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Rename folder and fix references?

I think the answer is no, but I'll ask anyway.

All of our SolidWorks files are saved inside a 'master' folder on the network. Within that folder are client subfolders. Within the client subfolders are project subfolders, with all SW files (parts/assemblies/drawings) for a project residing in the project subfolder. Occasionally we'll reference files across project folders.

I'd like to rename the master folder. For the bulk of our files, this will not harm a thing, as the references will fix themselves (since they're contained within a subfolder). But, references between project folders will be broken and will need manually fixed.

Is there a way to traverse through a set of file references and change every instance of a folder name to the new folder name (thus fixing all references)? I imagine it as a sort of 'find and replace' function in the references. Otherwise, we'll have to fix these as we find them. These cross-folder references only exist in a small percentage of our files, but I'd rather fix them myself than rely on the drafting group to fix them as they find them.

Can it be done, in SW or SW Explorer or some custom program? Let me know if so. Thanks,

Brian

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Brian Mears
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If I understand you to be saying that you are moving the root of the tree so to speak then you should have no problems if you do two things:

In TOOLS/OPTIONS/FILE NAMES/REFERENCES point to the root of the new (identical) tree of folders.

Then in TOOLS/OPTIONS/EXTERNAL REFERENCES turn on Search External References. Also check open referenced files read only and don't promt to save read only files.

What SW will then do is be forced to recursively look up references in the folder tree named in REFERENCES. We do this all the time by having two identical folder trees, one a vault and the other for working files.

You can look up the External Reference search procedure > I think the answer is no, but I'll ask anyway.

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This will work only if only the top folder's name is changed.

For a similar situation file post-fixes didn't get updated and I used this code to modify the names of the file references to reflect the post-fix. Anyway with a little modification it could suit your needs.

Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks Dim fs As New FileSystemObject Dim Folder As Scripting.Folder Dim File As Scripting.File Sub main()

Set swApp = Application.SldWorks Set Folder = fs.GetFolder("PathTOFolderGettingUpdated") Dim c As Long c = 1 For c = 1 To Folder.Files.Count File = Folder.Files.Item(c) If InStr(1, VBA.UCase(fs.GetExtensionName(File.Path)), UCase("sld"), vbTextCompare) > 0 Then ModifyRefs (File.Path) End If Next

End Sub

Public Sub ModifyRefs(ByVal Path As String) Dim Refs As Variant Dim i As Variant Dim c As Long Dim OrigVal As String Refs = swApp.GetDocumentDependencies2(Path, False, True, False) c = 1 If IsArray(Refs) Then For c = 1 To UBound(Refs) Step 2 i = Refs(c) OrigVal = i i = Replace(i, "\\", "\", Compare:=vbTextCompare) If InStr(1, i, " onsite.", vbTextCompare) = 0 Then i = Replace(i, ".sld", " onsite.sld", Compare:=vbTextCompare) End If If i OrigVal Then swApp.ReplaceReferencedDocument Path, OrigVal, i End If Next End If End Sub

T> If I understand you to be saying that you are moving the root of the

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