CREATE A SOLIDWORKS PORPERTY WITH MULTIPLE PROPERTIES

I would like to have a colum in my BOM that calls in multiple properties,
ie: the material type, specification, description etc. I would like it to
appear as a sngle string of text. I understand you can do this if you are
using an excel BOM but I want to use a BOM template. I have been told that
you can create a property that will call in a number of diffewrent
properties then I can call that one in to my BOM.

Does anyone know the string or operaters required to string together
multiple properties?

 

Sorry about the shouting

 

I give up. I have been trying a variety of things to accomplish this and I
am coming up empty. Anyone else?

WT

 

You can do this with swCP. There is a Caveat that swCP won't read some
system based CPs.

You could also do this with a macro in some cases.

 

Thanks for the help.

By swCP you mean SW custom properties? I need to know the operators or text
string to join together multiple properties in the property string.


Steve R

 

You have to do this in the part (or assembly) itself.
There you can create in the Properties a new property (e.g. "multiple").
As value you can call other properties in one string e.g.:
$PRPSHEET:"Description" ""

If you have a property "Description" with value "Block" and your material is
6061 Alu, the value of this "multiple" column in the BOM table will be
"Block 6061 Alu".

\/\/im

 

If you search the NG for greenhex you will find it here. Get it and
print out the documentation and read it. There is a section on how to
do this.

 

I have a custom property, "description", in part and assembly files for
this. It's assembled from the custom properties DESC1 and DESC2.

This format should work in other properties called up by the BOM.

$PRP:"DESC1" $PRP:"DESC2"

Learned it here - love the help.

Diego

 

thanks for the help. Got it figured out about 30 sec before your post


$PRP:"ASTM", $PRP:"STOCK", $PRP:"MATERIAL TYPE", $PRP:"MATERIAL" etc etc

Note that you have to be carefull with spaces.