I'll try to explain the best I can what I need. We're running SW 2014. On our drawings, the customer wants us to print the drawings with the Drawing No = 'X'+Partnumber until design is approved. Once it is approved they want the official drawing package with the Drawing No on the drawings = just the Partnumber, to remove the 'X' in front of the partnumber. I am trying to figure out a way to do this mod via some type of batch mode for the hundreds of drawings.
I can think of two ways to do this. I can have two sheet formats (4 actually, because sheets 2,3 ... will have a different sheet format). On my sheet format, on the Drawing No block I can have "X" {} Partnumber, for the drawings that need the X. Then when I want the X removed, I can just reload a different sheet format without the X. However, I don't know how to batch process this, and multi sheet drawings might complicate this.
The other choice is to make a Custom Property called, say, DrawingNo, that I can make the same as part number or X+Partnumber. Again, I wouldn't know how to automate removing that X when the time comes. I know with the Task Scheduler I can bulk change a property to a fixed value for all, but I don't know how to MODIFY a property with task scheduler.
I hope I'm making sense. Is there a way to do this without writing macros?
Thanks!