From your options menu, system options, file locations, you can determine where SolidWorks will look for custom property templates. To be able to use this, the file needs to be placed in the correct location. Since this is a property template for a part, it will save as a. The last step is to save your template and use it.
Here I quickly created a simple example to highlight some of the features. The interface is fairly straight forward. Each input you allow contains a “heading,” which tells the user what property you are looking for, and a property name, which the input will be tied to. These can even be nested to automatically hide or show based on specific input, just how they do in a property manager for a command. The tab builder gives the option to create text boxes for entry, scrolled number lists, dropdown lists, even checkboxes and radio buttons. There’s no limit to what properties you can create, and how the user will fill them in. Each of these will allow you to create text “headings” to explain what the property is, as well as define a link that connects the user’s input in the field to the specific custom property that it pertains to. Clicking the “create now” button brings up the property tab builder, which allows you to create various inputs for the user. As a result it will ask you to create one. Chances are if you’ve never used this, you won’t have any property templates. The custom property template itself is located on its own tab in the view pane on the right side. Launch a new part blank part, and let’s begin. For this example, we’ll create a part property template. Let’s take a look at setting one up, and how it can help us. This will help us fill in properties for part, assembly, or drawing files in a much quicker and easier manner. It actually creates an interface which prompts the user to fill in the information it asks for, much like a property manager for a command. This is where the custom property template differs. They differ completely from part to part. Once created, it automatically defines options (or in this case, custom properties) for each part created.īut wait… custom properties aren’t like units or other settings. This actually creates and utilizes a custom property template, which is not unlike other templates you may have worked with. Is there a way we can prevent this annoying, and potentially time-consuming problem from occurring?Īs a matter of fact, there is! SolidWorks contains a great tool to assist in filling in custom properties the custom property tab. At this point, the user may not be the original part designer, and might not know that information. But as careful as we engineers are, what happens if we forget one? This can go undiscovered until the time of part documentation, or when creating a drawing to send to the shop floor. As a result, it becomes very important that all members of an engineer team carefully and methodically create and populate these sometimes extensive lists of custom properties.
They are absolutely vital to the successful population of bill of material information descriptions or part numbers are often pulled from custom properties at the part level. SolidWorks custom properties have an incredible number of uses.
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