Hello everybody
I have a few hopefully easy questions that I hope to get an answer for.
1. When I save a new part/assy solidworks names it to partnumber.sldprt. Is it possible to add part descripton to the filename? Say part number is 12345 and description is bracket, now I want to save the part as 12345-bracket.sldrpt not 12345.sldprt.
How do I rename all the old parts in my vault to names like 12345-bracket.sldprt? Now all the parts have only the partnumber as filename.
2. In our company we have standard machines that we customize for new customers. Whats the smartest way to customize a machine without changing anything in the standard machine folder? Should we use "copy tree" to a new project? If we use this, does all the references to the old assy dissapear and there will be a bunch of new parts in the new project folder?
Thanks in advance
1. You can't do this out of the box. You'll have to write an addin for a custom serial number. If you have alot of files to be renamed, you should wrte a program using the API to do this as well.
2. You could copy tree the top-level assembly for the machine with a new number. All of the references will still oint to the standard machine. Then replace any exisintg models in the new assembly with the custom ones.