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  1. harlowmatt

    Need help with macro

    Here is a breakdown of what I did. I did a google search for a macro that would extract the table from my catia drawing and put it in to excel. Then i opened a drawing and went to tools-macros-macros. Then created a new macro and pasted the above macro into the macro field. Clicked ok-close...
  2. harlowmatt

    Need help with macro

    Hi Ferdo, We are using v5-6 R2018
  3. harlowmatt

    Need help with macro

    Hi all, I have the following macro to convert a BOM table in a catdrawing to a Excel spread sheet but it gets hung up at line 6 "Dim drwdoc As Document". i would greatly appreciate any help. my knowledge of macros is VERY basic and limited. Sub TableToExcel() '\\Global Declarations Dim...
  4. harlowmatt

    Top Level Assembly Parameters

    Hi all, Is there a way to link a parameter on the top level of an assembly with a constraint such as an offset constraint or angle constraint on a sub-assembly so that you do not have to dig down to the sub-assembly to change the offset value? Also, same question about a top level assembly...
  5. harlowmatt

    No "Generative view style" toolbar

    Hi guys, When I create a new front/unfolded/view from 3d view in my drafting workbench the "Generative view style" toolbar does not automatically appear even though I have "Prevent generative view style usage" deselected. I've been trying to figure this out for a couple of days now to no avail...
  6. harlowmatt

    VIEW CROSS REFERENCE IDENTIFIER MACRO HELP

    Hi all, does anyone have or could help me with a VIEW CROSS REFERENCE IDENTIFIER MACRO. I would like to be able to have it so that you put in the sheet number(top box) and zone(bottom box) using either a single message box or a message box for each one. would also like it to be appropriately...
  7. harlowmatt

    MISSING VIEW NAME IN TREE IN DRAFTING WORKBENCH

    GOT IT FIXED. For some reason his CATIA wasn't liking his CATView.Nls file after we modified it to make the view names all capitalized to be the same as mine. We replaced it with mine and it WORKS! Thanks guys!
  8. harlowmatt

    MISSING VIEW NAME IN TREE IN DRAFTING WORKBENCH

    rickyt, It does this on bot new drawings and existing drawings. He and I can open the same file and mine will be fine but his will be missing the view names in the tree, the face of the drawing, and the view properties. He can type the view name in to the VIEW NAME WITH FORMULA box in the view...
  9. harlowmatt

    MISSING VIEW NAME IN TREE IN DRAFTING WORKBENCH

    Hi All, My co-worker is missing the view name in the tree and on the drawing in the drafting workbench. In the TOOLS-OPTIONS-DRAFTING-LAYOUT VIEW NAME, SCALE FACTOR, AND VIEW FRAME are all selected. When going to the individual view properties under VIEW tab VIEW NAME boxes are empty. All I can...
  10. harlowmatt

    VBA active part file name

    Hi Everyone, I am lacking knowledge in the macro writing department. Currently our title block displays "XXX" as the customer model name. I would like for it the display the name of the file where the views in the drawing are coming from. could I get help with this? thanks.
  11. harlowmatt

    Titleblock grid macro modification

    Rangrao, the screen shot of mine that you used has information that I deleted. with our facility being ITAR CONTROLLED, all the fields are links, and our company logo linked to it I would have to go in and do quite a bit of modification to the macro. at this time I unable to spend that kind of...
  12. harlowmatt

    Titleblock grid macro modification

    GREAT! got it working like I want now. thanks Marc.
  13. harlowmatt

    Titleblock grid macro modification

    In otherwords I need the numbers to read right to left and the letters to read bottom to top. thanks.
  14. harlowmatt

    Titleblock grid macro modification

    Marc, this is great! but I still need "1" & "A" to be in the bottom right.
  15. harlowmatt

    Titleblock grid macro modification

    Where you see the zone identifiers around the outside of the titleblock I would like the numbers to be on the top and bottom instead of letters and the letters to be on the left and right side instead of...
  16. harlowmatt

    Titleblock grid macro modification

    Hi everyone, currently our titleblock has the letters at the top and bottom and the numbers at the left and right. I am wanting to reverse this. I am new to the macro game and am struggling to do this. attached is what I believe is the section of the titleblock macro for the grid numbers and...
  17. harlowmatt

    generate date and name in drawing table

    Thank you Little Cthulhu, I was afraid of that.[sad]
  18. harlowmatt

    generate date and name in drawing table

    Hi everyone, Is there a way to have the current date and current user automatically generate in a table cell when the drawing is opened? I am unable to figure out how to do this using attribute links. Any help is greatly appreciated. thank you.
  19. harlowmatt

    Equal Spaces Symbol

    Hi Everyone, Since CATIA does not have an "equal spaces" symbol(letter "S" with "=" through it)I am trying to add one to the engineering symbols. I am having trouble finding a font that has this type of symbol. Can anyone help?
  20. harlowmatt

    POINT EXTRACTION HELP

    Hi all, I'm looking for some help extracting 3d points and exporting to excel. I want to be able to select the geoset and axis to use to get my x,y,z coords. can anyone help? I have done a bit of searching on the web and can't seem to find anything that works for me. I haven't learned the...

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