Propagation of Document properties

Hello All,

Occasionally I'll get some files from a client that I have to do some work
on, and I would like to change their document properties to my document
properties.
Is there any way to populate their part files with document properties from
my part template?

TIA,
Muggs

 

http://www.esoxrepublic.com/freeware/index.html

There is a link named Copy Custom Info macro . This is a great macro that I
use all of the time (thanks Roland).

With a part open, start the macro. It will instantly ask you what file do
you want to copy the custom props from. You can then pick and choose which
props you want to copy, or select all. Click copy and that's it!

 

Thanks Seth,
I have Propagator, and it works great, but what I want to do is propagate
document properties not custom properties.

I hope I'm making sense.
Muggs

 

Sorry. I mis-read your question. I don't have an answer for you regarding
document properties. I too would like to know of a way to do this. I wish
that macro would do custom properties and document properties because it is
so very easy to use. But it doesn't.

 

Thanks for the positive feedback, Seth.

I have considered a similar program for document properties. Mostly I
am daunted by the sheer number of properties that need to be copied.
They don't enumerate nicely the way custom properties do. Otherwise,
it shouldn't be too difficult (in theory).

I started a new job in February as a project engineer. This has
dampened (completely halted for the moment) my SW API development work.
Now that the family is settling into new home & town, I hope to resume
soon. Maybe this could be a new project (though I still owe Ed Eaton a
program--I haven't forgotten, Ed!).

 

Try this, copy document properties (excel macro).
Works for system, part, assy and drawing.

http://swtools.cad.de/download.htm
Under freeware section.

To use the tool, open SW drawing (the one with desired properties).

Open Excel macro, set to appropriate worksheet (drawing), then select "get
options". Only need to do this once or for each different template you have
(multiple Excel files).

Open client drawing, switch back to Excel macro, then select "set options".

Copydocoption-1.7.0.xls exists which includes 2005 & 2006 options, but has
not been released yet. If you inquire, you may be able to get this version
or maybe he will finally release for public consumption.

cheers

 

Well, it's something that I would pay a reasonable amount for.
Please keep this NG informed if/when you get around to it.

Muggs

 

OH YES... I forgot about this one.

I have used this in the past. It works well for the most part. I did have
some problems with colors IIRC. Seems like it had something to do with
feature colors. By default if you change the color of "Shading", all of the
feature colors in the list would change also. After running the excel
macro, if you change the color of "Shading", none of the feature colors in
the list change (IIRC). There was no way to get this functionality back.
You would literally have to change the color for every feature type within
the document properties>colors to get a single color model. Of course this
might be fixed now, or I may not be remembering correctly either. I would
test it on a junk model first.

 

That works great! Thanks Remy.

Now I wish it could populate all part files in a folder.
I know, I know, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Thanks again,
Muggs

 

I just tested it again using the latest version (1.7.0). It still has the
problem that I described earlier.

 

Please report this as a bug to the author.
Contact info is on description worksheet inside macro.

 

I will do this tomorrow. Can you please confirm this problem for me before
I do (if you can follow it)? I just want to make sure it is not something
unique with my system settings that is causing it first.

Thanks,

 

Confirmed.

Never noticed this before because I only use this macro for drawings and
system options.

 

OK thanks... I just reported the problem to the author (Stefan Berlitz).

 

remy,

Yes I did. He did confirm that what I was seeing WAS really happening.
Turns out that even if you manually change any of the feature colors in the
list, they will never be populated with the shaded color again. There is no
way to reset this. There is a workaround with this Excel macro though. I
was going to post his response, but it slipped through the cracks as busy as
I have been around here. Below is a condensed version of his response:

My preference is the third option. Simply prevent the copydocoptions.xls
macro from changing any of the feature colors. This is done with a simple
negative number in the first column of the respective row(s). I have not
actually tried it yet, but I'm sure it will work. I am going to make a
permanent change to a copy of this .xls file so I don't have to do this
every time.