SWit family grows

2 new free AddIns for SolidWorks:

SWup - PDF updater for drawings
SWas - use attributes to create model filenames

download: www.markkulehtola.net/swit.html

 

The animation on your web site is certainly interesting. As they say,
an animation is worth a 1,000 words.

 

Like the pdf SWUP but how do you set the friggin bluebeam settings so I
dont have a little 11 x 17 sheet in the middle of a d sized paper?

Like where are the bluebeam settings, how did you get it to print a pdf?
I have tried in the past and only got a bizarre file without a pdf
extension I think it was a *.PSB, like seriously, it says bluebeam pdf
printer, not blue beam what the @@#$! printer! Oh and dont let the user
tell it where to put the file just willy nilly throw it somewhere on the
drive and let the user play hide and friggin seek with it, god forbid I
get a pdf from a pdf printer... Ok rant over..

Now is the time for one of you to point out what a dumbass I am

Cool program and if I can get my bluebeam to work then I will use it a lot!

Ben

 

So I guess SWas does not support drawings? seems to me that the two
programs could work hand in hand. by updating a pdf with the revision letter
appended to the end of the pdf filename. Seems like this would
automatically create a pdf history of files as each filename would be
unique.

Just my thoughts.

Steve Tietz

 

Hi there, I think if you set the printer to BlueBeam PDF and set your print
settings like you were going to print, but then exit and use Save-as, set
the file type to PDF and save the file where you want it - let me know if it
works!

Lee

 

Ben,

I had a time with this when Bluebeam was first included with SW. The trick
is:

1. Bluebeam will only work with SW unless you buy the full version
2. You don't "print" to the Bluebeam printer like you would expect. This
threw me for a long time. Instead:
a. Go to Tools>Add-Ins and check "Save as PDF" (only have to do this
once)
b. Then with a drawing open (or even a part/assembly), do a File>Save As
c. You can browse to any location that you want
d. In the "Save as type" drop-down, select PDF
e. Name your PDF file as necessary and click OK
3. With drawings, the PDF will be the same sheet size and orientation as
your drawing sheet, automagicly. With parts/assemblies, it will use the
default printer's default sheet size (usually letter/portrait).
4. The PDF produced will follow the current Page Setup settings for color.
I don't recall any of the other settings within this dialog making any
difference in the resulting PDF. Though I don't play with any of the other
setting that much either.

Hope this helps...

 

Did this before but double checked

NO NO NO NO I still get the crappy b size nicely centered in a D size
sheet GAHHHHH!!!!!

Regardless it would be nice to have a GreyScale or B&W option

Close but no cigar

 

NOPE! you would think that would be a logical way to do it but nope.

 

Thanks, I might include the same stuff to SWit if I find the time to do
it.

 

Hi, are you using document settings under page setup?

regards
Markku

 

Bloody nice thoughts I think. Let's see what we have in the next version.

 

Ok, so we (again) problems with this freaking Bluebeam (SWup). Mine is
working just fine (I haven't even touched it), but I'm not that big fan of it
either. I will check out how easy it would be to set up SWup with
GhostScript+FreeDist or something like that.

 

Yep...

 

Wait maybe.

1. I have no options in solidworks... right?
2. In my printers I double click the bluebeam printer and hit
Printer-Properties in the menu, next I set the page etc etc.. Next I hit
Printer-Preferences (which is also in the properties pop up) and set the
properties

This what you mean or is there... no, could not be... another hidden
window somewhere in this cryptic @#$@#!!! program I have missed.

Ben

 

For PDF sadly no other than what you can do under page setup

As far as I understand how this should work is that wat ever you do with
the BB printer settings (when it comes to paper size) it should not
affect to the result. Size is defined in SW, under page setup for each
drw template.

My BB printer settings for example were set to "letter" size, but I get
A4 which is the template size and correct for me.

I'll try to check out how easily I could get rid of the BB..


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Markku Lehtola

www.markkulehtola.net

 

Ben,

Unfortunately, I have no solution for you. It has always simply "worked"
for me this way.

 

SWup 1.0e released,

no Bluebeam problems anymore, use what ever ps-driver
you have installed. You can also add one attribute to the PDF-filename,
for example "Revision", this way you can create a full PDF-library that
includes all revisions.