Comments on: SolidWorks – Custom templates

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:19:15 +0000

Good stuff,

I have one, I am using SW 2008 sp5.

Page one is an assembly with a BOM.
The following pages are details of each part…
How can I get the part detail pages to show their quantities in the Title block?
(assuming there is only one assembly)
Thanks

By: Geller

Geller — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:59:09 +0000

thank you very much this is such a good thing for us beginners very detailed tutorials keep it up.

By: Crispijn

Crispijn — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:47:16 +0000

Yeah, I’ve got a new solution for that. This is a very old post with dated information. I’m confident that you has to store the information in the part or assembly, not in the drawing. You can get the information out of the part or assembly on your drawing. In this case you can easily change the drawing template/format.

I’ll make the new tutorial in a couple of weeks because I don’t have much time for that now!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:51:35 +0000

Nice tutorial.
I recent made new custom drawing templates. With refer to my custom .prtdot part template. When I open a new part with the custom part template and make a drawing of it, everything is OK.
However I have older solidworks part files and when I open them they still use the default prtdot file and the part properties are the default ones, so when making a drawing the properties are not embedded in the drawing file.
A work around is to open new part in a custom part template and insert an excisting part in it and save it under a different name of the excisting part. This way is not preferable when i.e. excisting assemblies are used.
Is there a smart way to let Solidworks prompt for the custom prtdot in stead of the default prtdot when opening an old file.

Kind regards

By: Arek

Arek — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:26:00 +0000

Somehow it doesn’t work for me, even though explanation is good. What it does is, it copies the entire text for example $PRP:”SW-Short Date” and that is what I have in the table, not a date. Maybe I am doing something wrong?
All I was looking for is to pulling some information into my title block in the drawing from a part that I made. Normally I make properties for every single part I make on my own, just by opening properties. I just wanted these properties to be put in the title block when I make my drawing, but nothing like that happens, I have to type them on my own, so when I make 50 drawings a day I have to repeat filling the title block 50 times.
Any help?

By: Agnaldo Trennepohl

Agnaldo Trennepohl — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:16:13 +0000

Yes, I got the way of conversion:
Data_desenho=FormatDateTime(swPart.SummaryInfo(swSumInfoCreateDate),vbShortDate)
I sought information from the summary of SolidWorks.
I hope this helps others.

By: Crispijn

Crispijn — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:09:24 +0000

Hi Agnaldo!

Do you already have your application running? I’m very curious to your solution!

Thanks in advance!

By: Agnaldo

Agnaldo — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:42:40 +0000

Yes, I want to create a form to fill the caption / format in Drawing.
If you know how to procure the conversion, please return.
Thank you.

By: Crispijn

Crispijn — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:35:10 +0000

I’ve no experiance with Visual Basic so I’m affraid I can’t help you. Why do you want to obtain the data/variables? Are you building a plugin for SolidWorks?

By: Agnaldo Trennepohl

Agnaldo Trennepohl — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:26:40 +0000

I want to convert the format of data obtained through the variable SolidWorks SW-Created Date w / the format day / month / year, how to proceed within Visual Basic??
Function in Visual Basic that returns the creation date of the file:
- Data_desenho = “$PRP:” & Chr(34) & “SW-Created Date” & Chr(34)