Suppress Notifications in SW04 ?

[SWVB101]

Does ANYONE know a way to suppress Notifications in SW 2004?

We have a PDM system setup, and when A part is checked in, the Parts and Assemblies get copied to a shared network folder, for use in quick loading... So the only parts we need to check out, are the ones being changed...

There are 1000s & 1000s of Part Files in this Shared Network folder... And well over 500 people using using it.
(to get an idea of how many parts are there, I believe it is a 430 GB drive, and has 18 GB left)

Once the parts are copied to it, they become locked until the PDM copies over it with a New Revision... And only a handful of people have access to maintain the folder.

The problem is...
We have been using SW since 98...
A majority of the files out there were created by past verions of SW...

Sooo...
When you you open a drawing that includes an assembly of 20 parts, to change 1 part which you checked out...
You always get an error telling you the files are created by a previous version and will be Updated when saved...

But they don't get saved, because they are read only, so it POPS up every time you open a drawing...

Even if it did, I don't care about the notification, it's not like you have a choice anyway, if you can't save the upper level without saving the lower level parts...

This is especially annoying if you are like me, and go into explorer and select 2 to 10 drawings at a time and drag them onto SW to load them...
It would be nice if you could walk away and let them load... but the stupid notification pops up and makes you click it before it will continue loading the rest of the files...

So, CAN YOU disable this pointless notification, and if so... HOW??!!??

If possible... The ONLY MessageBoxes I want are critical errors... No Notifications, No Warnings, Just... "Hey This Is Why SW is Crashing..." (though I've never seen one of those either ;-))

If there is a way to do this with VB/VBA that I overlooked, please advise...

When dealing with computers, there are 10 things you need to know: one, zero, and the rest is Binary.
-Josh S

 

[SBaugh]

There is no way to stop this in SW. This is hard coded into SW.

You might look at some type of macro, but that's harder to make then it is to just push the enter key to OK it.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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[SWVB101]

Thanks for the reply...

That is what I thought too...

I might take this on as a project and see if there is any possible way, such as through sub classing, redirect messages and/or events...

If anyone finds anything in the mean time, please post, and I will do the same.

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Isn't there a way to Silently open files via Macro?
I wonder if I could capture the DragDrop event and open them with Silent mode as opposed to normal mode...

such as with the option: swOpenDocOptions_Silent

I know there are events that fire after you open a Document, but are there any that fire when a request to open is made, that could possibly be canceled...
Say if a macro intercepted and canceled the request, then used the programmatic OpenDoc with the silent option...

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If all else fails, I guess I can always write a macro to use a FileOpen Dialog with Multi Select enabled, then run OpenDoc on each returned File (given it is a solidworks Doc)

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Feel free to post ANY ideas... even if they are a little wild ;-)

I am curious as to what other possible methods could be used...

When dealing with computers, there are 10 things you need to know: one, zero, and the rest is Binary.
-Josh S

 

[aamoroso]

You can probably write or find on the internet a macro that will batch convert files to the current version. You can fire it up at the end of the day and when you come in the next day the files would be updated to the current version. I believe I have seen such macros, they will open and save a directory of solid models to update them to your new version.

 

[SWVB101]

yeah, they ran one of those...

But half did not get converted...

Plus, like I said, I don't have access to save the files...

And the people who do are in another state... (They get plenty of complaints about this)

Thanks for the reply though...

When dealing with computers, there are 10 things you need to know: one, zero, and the rest is Binary.
-Josh S