Retrieve Custom Properties Silently?

[engAlright]

Does anyone have any ideas as to how you could, through the API, retrieve custom properties from a part or assembly when that part or assembly isn't open?

 

[rockguy]

Macro? Run it throught the task scheduler?

 

[TheTick]

It can be done through API (macro, VB, C++). To access properties in VB (and macros), you need the DSOfile component, which can be downloaded from Microsoft.

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[dogarila]

From previous threads on the subject I learned you cannot access CUSTOM properties and configuration specific properties without opening the file.

 

[rocheey]

>>From previous threads on the subject I
learned you cannot access CUSTOM properties and configuration specific properties without opening the file.

Its actually possible, but its by no means automatic. Other applications do it; it's more a matter of how many months of development you are willing to put into it.

I do it on a daily basis for a few config-specific variables that are in every company .sldprt