SolidWorks VB-App Needed

Oct 25, 2005 4 Replies
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I am hurting for an SW App in a major way. Not sure if anyone has anything that can be given to me and modified to fit what I need, or if I am going to be stuck paying someone to do the programming for me. Either way, this is what I am needing.



What I need is an Application that will recursively check for a custom property inside SolidWorks files. If this custom property has a certain value, then a new custom property is created, added to that part, and given the value of the SolidWorks file name. ( $PRP:"SW-File Name" )



Can anyone point me in the right direction on the best way to get this accomplished?



Thnx



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G

The SW Task Scheduler has an 'Update Custom Properties' option that may do it.

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C

Look up DSOFile.dll on this NG using google. Read up on it and write the macro it really isn't that much coding.

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DSOFile will get the job done, but this is a windows operation and has been known to cause errors in custom properties. Your VAR would be the better choice as we have access to a programming tool from SolidWorks to perform this same operation without opening SolidWorks and the risk of damaging any files.

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What errors has it caused. I know it cannot make an edit if the file is opened or read only but that can be error handled. What else might go wrong.

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