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  1. sharester

    PropertyEditorGlobal

    In fact, I have just discovered it is much simpler. I feel like an eejit now! All I need to enter for the Weight field is "SW-Mass", the @@default@part1.sldprt isn't required. The only problem I have now is that the macro doesn't like speech marks and will fail when it is run. I don't know how...
  2. sharester

    PropertyEditorGlobal

    Excellent! """SW-Mass@" & partno & ".SLDPRT""" is exactly what I was needing. This will save me hours going through hundreds of files and fixing them manually. Thanks again Boilerbrad, have a star on me!
  3. sharester

    PropertyEditorGlobal

    I'm hoping someone here can help with me with an issue I'm having with this macro. I have a large number of part files (~200) that I wish to add the property named "Weight" to. The value for this will be the mass calculated by SolidWorks. The problem I'm having is that in defining the...
  4. sharester

    BOM - Grouping Sub-Assemblies?

    Hi all. I'm having a little trouble with a Bill of Materials. I am generating a BOM for a large machine which contains a few sub-assemblies. The problem is that the BOM is listing each component of the sub-assembly and its quantity, etc. I need the entry to just show the name of the...
  5. sharester

    Toolbox Part Descriptions

    Ahh! Found it! Perfect. I'll check this out more thoroughly tomorrow but this looks like it will do the trick. Thanks a lot DraftingMan and Updraft!!
  6. sharester

    Toolbox Part Descriptions

    DraftingMan, Thanks for your reply. I can't seem to find what you are referring to though, are these options in the side bar once you right click on the BOM table and select properties? Or is this in an excel based BOM table you are referring to? Cheers
  7. sharester

    Toolbox Part Descriptions

    Hi all. First post here after finding quite a few helpful posts in the past. I've been using Solidworks for roughly a year now and feel quite comfortable as I use it on a daily basis. There are a few things which have come up recently, however, which led me to sign up to this forum in search...
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