Macro for open and save a file with different name

[akhtar07]

Greeting Guys,

I would like to generate a macro which will save a file with existing name and adding a suffix to it. The location of Save As should be the same for that folder.

E.g.

Suppose I want to save a file 84440-904, it is located in C:\Desktop\Folder
I want to save it as 84440-904-Alu in the same directory as given above.

I would really appreciate ur help on this guys, i have like 800 parts to rename and link drawings to them.

Warm regards,
Akhtar Aziz

 

[KevinDeSmet]

This is a perfect example of why a macro is never the solution to the problem and always seeks to fix the symptoms of the problem, in this case the necessity to rename over 800 parts and re-link the drawings.

Don't think I'm just a jerk though I honestly can't assist you writing the correct macro to do this task.

 

[drewmumaw]

@akhtar07
This thread has some good code to start with for creating a macro to do save as:
[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=347231[/url]

Check this post for re-linking drawing views:
[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=356588[/url]

There are several different ways to go about writing a macro to rename a large number of CATIA documents.



Regards,
Drew Mumaw

http://www.textsketcher.com/

http://www.drewmumaw.com/

 

[akhtar07]

hi drewmumaw,

that script looks really nice but it's having the same lacking ... I don't want to have some particular location for those files, I want to open them and macro saves it where it was before.

I did one macro for PDF, it auto-generates the PDF and closes the document as well but you have to set one particular path for that.

Can it be done like macro saves it where it was before?

Warm regards,
Akhtar Aziz