Apprecaite your help I am trying to write a macro to overwrite Flat pattern feature name using by custom properties. I am struggling retrieving the custom properties. this is what I have so far.
Option Explicit Sub RenameFlatPatternFeatures() ' Declare SolidWorks application objects Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks Dim swModel As SldWorks.ModelDoc2 Dim swFeature As SldWorks.Feature Dim partNumber As String Dim revisionNumber As String Dim featureName As String Dim newFeatureName As String Dim flatPatternCount As Integer Dim customPropMgr As SldWorks.CustomPropertyManager Dim resolvedValue As String Dim errors As Long ' Get the active SolidWorks application Set swApp = Application.SldWorks ' Get the active model document Set swModel = swApp.ActiveDoc ' Ensure a document is open If swModel Is Nothing Then MsgBox "No document is active!", vbCritical, "Error" Exit Sub End If ' Get the custom property manager for the active model Set customPropMgr = swModel.Extension.CustomPropertyManager("") ' Retrieve the custom properties 'customPropMgr.Get2 "PartNo", resolvedValue, errors 'partNumber = resolvedValue partNumber = "replace" 'customPropMgr.Get2 "DWRevisionNumber", resolvedValue, errors 'revisionNumber = resolvedValue revisionNumber = "me" ' Initialize flat pattern count flatPatternCount = 0 ' Get the first feature Set swFeature = swModel.FirstFeature ' Loop through all features in the model Do While Not swFeature Is Nothing ' Check if the feature is a flat pattern If swFeature.GetTypeName2 = "FlatPattern" Then flatPatternCount = flatPatternCount + 1 ' Get the original feature name featureName = swFeature.Name ' Create the new feature name using the specified format If Len(featureName) >= 2 Then newFeatureName = partNumber & "-" & Left(featureName, 2) & "-R" & revisionNumber Else newFeatureName = partNumber & "-" & featureName & "-R" & revisionNumber ' Fallback if the feature name is too short End If ' Rename the flat pattern feature swFeature.Name = newFeatureName End If ' Move to the next feature Set swFeature = swFeature.GetNextFeature Loop ' Notify user of changes made 'MsgBox flatPatternCount & " flat pattern features renamed.", vbInformation, "Renaming Complete" End Sub