OK
You want there to be the same properties of the new pieces on your old pieces.
What I understood, you use the "Customize Property" (right); a form; to add your new properties!
Is that right?
Let me recap
I have created new properties for an old part and I would like all old parts to use these new properties.
If I understand these properties have been saved in the new .prtdot but when I open an old part I would like it to point to this one.
Obviously if I create a new piece in the future I would like it to use these new properties as well
Be careful you are talking about 2 things at the same time
prtdot = drawing templates
prtprp= part template
To change the PRTPRP of all your parts I think it's possible but one by one by hand following what I explained above.
may the force be with you.
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Automatically it's not possible!
These properties should have been added to the but in the properties here:
and someone created the new .prtdot that you are using now.
Or
With the "Customize Property" (right). It's called a Properties form. Someone added these properties and registered this new .prtdot.
In the first case, for the old files you copy and paste properties.
In the second case, you can use this form to add the new properties to the old files.
As I tried to solve two problems at the same time I ended up not being very clear anymore.
What I can't do is for the parts.
How to tell a coin to use the new .prtprp.
@OBI_WAN thank you for your relevant remark. For the plans I select the new model and presto!
On the other hand for the part I stall
Thank you @opiep27
I tried this but there are only empty boxes and if you don't know what to do in them you haven't advanced any further.
I hang on thanks to all of you
In your form, you include your brand new properties (and the old ones too).
This will allow you to have them in a property form and for them to be registered in your custom properties.
And since you use the custom properties to fill your mep, it will go faster.
e.g. - in your form, you add a property: Part Number.
- In your old room that you open, this property did not exist. You select your form (as shown Obi_Wan). and on the right you can fill in the box: Part number.
- you are now looking at your custom properties→ Oh miracle, it is well folded.
- You open your MEP → the property updates.
I'll try with pictures:
1- Example of form in creation mode
2- Preview in a room (here a new one that normally already has the properties, but you can call the form for an old room)
3- Same as 2 but you fill in the empty fields
4- Check in your custom properties
5- Check in your mep
And if you have the mycadtool tools, Smart Properties does an equivalent thing with other features.
And Integration, allows you to apply it to several parts, assembly...
But I couldn't help you too much on that. You have to look into the doc, or call on experts.
To answer this question:
and
This is the first section
Ho guys, stop mixing up between prtdot, drwdot, drwdrt and prp, you're going to take @Zozo_mp to the bottom of the Mariana Trench!
Let me recap the initial question:
Pieces have been created with a certain model (so prtdot).
Since then, the prtdot has been modified (creation of custom properties) and it is necessary to update existing parts (sldprt).
There is no dynamic link between the prtdot and the sldprt file, so modifying the prtdot only impacts the sldprt files that will be created later.
To update the old files, without using tools external to SW (@Zozo_mp don't have the MyCadTools, I think), you have to apply the solution proposed immediately by @ac_cobra_427 and @Cyril.f that I detailed: copy the properties from a model part.
It seems to me that the task scheduler requires a >standard version to have access to these options.
The properties form mentioned by @opiep27 and @OBI_WAN is practical but requires you to be already comfortable with the manipulation of custom props and SW file locations to get started and I believe that this is not the case with @Zozo_mp .
@Zozo_mp : Do file extensions show up in your Windows browser? Otherwise, it would have to make the display more cumbersome, visually, but it will help you find your way around.
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To complete
You don't need to open the prtdot, you do file/new, you select your template.
You have created an empty sldprt file but normally it has the personal properties you are interested in.
Like what:
On the left you have the part created with the right model, on the right the part to update.
I select the lines I'm interested in by clicking on the line number (the classic selection options work: shif to take a range, ctrl to add an element), ctrl-c, ok to close the window
I'm going to the second room, I'm going to click on the number of the first empty line and ctrl-v.
If a property already exists, SW will report it and not overwrite the existing one:
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Hello @stefbeno
Thank you very much, this solves part of the problem.
I did as in your excellent beginner's manual.
And for the second plan, it works perfectly
BUT!
When I open a third room and look at the properties, there is nothing!
Does this mean that I have to do the same manip described in the instructions for all the old parts to be able to do the MEP with all the fields filled.
Thank you again for your help!
Stone
Hi all
FYI I don't have Mycad tools?
I confirm I am not seasoned enough to get started with this method.
Thank you for your help because it is very nice to be surrounded by your colleagues.
It's a bit like Robinson Crusoe seeing all these pots arrive when he was a bit like I'm a poor lonesome *cowboy, I'm a long long way from home. In short, Robinson Crusoe lost in apples.
(TO BE CONTINUED...)
Kind regards
Hello
Yes, that's right, you have to do it for each old file. Only the new ones will have the properties already present.
Indeed, it must be done for each file.
Depending on the number of files to be processed, this is where the nomenclature method can be interesting.
Would you like me to go into more detail?
Thank you @Cyril.f
@stefbeno I have more than 100 pieces to modify.
Making cut and paste is not death but if you can detail me a better method it is surely worth it
Kind regards
@Zozo_mp , after verification and mea culpa, the planner allows you to do this (it points to the list of properties defined in a text file). On the other hand, I don't know what level of license you need because we have the premium version.
Then after clicking on next it displays a table from which you have to indicate the properties to be updated, example below:
On the other hand, it puts properties in the " customize " tab, so if you have to target the properties specific to the conf, you will have to run in my opinion by batch.
Hello @Cyril.f
Thank you for your feedback.
Don't worry too much about it because these are advanced functions that we don't use every day.
I have the 2022 premium version
Cdlt
A little too quickly:
- Put the parts in asm (in bulk, without constraint), including at least one with the properties.
- Create an ASM MEP
- Insert a BOM (Annotation/Table/BOM)
- change the columns to have the desired properties, add a column with the property SW-filename
- From there, you can copy and paste on ranges of parts (I work more by column).
If there are values that you can deduce from the file name, make a " save as " of the nomenclature in XL format. Open the file, create the formulas to extract the information, select the area to recover/copy, return to SW, paste.
As with the task scheduler, it creates the props as config-specific (even if there's only one config). Let's see if it's embarrassing for you.
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