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What do you think about a Confirmation BEEP?

Question asked by Dan Golthing on May 30, 2019
Latest reply on Jun 3, 2019 by Artem Taturevych

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Sometimes SolidWorks takes soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo,,,

long that it would be nice to have it have an audio signal when a command is complete. Is there any way to do this?

Artem Taturevych May 31, 2019 4:21 AM

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Hi Rob,

How about this one: Notify the completion of long running SOLIDWORKS command using SOLIDWORKS API

Thanks,

Artem

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Jim Wilkinson May 30, 2019 7:01 PM
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Yes, it is possible and you can assign different sounds for different events. See the enable sounds and configure sounds sections in this help topic:

2019 SOLIDWORKS Help - System Options - General

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- Dan Golthing @ Jim Wilkinson on May 30, 2019 7:52 PM
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  Thanks, what about when every command is finished? I'll try it if this blue circle ever stops.
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  - Jim Wilkinson @ Dan Golthing on May 30, 2019 8:19 PM
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    I wasn't at a computer, only on my cell when I responded so I couldn't look at the actual dialog. By the way, the Configure Sounds button brings up the standard Windows Sound dialog. Within that dialog, in the Program Events list, scroll down to the SolidWorks subsection where the specific SOLIDWORKS events are listed. Most events that can take a long time are available to assign a sound. However, there isn't the ability to assign a sound to "command complete" or something like that. I think that would be extremely annoying and would have to be more constrained yo be useful. Otherwise, do you really want a sound every time you draw a line, do zoom to fit, etc.? Perhaps the ability to assign a sound for Feature Creation/Edit Complete or something like that, assuming that is what you really want, since feature creation and editing can take some time. There is the ability to assign a sound to Rebuild Complete and I thought that sound might be played when a feature creation/edit is also completed since that is rebuilding the model; but unfortunately, it doesn't make the Rebuild Complete sound, even if children need to be rebuilt based on editing a feature. It only makes the sound if I rebuild/force rebuild the model.
    
    So, if you want sounds for "command complete", I would suggest submitting an enhancement request for one or more new events to be added for SOLIDWORKS events in the sound dialog and be specific as to the workflows/circumstances where it would be useful since again, having it generically applied for when all commands complete would likely be so annoying as to be useless. The product definition folks would need user input/examples as to the circumstances where it would useful.
    
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  - Rob Edwards @ Dan Golthing on May 31, 2019 2:21 AM
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    Dan Golthing wrote:
    
    Thanks, what about when every command is finished? I'll try it if this blue circle ever stops.
    Did it ever stop?
    You can only surf the forum and drink so much coffee hey?
    My input to an enhancement request would be this kicked in only after a user specified time..
    Heck - I had a long wait last week and I wouldn't want just an audible beep - but a text message / email.
    
    Maybe I could be uber cheeky and give a holler to master wizard Artem.
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    - Artem Taturevych @ Rob Edwards on May 31, 2019 4:21 AM
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      Hi Rob,
      
      How about this one: Notify the completion of long running SOLIDWORKS command using SOLIDWORKS API
      
      Thanks,
      Artem
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      - Dan Golthing @ Artem Taturevych on May 31, 2019 10:11 AM
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        Thanks everybody. I marked this correct even though I will need to figure it out. I rarely use macros. Looks like what I'm looking for!
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    - Dave Laban @ Rob Edwards on May 31, 2019 4:41 AM
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      Rob Edwards wrote:
      
      Heck - I had a long wait last week and I wouldn't want just an audible beep - but a text message / email.
      
      The technology for an email notification on task completion is present within Flow Simulation so I wouldn't have thought it would be too much of a stretch to drag it in to other bits of the software. That said, actually getting it to work always proved a touch problematic from what I remember!
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    - Dan Golthing @ Rob Edwards on May 31, 2019 10:23 AM
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      Rob, it finally stopped. Right now each command is taking around 10 minutes. It's imported geometry from a major automotive manufacturer. Massive files. Worse because on import if a body doesn't knit, then it turns into thousands of fragmented surfaces from these OEM body panels.
      
      Then I have to go in and click a bunch of unimportant surfaces, delete, wait ten minutes, repeat. All day yesterday. Starting again this morning.
      
      Would love to see them developing this stuff on their end. The surfacing is amazing.
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      - Frederick Law @ Dan Golthing on May 31, 2019 10:33 AM
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        Always like that with automotive parts.
        Some time the surface is 1 km long. So you can't see anything when zoom.
        Always lots of time to cleanup.
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Doug Seibel May 31, 2019 10:56 AM
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If it is an action that takes that dang long...I'd want it to send a text message when it's done. I'm not a fan of the beep.
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- Rob Edwards @ Doug Seibel on May 31, 2019 1:27 PM
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  Doug Seibel wrote:
  
  If it is an action that takes that dang long...I'd want it to send a text message when it's done. I'm not a fan of the beep.
  
  Not a text but I just sent my first email from Solidworks using Outlook!!
  I just googled and found the following code..
  
  Option Explicit Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks Dim outlookApp As Outlook.Application Dim outlookMail As Outlook.MailItem Sub main() Set outlookApp = New Outlook.Application Set outlookMail = outlookApp.CreateItem(olMailItem) With outlookMail .To = "bigflobrob@gmail.com" .CC = "" .BCC = "" .Subject = "Solidworks Notification" .BodyFormat = olFormatHTML .HTMLBody = "<p>Your tediously long task has finished." .Importance = olImportanceHigh .ReadReceiptRequested = False .Send End With Set outlookMail = Nothing Set outlookApp = Nothing End Sub
  Needs a bit of work for sure (gonna add it to Artem's code), but I'm well happy, didn't realise would be so easy.
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  - Artem Taturevych @ Rob Edwards on Jun 3, 2019 8:23 AM
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    Thanks for sharing code snippet, Rob
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Chris Saller May 31, 2019 1:29 PM
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I personally don't like beeps, or any sounds. I have my mobile phone always on mute. Sounds are annoying and distracting.
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Thomas Allsup May 31, 2019 1:39 PM
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I wrote an API many. many years ago to add a beep to certain long SolidWorks commands.

Here's the VBA code:

Beep
Pause = 0.250 ‘ Pause to 250 milliseconds
Start = Timer ' Set start time.
Do While Timer < Start + Pause
DoEvents ' Yield to other processes.
Loop
Beep

There's also notes on how to play a wave file.
Declare Function sndPlaySound32 Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "sndPlaySoundA" (ByVal lpszSoundName As String, ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long

Sub PlaySound()
Call sndPlaySound32("c:\solidworks.wav", 0)
End Sub

Call PlaySound

These all came from my 2008 one minute presentation:
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