Hi
Does any of you have any idea how I write custom properties directly to SolidWorks files, without having to open them in SolidWorks first ???
Any help would be greatly appreciated...
SolidWorks API
Oct 20, 2004
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Get "dsofile.dll" frim
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, which gives you access document properties through the OS, without having to open the file. The bad news are:
1) you won't be able to access configuration-specific properties
2) some earlier messages on this group say it doesn't work with Win XP. Didn't try... Philippe Guglielmetti -
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Works with my XP Pro. Best Regards, Devon T. Sowell
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Works here too XP Pro
Corey
Thanks a lot... I'll have a go at it, as soon as possible... :-D
Any idea why?
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Yup : they are stored in different places. SW Files use the MS "OLE Structured storage" format, which has one specific location for file properties, then a structure of file-specific data. SW files have one block for each config, and config properties are stored in it, out of the reach of dsofile.dll... I used
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to investigate a bit on this. Philippe Guglielmetti -
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Were there copyrights on the dsofile.dll?
I wonder what it would take to edit it to be config specific.
Corey
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