Some time ago I created custom sheet format and it seemed to become corrupt but I can't remove it from the list in solidworks, furthermore every time I accidently press the format an error message pops up and its duplicated in the list with "~$" before, the duplicate also being corrupt. Has anyone encountered this before or knows a fix?
Thomas
Open the folder in Windows Explorer and delete the files. They will have a drwdot extension.
Dwight
Forgot to mention in my original post, I have tried this. I deleted the original files a while back but the problem persists and now there is no evidence of the formats in the folder.
This happened years ago for me, thinking around 2003 - 2005 sometime and if I remember correctly there were multiple SW installs and our VAR had to clear the registry and then I had to redo the options and point the proper folder and templates....
Explorer tree looked like;
SolidWorks(1)
SolidWorks(2) etc....
Those files are special window files. Usually they are not visible in the windows explorer, you need to enable visibility through the explorer options. The sheetformat dialog always shows hidden system files.
This is not the issue, all over of the sheet formats are visible, including my other custom.
Have you tried copying your good files to a new folder, then pointing to this new folder at Tools > Options > File Locations > sheet formats? If that works you could try to go back and delete the entire folder that the old bad files are in.
This worked in the end, I would like to know where SW was getting the false formats from though.
Have you tried copying your good files to a new folder, then pointing to this new folder at Tools > Options > File Locations > sheet formats? If that works you could try to go back and delete the entire folder that the old bad files are in.