We export a lot of our SolidWorks drawings into AutoCAD for use on our waterjet/plasma table. There's a note that we add to the drawings to give material information to our post processor. Here's our note:
16 DH60 ESAB Templates\DH60-006 rev - NOT VAULTED\DH60-006 rev - MATERIAL=A36 THICKNESS=.500 QUANTITY=1 CONFIGURATION=Default
The field I care about is the thickness field. Our practice has been to edit the note, move our cursor just after the "=", then click on a dimension on the drawing that represents the thickness. That still works just fine.
In SW2006, when this drawing was exported, the text came across as several mtext entities, one for each line. Now, in SW2007, the thickness line is exported as (2) mtext entities. Note that every other line is exported as a single entity, even in those cases where values are linked to part level properties. This screws up our post processor, which can't combine the two otherwise unrelated text entities to get the complete thickness note.
So, my question is: Is there some setting I can apply to make SW2007 SP3.1 export AutoCAD text entities like SW2006?
Thanks, Chris