Hi Everyone,

I've came across a problem at my work that I've solved where I wrote a macro that checked who is the current user (windows login details) when certain solidworks file is created and adds this name to Author of the document. This is a very useful information when it comes down to creating drawings which have all this information displayed on them. likewise it can be used to check who the current user was a certain time eg. when document is printed.

What bugs me with the way I have done it is that I take a long approach to find out who created the file, by checking it and recording it in Author summary information field. however I have found this approach to have it's limitations. I am 99% sure that all such information is stored within the file structure under some variable, as an example creation date of a document is stored with each file, each feature created in tree structure has users name assosiated with it. From that it is only logical to say that file it self would have users details embeded in it somewhere. Could someone let me if this is so, and if so then how to access this information.

Best Regards

Alexey Groutso