Custom Property Reader/Comparer

You can shift select the customer properties in SW, ctrl-c, and then paste into excel. That capability might be the first step up the food chain.

Diego

I have done that. But the problem there is that some documents might have different properties than others, or in a different order. It becomes quite a hassle.

But thanks for the suggestion though....

I just found "Property Lister for Assemblies" on

1. It will only do parts from a single assembly document. I would like to see a macro that will do only all open documents, whether that be parts, assemblies, or drawings (or any combination). Not the parts that they reference.
2. It does not bring in all of the properties. When I just tried it on a assembly, on a multi-config part it brought in only config. custom properties. There were some regular custom properties that were not on the config. properties that it ignored.
3. It brings in only the text expression, not the evaluated value. I have property values that link to the mass. It only brings in the linking text.

Any other suggestions????

Seth

I wrote one of these utilities that works as a VBA project in Excel. It will list custom properties for all SW files within a given directory. The limitations are: It doesn't retreive configuration specific properties. In its present form it doesn't look at drawings (but I could change that if you want)

You can get a copy here:

For a really useful application for managing custom properties check out Custom Property Propagator here:

Thanks Christopher.

This sounds like a better solution than the other one that I mentioned. But, I downloaded it and tried to use it and it wouldn't work. I followed the directions exactly, but got the following error:

Run-time error '429: ActiveX component can't create object

I tried it several times doing something slightly different each time to try to get it to work. But, I had no luck. Do you have any ideas what may be going on here?

Seth Renigar

Hi Seth,

Our "Gold Partner" product ToolWorks BOM Manager will enable you to overview all custom properties in an MS-Excel look-alike interface. All properties can be modified and changed from this interface also. Maybe this will help you.

You can download the 30 days trial and give it a try...

Tried it here with no problems. Make sure you do not have a file in the directory open or you will get an error.

Steve R

Sounds like all of the parts still need to be in an assembly for this to work... I could create a bogus assembly I guess. But this could be a hassle as oftain as I need to do this sort of thing.

Seth