Oh, thank you. A straightforward solution, a little difficult to find.

I have generated a new task to generate a PDF to a location in the vault. For this, I have completed some "Source" and "Destination Variable" variables in the "File Card" tab of the task properties. "Number" "Revision" "Description" and &qu...

After testing this afternoon, checkboxes in a data card do not appear to be compatible with Yes/No variable type and a custom property set to Yes/No. I feel like I was able to get this to work before, but maybe the data type for the variable was Text in PDM. When I edit the data card in the File Exp...

@charlesculp The ghost of this issue has been around a long time. I only see a -1 value if using dispatch to set the variable. There is a hotfix I just noticed for this for 2023 sp5....and its labeled fixed in in 2024 sp1. My Dispatch script that checks this value is written to check both: image.pn...

Answering my own question. Checked one box and not the others on a test data card. Found it from the Preview tab showing the variables.
-1 is Yes, 0 is no.

I making some significant improvements to a PDM system. I know 10 years ago, using the variable type "Yes/No" was a mistake, because the different systems (Dispatch, PDM, Solidworks) used different values for what Yes/No means. One used 1,0, another -1,0, another "Yes" and "...

As for setting the page numbers, I now do it TWO ways. On Checkin, PDM will run a refresh on the page numbers. I also added a macro to do it, whenever someone adds a DCN to the drawing. So, I did it both ways, neither using custom property equations. The Dispatch is shown above, the VBA code is belo...

I hope that's an old pic you're using there for your profile... I've considered you somewhat of a colleauge for almost as many years as you look old in that pic. I updated my avatar for you. Funny story, I was at the grocery store with my daughter, who is 11, and we were getting a week's worth of g...

A bit late on this one, but I had the same issue and stumbled upon this. The command you are looking for is "SheetFormatVisible = True" which needs to be assigned to the current sheet. Option Explicit Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks Dim swDraw As SldWorks.DrawingDoc Dim currentsheet As SldW...

I hope that's an old pic you're using there for your profile... I've considered you somewhat of a colleauge for almost as many years as you look old in that pic. That was at least four haircuts ago. I had to get it trimmed when I started going on job interviews. It's all still there, though. The pi...

Yeah, the INT function is borked. You wouldn't be bothering with this at all if this SPR were addressed: SPR769752 - Ability to set certain drawing sheets to be ignored from total sheet count Nice, I will +1 that SPR. Nice to hear from you, Jason. Back doing engineering work again after a decade as...

Am I missing something? I am trying to add an extra sheet at the end of all drawings. Because it is not part of the drawing itself, I need the page count for the drawing to be less than the actual calculated page count. I tried to use an equation in the custom properties to make this happen. To do t...

Still looking for a surfacing expert.

It seems to be sporadic, but after flipping it back on forth on a few users, now it works consistently. Once set on any part, it will stay that way for all parts in the future, similar to a system setting. Strange UI.

matt wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:28 pm But they only show up when an item in the tree is selected. They disappear when it is deselected. Is that what you're talking about?

It seems that when I restart Solidworks, I have re-enable this feature. I would prefer for it to "always be on".

No, I'm not asking about fixing your broken relationship with your father figure, sorry about that. https://help.solidworks.com/2021/English/SolidWorks/sldworks/c_viewing_feature_relationships.htm https://help.solidworks.com/2021/English/SolidWorks/sldworks/rgo1467214184066.image These arrows that s...

Anyone using MBD, or adding you annotations in the 3D model?

A negative diameter!

Hey, anyone seen any fun dialog boxes?

"This file was last opened in 5430 minutes and 34 seconds."

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