My suspicion is that the hyperbolic curve is being approximated by a sequence of lines or arcs in the DWG / DXF. Before you machine, you might be able to determine how well the approximation is by importing the DWG back into SW and comparing it to your original geometry. You might have better...
Check out faq559-891. It describes modifying the hole callouts which will cover a lot of the uses of the dia symbol. You should also be able to use dimension favorites to quickly switch other dimensions to your company standard.
p.s. I was amused by phrase "aligned with practice that predates...
I agree with handleman, what you are requesting is a purpose built macro. Depending on what you are doing, here are some alternatives.
1) If you are reusing a limited set of geometry, there is a macro out there for saving all of the configs as independent files. These could then be inserted...
The correct course likely relies on how you want to control versions and revisions for the parts. If you are OK with them being linked then, I would go with configurations of a single model and a single drawing with a table. If you want strong revision control and tracking, I would go with...
You can limit user access at the project level, so you could place the drawings in their own project / projects with a different set of user permissions than the project containing parts and assemblies. This would allow you to independently control who can edit models and who can edit drawings...
It sounds like you might be attempting top-down design. If so, Patrick's suggestion of "skeleton part" in addition to "layout sketch" and "top-down design" might be good search terms.
If not, providing a little more detail about why you want to position components relative to elements in...
Remove / uncheck the filter for Operation is RegSetValue. It is requiring the operation to be setting a value in the registry when we are looking for it accessing something in the file system.
Eric
I have Process Monitor running with the filters set up and it set to capture events. Then I start Property Tab Builder 2014, and all of those appear right off the bat. The values are a bit hard to read in the screen capture so I'm including the text here. I am using Process name is...
SBaugh,
I was thinking you could use Process Monitor to figure out what file the property tab builder was opening. Given what I found on my system, it might help. The shot below is from starting Property Tab Builder 2014. It is reading the properties.txt from my 2013 install. I just checked...
2014 has an option: "Display configurations with the same name as one item" That selection might not mess up your fasteners, as they probably have unique values. To give the configurations the same name, you would go into the part, switch to the configuration tab, right click on each...
In the properties for the BoM there is a section on Part Configuration Grouping. You might be able to get what you are after using those settings, probably "Display all configurations of the same part as one item."
Eric
I do not think the for loop at the beginning is opening the files. If you only have a single Excel file open in a single instance of Excel, it should only loop once. Below are two modifications that might work.
Eric
Sub main()
Set objExcel = GetObject(, "Excel.Application")
Set wbExcel =...