Tables? Gear tables?

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by hacksaw, Dec 9, 2003.

  1. hacksaw

    hacksaw Guest

    Anyone have a solution for getting a gear table on a drawing with the
    correct font height?
    It has to be editable. Design tables suck at this because they are an OLE
    object.
    I have tried about ten different approaches. Even a macro that will draw all
    the grid lines (real slow!)
    Table needs to be about 40 rows and 2 columns
    I did all the ole object approaches. Word, Excel, they suck due to sizing
    issues (i.e. font height incorrect)
    I even tried to rebuild the revision table thingy to work for this
    application
    I cannot believe they went to the trouble to add ALL the table capability
    and LEFT OUT the plain table option!
    WTF?

    BOM, Hole, and Rev tables have good features I need like justifying the font
    and sizing columns, BUT, I cannot seem to hammer them into a usable plain
    format that will not get updated(mucked up) when reinserted into the next
    gear drawing.
    Am I missing something?
    Custom property modifications to the rev block template did not pan out. A
    reinsert hoses up your changes.

    Seems like a real basic function. Must not be a marketable feature :)
    Thoughts?

    hacksaw
     
    hacksaw, Dec 9, 2003
    #1
  2. How about a macro that inserts a block. The block could be one row. If you
    have a text box in your block you can replace the text after you insert the
    block with a macro. I do this for our revision block in SW2003 It works
    great. Pretty quick too. You could count the number of block instances to
    know what level to insert the next one at.

    Corey Scheich
     
    Corey Scheich, Dec 9, 2003
    #2
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