Hi all As you add drawings to a drawi …
Hi all
As you add drawings to a drawing document SW increments the sheet number by one each time. What I would like to know: is there a way to change the sheet name automatically by referencing information from that drawing sheet. Eg Prt number or something?
CBL, 
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MarkKaiser 6:52 am on February 18, 2009 Permalink
You might be able to do this with custom properties, then enter the code for the custom property in the sheet name. I don’t use custom props, so you’ll have to research this.
I do link a sheet entity to the sheet name, reverse of what you’re asking. I rename the sheet to what I want the drawing name to be, then I have the drawing name text linked to this, so I don’t have to type the drawing number on both the sheet tab at the bottom of the screen and in the title block. Just type it in the sheet tab, then this populates the drawing name in the title block.
Alan 9:56 am on February 18, 2009 Permalink
Mark is correct, you can set up custom properties and link them in your sheet, or you can delete the link in your sheet altogether and type in what you want it to be. SolidWorker.com has a video tutorial on sheet formatting that you may find useful
MarkKaiser 11:09 am on February 18, 2009 Permalink
Doug’s trying to get to the sheet name though, sheet notes/annotations/title block are easy to link, I’ve never tried linking the sheet name.
Doug 1:28 pm on February 18, 2009 Permalink
So far it seems, what I want is not yet possible. The problem I am having is when I have a number of drawing sheets representing a number of part, all I have on file is the file name of the drw file. Outside of a data base when I open the prt I don’t know where the part drawing is. I want to cross link them in a outside database but the drw sheet will ref to both the part number and prt file and drawing sheet. Boy this is impossible to explain.
MarkKaiser 1:45 pm on February 18, 2009 Permalink
So your problem is having multiple parts in a drawing and not knowing what drawing cad file the part is in?
Part of your last comment was ‘when I open the part I don’t know where the part drawing is’. If you right click on an open part (the body in the graphics area) or right click on the part icon at the top of the feature manager tree, ‘open drawing’ will be on the menu. Also, if you’re on a version of SW that includes SW Explorer, you can open the part file in SW Explorer and have it do a where used for you to find the drawings.
CBL 5:13 pm on February 18, 2009 Permalink
I guess I’m not seeing the problem.
Does your part number not match the drawing and sheet number?
If the drawing number is 12345 and has multiple sheets, each sheet could contain part number 12345-1, 12345-2, 12345-3, etc.
Doug 4:28 am on February 19, 2009 Permalink
Hold On. I am going to try to set up a sample look