Part, Assembly and Drawing Templates

[rgrayclamps]

Is there a way that I can add a custom template (part/assembly/drawing) to a document to replace its default (old) template? At early days, my colleages were not familiar with SolidWork part/assembly/drawing template. So, they created a lot of documents with default templates coming with SolidWorks. Last year, I proposed template standards for my company, which work very nicely. Our current templates (part/assembly) are tied to drawing sheet format. Every time, we drop part or assembly models into a drawing sheet, the drawing title blocks are filled out automatically. We no longer enter info into title block manually.

But, my problem is that every time I need to revise old drawings, I have to recreate (enter) all the custom properties.

Thanks,

Alex

 

[rockguy]

There is a macro at the link below that copies solidWorks options and properties from one file to another. this might help you out.

http://swtools.cad.de/us_index.htm

 

[reswam]

Thank you Rockguy,
I also tried but when I tried to execute it is not functioning,siply VB is opening.What I have to do?

 

[aamoroso]

I use the Template Switch macro from this site, you have to edit the source file to show the location of your templates. Other then that it is pretty solid.

http://webpages.charter.net/mkikstra/SolidWorks.html