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SolidWorks API - Pulling Evaulated Custom Property values

Does anyone know how to get the evaluated value from a custom propert to show in a text box instead of the linked solidworks' dimension pat after an engineer links the dimension to the property (a practice lot of us are doing at my work)

I have a field in a userform that shows the length of a part, but

when my user links that custom property to an actual dimension in th model, he will then see the solidworks pathway to that dimension i the user form text box, when, it would be much more useful to sho him what the value is (instead of the pathway)... like 6" fo example

I have a single picture that shows the solidworks properties interfac

and my userform and the problem I'm talking about. Link below

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Something interesting to me, is, when this data is eventually writte

to a BOM on a drawing, it pulls the evaluated property (6"), which more or less tells me it's storing that value somewhere

Thanks -d

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d.ortiz
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Typically, API returns the evaluated property, not the formula. In the past, I have tried in vain to do the opposite (extract the formula, not the evaluated value). I'm actually a bit surprised to see what you are showing.

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That70sTick

If anyone cares to know..

cPartQtyEval = Part.GetCustomInfoValue(Config.Name

"Length_Area_Assy") 'Grabs evaluated valu ' Where.. ' Part = Active SolidWorks Documen ' Config.Name = Active configuratio ' Length_Area_Assy = Custom Property field of interes

Pretty clean and simple. I was just using the wrong call

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d.ortiz

The opposite also is worth mentioning. If you have a program that performs calculations and need to show the resultant values on a drawing, it is very easy to programmatically set the custom property value and link that propety to text in a note.

Tony

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Tony

What call were you using before?

As I mentioned earlier, I have unsuccessfully tried in the past to get the unevaluated value.

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That70sTick

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