we have a large project where we need to copy and reanming a large number of file
so for example a parts numbers is 100-000-001 - 100-000-099
now is copied and reanmed to 101-000-001
outside of SW explorer is there something better?
Using SW API and VB, if there is a set of rule(s) as to the rename process, this can be done.
Best Regards,
copy all the files to the diff dir.
and then simple open Dr.DOS prompt/window and type following
rename 100-000-0??.* 101-000-0??.*
Mike
Ryan Hay - SDSI wrote:
Hello Ryan,
We have a product, CopyWorks, which could solve your problem. CopyWorks is designed to copy assemblies and all related drawings to new location. All files can be renamed before copying either manually or automatically. The user interface of CopyWorks can be modified to your needs or different user cases. You can, for example, create user input fields for "customer", "project", "position", "part number" etc, and define that file names should be of form project-position-partnumber. Then you can use the input fields to fill in the mentioned custom properties in per-file or per-assembly basis. The file names are then automatically updated for each file. CopyWorks looks in the assembly folder and seeks for all drawings, then it will find out which drawing is related to which model. When the model is finally copied, all model and drawing references are updated, and voilá, you have a new assembly which has no references to the old assembly.
Please see our product description in
Kind regards, Heikki Leivo SolidWorks Support CadWorks OY
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