I'm new to this group! Help!

Hi,

I'm a Mechanical Desktop user. I love the way the AutoCad set up
that you can change path of your model drawing. For example, Original
path of the 3D model of drawing A is C:/drawing/drawing2/solidmodel/
example1.sdprt. You can change it to /solidmodel/ in the path option.
If you move the drawing, the drawing will look into the sub folder
solidmodel for its model. That is how AutoCad works, but how about
SolidWorks? How can we do a similar to that?


Thank you for answer my question

 

SolidWorks work exactly how AutoCAD. It just change icons at the screne.
Mech Desktrp very goode programme. Very modern. VCery lovely.
Solidyodelk work wilth move.

By the way, kid, keep your head down in here. HooFlungDung is throwing
shit again.

Daisy.

 

If you've moved the models to a different directory, when you go to open
the drawing, choose reference before hitting the open button. Then you
can change the location of any of the referenced parts.

 

Hey Daisy,

Tell your keeper to quit putting all the extra plant food in your water
or quit feeding you the fertilizer from the chicken farm

 

SolidWorks has some very powerful tools for managing files references.
I will try to explain this.

First, in Tools/Options/External references there is a check box for
Check Referenced File locations. If that is not checked SW will use
the information in the saved file to try to find referenced files. If
that option is checked then SW will look in a directory(ies) specified
in Tools/Options/FileLocations/References in the order listed there.

Second, when the option above is checked, SW will be forced to look
first in the first and then in subsequent location in the References
list. So even if you just saved to a different location SW will look
first in the References list. Only if it doesn't find it there will it
look at where you last saved it and if it doesn't find it there it
will look in the last place windows looked for a file. This last
behavior is a nasty wildcard for users.

So what you can do in SW is to have two Folder Trees, one for released
work and one for work in progress. If they both have the same exact
folder structure then whichever top level tree is first in the
references list will force SW to look there first. SW can then be made
to look first at work in progress and then in released work or vice
versa just by changing the order of the folder trees in File/
References.

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