SmartProperties Update Automation

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Hello!

In SMARTPROPERTIES, I made a SolidWorks variable property for the document name.

It works very well. But if I change the name of the document, the property will only update if I relaunch SmartProperties.

However, I make take-home compositions (with a change of document name) of assemblies comprising several hundred pieces.

So I'd like to know if there's an easier and less time-consuming way to refresh SmartProperties properties without having to open the room, open SmartProperties, accept, save the room,... and this for each piece.

Thanks in advance!  

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Hello

If you have SmartProperties you also have BatchProperties or INtegration to make bulk changes to properties.

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From memory, in our old smartproperties we had the same kind of property and we didn't have this problem.

I'll see if I find an old profile to load it and check.

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I had indeed thought about using BatchProperties and Integration.

These tools allow me to change a property, for example the name of the document. However, I have a lot of properties that follow depending on the name of the document. If I use these software, the links will not work, and all of my properties will not update (depending on the name of the document).

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After checking we didn't have the variable name of the part in the end.

My memory fails...

Otherwise one possibility is to create a rule in integration in order to launch and validate the smartproperties on all your rooms.

If you want, here's how to create the integration rule:

1- You launch integration

2-New rule (blank page icon)

3-add an action (name it Smart auto for example)

4-take the systematic condition in (defining a condition/solidworks and drag it into the Condition/And folder

5-Click on Definition of Operation/Miscellaneous/Launch of a Macro

And choose the SmartProperties 2014-Auto.swp macro  (in the mycad installation directory)

 

 

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Perfect, it works great!

I didn't know about the existence of this macro

Thank you very much!