Renaming parts in an assembly?

You can use SolidWorks Explorer to call up the final assembly .sldasm (with that file closed in SWks), and change part names in the list in SWks Explorer.

Bo

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With the assembly open, open a part up in another window by right clicking on a part in the feature tree or the graphics window and selecting "open part". Save the part with the name you want. Close the part. Repeat process

Jerry Steiger Tripod Data Systems "take the garbage out, dear"

SWExplorer will do it and maintain the relationships between parts (if necessary), but I find it somewhat tedious.

CKrename is another way, save the upper assembly to the name you want, hen use CKrename to change all the part names at once. The downside to this is you have to tell SWX where every part is when you open the top assembly, it'll ask for each file when it can't find the old filename. The other downside is it'll loose any 'in context' relations.

Neither is way is what I'd consider 'ideal', one that would rename all the associated files at once *and* save any relations.

snipped-for-privacy@saic.com wrote:

It's a complete PITA, which I presume is perpetuated as an incentive to buy one of SWX's PDM offerings - at least, I presume they give this functionality.

John H

wc, If you use SWks Explorer, open an assembly and Edit/Copy Document, click "Copy Children", you can go part by part and rename into a new folder if you want (or leave the names the same).

The thing I would like is if an option were made to automatically save the assembly and children with a new suffix so the Machine.sldasm became something I want like MachineV2.sldasm, and likewise had all the children with the same "V2" suffix. This would save an incredible amount of time when doing preliminary designs where many iterations are tried before the final choice of the most acceptable concept is arrived at.

Bo

I am embarrassed to say, I failed to look hard and see that the option for me to put my own suffix is indeed already in the SWks Explorer dialog box.

That's what happens when I get in a groove and just go forward as usual without opening my eyes wider.

Bo