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Ricky Jordan's Blog: SolidWorks Video Tip: 2009 Title Block & Custom Properties

  • Steve H · 10 months ago
    Thanks Ricky,
    it's so much better to watch it in action then to read about it and try to put it together in your head.
    Great site i will be sure to look in oftern.

    Steve H
    From Brisbane Australia.
  • Marcin · 9 months ago
    How is make Date List? Please help.
  • Ricky Jordan · 9 months ago
    Marcin,

    You set this in the Property Tab Builder (PTB). If you look at the image above (of the PTB) you will see in the group boxes there is a text field for Date. This is defined as a Textbox in PTB. If you click on the text filed in the GUI area, the properties will show on the right side of the PTB. I have it set to a custom property and under "Custom Property Attributes" set the Type to Date.

    Let me know if this doesn't answer your question.

    Best Regards,
  • Woo · 7 months ago
    The interface is as slow as a snail. When I try to enter text the thing almost jams. Do you know a way around that? I am using a 64 bit windows xp with 8 gb ram and a q6600 processor.
  • Dave · 7 months ago
    Could anyone help with placing an excel spreadsheet information in a titleblock using the property tab builder. I have the group, list, excel, path, and range. The list shows up on the property tab builder but not in the drawing (I get the group but not the excel list). Any suggestions would be great.

    Thanks
  • Martin Streat · 6 months ago
    Hi Ricky,
    I spotted this article when it first came out and started to use the custom prop tab.
    our problem stems from working in X64 vista and xp i think. when typing in a text box on the custom tab the space bar sometimes jumps two or three spaces. sometimes behaves normally. in the same line of text.
    the reason i say its x64 is because the dot net is different in x64. some of the controls are different. you will see this in macros, dialogue boxes staying behind windows, strange behavure of dll files not loading etc.
    Sw know about this as they warned about it in their email tips of "SolidWorks Express: Seven ways to improve your data management" of 3rd june.
    some of the miles of code in sw needs to checked and updated. try clicking the link to tutorial drawings in the help, tutorials. the dll file that runs that needs to be loaded because of that problem.
    i write all this because i see you have a contact system to the ivory tower. cheers mart
  • Keith · 6 months ago
    Hey Ricky,

    How did you get the calender to appear in the Date drop-down list?
  • Ricky Jordan · 5 months ago
    Keith,

    The in the Property Tab Builder, when you add the field for the date, there is a setting you'll need to show the calendar. Under Custom Property Attribute, set the "Type" to "Date". It is a pull down menu where your other choices are "Text" and "Yes/No".

    Let me know if you have any other questions on this.

    Ricky