All,
I have an interesting question you may help us with.To beginwithlet me set up a scenario we have here. We issue printstoPurchasing for ordering parts. The prints are also given toourQuality Department for initial inspections of these parts whentheyare delivered. Prior to inspecting our Quality Department willtakea hard copy of the print and number every dimension. Qualitywillthen type into an Excel spreadsheet exact dimension andit'sassociated number. There is a great deal of time takentoaccomplish this as well as the possibility for human error.InSolidWorks each dimension is automatically issued a"DimensionName" (example: D1, D2, D3...or.RD12@DrawingView..........etc). Now for my question. Is thereanyway we can; #1display the Dimension Name on the drawing, #2. Isthere anyway wecan extract this information along with thedimension value to achart within SolidWorks Or better yet to anExcel spreadsheet?Ifthis is possible it would cut down the time andhelp eliminate thehuman error factor of copying dimension values.
I have had these two questions answered with a "yes". Ihavebeen told to go to the API Help within SolidWorks and look atthe"Get Dimension Values in Drawing Example" for the VBcode for themacro.
Knowing very little about this how do I edit the code toaccomplishthe task written above. And lastly (this will show youhow little Iknow about all of this) is this macro meant to be usedwithin Excelor SolidWorks?
Thanks in advance!
SolidworksApi macros
I have an interesting question you may help us with.To beginwithlet me set up a scenario we have here. We issue printstoPurchasing for ordering parts. The prints are also given toourQuality Department for initial inspections of these parts whentheyare delivered. Prior to inspecting our Quality Department willtakea hard copy of the print and number every dimension. Qualitywillthen type into an Excel spreadsheet exact dimension andit'sassociated number. There is a great deal of time takentoaccomplish this as well as the possibility for human error.InSolidWorks each dimension is automatically issued a"DimensionName" (example: D1, D2, D3...or.RD12@DrawingView..........etc). Now for my question. Is thereanyway we can; #1display the Dimension Name on the drawing, #2. Isthere anyway wecan extract this information along with thedimension value to achart within SolidWorks Or better yet to anExcel spreadsheet?Ifthis is possible it would cut down the time andhelp eliminate thehuman error factor of copying dimension values.
I have had these two questions answered with a "yes". Ihavebeen told to go to the API Help within SolidWorks and look atthe"Get Dimension Values in Drawing Example" for the VBcode for themacro.
Knowing very little about this how do I edit the code toaccomplishthe task written above. And lastly (this will show youhow little Iknow about all of this) is this macro meant to be usedwithin Excelor SolidWorks?
Thanks in advance!
SolidworksApi macros
