Having just arrived in a company that does not pose (for the moment EPDM), I would like to know if there is a tool to select parts or assemblies in a folder under windows and assign it the desired properties. Currently we use bills of materials from solidworks but all the parts must then be sorted by hand in excel and say if they are tube or panel hardware or others, I would like to be able to include these properties directly, but as there are hundreds of them I would need a tool to help me.
If you have the MyCadTools (https://www.visiativ-industry.fr/mycadtools/) tools, you need to have what you need to be able to do what you want, otherwise you'll have to make a macro.
Thank you for your answers Roger and Denis, it corresponds to my request.
They had already installed the EPDM but their server crashed 2 weeks later and suddenly it doesn't work anymore, and their reseller doesn't want to go back without making them pay for a service again, I often talk about it normally it should come, knowing that my other colleagues don't know about EPDM it's only me to push with the boss =)
Without the need for "third-party tools" there is the task scheduler (following the Solidworks package) which allows you to do this for "Custom Properties", on files, or folders.
Solidworks Task Scheduler
Update custom properties
(choose folders or files, click next)
Fill in the properties to be updated, or to be created!
I confirm for the task scheduler, the only limitation lies in the fact that the files must be in the same folder otherwise you have to select them 1 to 1 (it seems to me that the multi-selection works).
Do you have the MYCAD tools??? otherwise with your license number you should be able to download and install them, they are very practical, especially for your current problem!!
I just saw the Oliviier tutorial, basically the properties are no longer linked to the part but managed by an excel file for example which allows you not to have to use all the parts already created?
I confirm the words of olivier42, there is no external table. The Task Scheduler relies on the file's properties if it has any to populate the drop-down menu.
As soon as there is a file that contains properties, it retrieves them to propose them and therefore adds them to the files that do not have them.
Ha okay, but my basic concern is that all the files already created have no properties! And I want to add desired properties to them automatically, so indeed batch properties fits well.