I was at a customer in Lima, Ohio yesterday, and they were still in the “implementation stages” of SolidWorks (setting up templates, BOMs, File Properties, etc.), but at the same time they also had users creating parts and drawings (for the past few weeks). They came up with a “new” custom property that they wanted to include in thier Part template, so we just added it to the template. GREAT for NEW parts, but what about all the EXISTING files!?!? Adding this property MANUALLY would take FOREVER !!
Thank goodness there is a TASK in TASK SCHEDULER called UPDATE CUSTOM PROPERTIES !!
(Start— All Programs—SolidWorks2009—SolidWorks2009SPXX—SolidWorks Tools—SolidWorks Task Scheduler)
ONE of the things it will let you do is ADD a NEW property to a whole DIRECTORY (or selection) of files all in ONE SHOT !!
AWESOME !
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What if you want to add different info to the property field for each file?
Does this just add the property field only?
This will ADD the PROPERTY and a VALUE for the property to each file.
If you wanted different VALUES for different files you would have to select “groups” of files for different values. If EVERY value would be different (like a part number or something) then this would NOT help.
A macro would have to be written for that…