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  1. Hacaro

    Unsuppress ALL parts

    I have a workstation with SW2005 with strange behaviours. I recently installed SW2005 SP0.0 and upgraded to SP5.0. Since then the user complains of SW sometimes unsuppressing ALL parts in all assemblies and in all subassemblies of his work. I have never seen this behaviour and I can't explain...
  2. Hacaro

    Sheet API

    Hi there, I'm trying to edit a note on the CURRENT drawing sheet using VB. When I record a macro it looks something like: ... Model.SelectByID("DetailItem56@Sheet Format1", "NOTE", ...) ... This is the selection of the note. Now I see that if I edit the note on sheet 3 the...
  3. Hacaro

    Drawing sheet name

    Hello, Does anyone know if it's possible to change the default naming SW uses for drawing sheets? (Sheet1, Sheet 2,..) Most of the time I have about 15 sheets in a drawing and I name them 1, 2, ... by hand. I was just wondering if it's possible to make Solidworks use this naming rule...
  4. Hacaro

    Get part name using VBA

    I'm trying to insert a custom property that contains the weight of a part using a vba macro. In order to do this I need the partname to insert "weight@partname.sldprt" in the property field of that property. I can do this using GETPATHNAME and then filtering out the partname using the...
  5. Hacaro

    Change part colour using SW API

    I am trying to change the colour of a part document using VB. Is it necessary to select every single face and set the desired colour or is it possible to change the colour of the part in one simple operation? I think it is possible since it's posible in SW (select the first feature in the tree...

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