Recent content by tbeck11

Thanks for the input guys! I can always count on this forum! have a great weekend. Todd

If I use the code below to strip off the last 6 characters of a file name, what code would I use to capture and store the first two characters of the file name? filename = Strings.Left(filename, Len(filename) - 6) & "PDF" My goal is to capture and store the first to characters and then us...

My IT guy just asked me if I am ready to have the group goto 2009 sp1 from 2008 sp4.0. How has 2009 be running for those of you running it? Thanks. Todd

The presentation for my daughter's 7th grade classes went AWESOME!! The kids were soooo excited to see my models as well as some of the images produced in PhotoWorks! If you can ever give some time to a local school to share "real world" experiences with them, do it! I felt so good coming out...

Does anyone have access to the Mouse Trap Game animation that was done in SolidWorks? I'm doing a presentation for my daughter's class tomorrow and would love to show the kids this animation. Thanks. Todd

Has anyone dabbled with 2009 Beta? Just curious what it is like.

I love the negative / reverse dimensions. That was ONE nice feature Pro/E had. The speedpak looks pretty cool as well.

Anyone hear anything on 2009? Just wondering if any enhancements were leaked.

I also had the same problem with the ATI FireGL 7200 card and once I installed the 8.44 driver, the crashes went away. Todd

Scott, I can add a text hyperlink but just cannot get the block to link. I smell an enhancement request. Have a good New Year!

Is there a way that I can click on a block in a 2D SWX drawing and have it open a PDF? I was able to select the block - EDIT - INSERT HYPERLINK then path to the PDF file, but the only down side is that the path is displayed on the drawing. If I edit the text, I lose the path and link. The...

Doug, I can share with you the justification letter I presented our management team when we were looking at Premium. Drop me an email. Todd toddb@rvii.com

I just ran into a problem when checking in drawings to the vault. I was checking in a drawing that was going into the vault at Rev 4. During check-in, the description for Rev 0 was changed to the text I entered for Rev 4 and the description for Rev 4 was left blank. I tried deleting the rev...

We are trying to have a single click for the users. We are taking the SolidWorks BOM, exporting it to an excel file, saving it to a specified dir on the network, then having another program pick it up and imiport it into our erp system. The macro would ensure that the file naming would always...

Does anyone have a macro that while in a drawing, will select the BOM and export it to an excel file? Thanks. Todd 2008 SP1.0