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SOLIDWORKS Custom Properties
SOLIDWORKS Custom Properties technical tips and tutorials
How to Create Templates in SOLIDWORKS
Templates in SOLIDWORKS are the foundational aspect of every design you create. Without templates, your files wouldn’t know which unit…
SOLIDWORKS PDM – How to Map Variables to File Properties and Custom Variables
Dive into our step-step guide on how to map variables to both predefined properties, like Title and Author, as well as to custom-named properties within SOLIDWORKS files.
How to Display Units in SOLIDWORKS 2024: A Guide to Custom File Properties
Learn how to display units in SOLIDWORKS BOMs using custom file properties and workarounds for equations.
SOLIDWORKS Part Feature Tree (and other data) Salvage!
Discover creative ways to salvage your work by transplanting the SOLIDWORKS Part feature tree, custom properties, and configuration data into a new part file!
How to Automate Sheet Borders and Title Block Options in SOLIDWORKS
In this video tech tip, we will be setting up Drawing Sheet Format borders using the Automatic Border tool in…
SOLIDWORKS Drawings Best Practice Tutorial
Got drawing issues? One of the biggest issues that our customers face is a disconnect between the design and manufacturing…
SOLIDWORKS eDrawings 2021 File Properties
Does the uncapitalized “e” on eDrawings bother you, too? Well that is one change that didn’t make it in SOLIDWORKS…
SOLIDWORKS Composer 2021 – Sharing (Default) Document Properties
New in SOLIDWORKS Composer 2021 is the ability to share Default Document Properties across different computer systems! This allows us…
Save time by linking Notes and Features to Custom Properties in SOLIDWORKS
Why should you link notes and features to custom properties in SOLIDWORKS? Well have you ever needed to add a…
How to link Balloons to Custom Properties in a SOLIDWORKS Drawing Template
Recently a customer wanted to know if it was possible, in a SOLIDWORKS Drawing Template, to link Custom Properties to…
Connecting SOLIDWORKS Manage to a SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional Vault
SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional can be easily connected to SOLIDWORKS Manage. The close relationship between SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional and SOLIDWORKS Manage,…
What to do when SOLIDWORKS can’t find the “properties.txt” file
Have you ever tried to configure a feature and received the error message below…’The properties.txt file cannot be located’? Typically,…
SOLIDWORKS 2019 Linked Custom Properties in Mirrored Assembly
SOLIDWORKS 2019 can now link custom properties of an opposite-hand mirrored assembly. Mirrored part files already had the ability to…
How to add more Properties to the Standard SOLIDWORKS Custom Properties List
The standard SOLIDWORKS Custom Properties List that is included with SOLIDWORKS are decent and cover most needs, but what if…
How to add a Date automatically to SOLIDWORKS Custom File Properties
In my last article I touched on populating the File Properties in a SOLIDWORKS Part template to reduce typing. But…