks.com/2023/Englis ... _VBNET.htm

check also this:
https://www.cati.com/blog/automatically ... prise-pdm/

For me, jumping from SW to Onshape is something that I would really like to do. But...most of my customers are using SW and I live in a small country, so there is not that many Onshape users so far. This kind of translator could be the answer or at least it could help a lot. I would like to see the ...

SW API has been always really open, so you can read the geometry, features, dimensions, custom properties etc. from the file and write it to what ever you want...nothing special there. If everything is going to be supported, it will be a huge work to maintain...and like Frederick mentioned, what if ...

Yuo have to add it to the vault, otherwise it stays as local file https://help.solidworks.com/2021/english/api/epdmapi/EPDM.Interop.epdm~EPDM.Interop.epdm.IEdmFolder8~AddFile2.html or https://help.solidworks.com/2021/english/api/epdmapi/epdm.interop.epdm~epdm.interop.epdm.iedmbatchadd~addfilefrompat...

You know how it is not possible to read part dimensions to Excel by using assembly design table. This does exactly that, so you can modify any dimension in any part in assembly. Also going to try to make this work with LibreOffice. Video: https://sloworks.fi/www/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/SWrw.mp4 D...

Just an idea...you could also do a check-in for the exported files...PDM has quite nice support for VBA

Hi, small addition to my macros/add-ins This one reads active documents folder, filename and both and you can copy them to clipboard. I use it often for example with "save as to not native format" or when I have to email the full path to someone. GetDamnPathAndName.swp All my SW-stuff and ...

That is a neat workaround. I might actually borrow the idea for my projects too. But as far as revisions go, I still don't know of any non-messy solution... Still think this would work: One common revision for file to handle saving/restoring to/from repository. And then "subrevisions" for...

Hmm. One common revision for file to handle saving/restoring to/from repository. And then "subrevisions" for configurations and when one of those change, also the common revision changes? What am I missing, seems too simple?

Hi, excellent stuff! Thanks! Couple ideas: 1. All of us do not use "2-level revisions". I mean, I would like to just have revisions like "A,B,C..." or "1,2,3...". Or at least revision should be written to 2 different custom properties, so I could use only the 1st part o...

Hi, no need to modify the code, just select correct SW-version (cell I1) Clipboard01.jpg Only reason that selection is there is that some of us have more than one SW-version installed on the same pc and then you want/need to define what version you want to use with SWie, otherwise you can use older ...

Hi, check out SWie:
https://sloworks.fi/muut/

Oh my gosh what an understatement! Trouble is we've had to use it for several years to figure out how to use it; it's the chicken and egg paradox. Nobody at our company had been around a file management system before. All any of us knew was how we use our files and nothing about PDM. VAR knows all ...

This mutli level where used gets very complicated if you have assemblies that are not using the latest version anywhere in the tree. You can select to show the where used for "all versions" of the first part, but after that each layer of where used is only for the version shown in the lis...

You could certainly write an add-in that pops up to the engineer a list of the where used items. Maybe you could go a step further and develop a check list program that the engineer must complete before they can submit the models for review. But there is nothing out of the box that does this.....no...

jcapriotti wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 1:28 pm It's the engineer's responsibility to check

If you can automate something, then do it...always avoid the risk to not remember something.

Hi. Let's say that we have an assy, x. Then we have products a, b and c that are all using x. X gets an update because of changes in product a. At this point, nobody remembers that also b and c are using x. B and c are messed up. There's probably some kind of manual "where used"- command i...

Maybe a sub forum for Freecad? It just got huge upgrade.

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Hi,
I have been running Synology for 11 years now. Second device in use. One broken HDD during that time...no data lost (raid). Really happy with it. Using it to backup 2 PC's etc.

SW runs quite nicely. 5yo laptop without the OpenGL 4.5 support (that SW21 uses)