From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks
Custom property links - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks
Custom property links
- [Voiceover] In this video I'm going to show you how to link to SolidWorks values from both the custom properties as well as from your drawings. The first thing I want to point out here as I go up to File Properties, notice I've got three different sections here, I've got the Summary section, I've got the Custom Properties, and I have Configuration Specific Properties, but I want to go back over here to Custom Properties and take a look at what I've got here. You can see I'm doing a few links here, so you see this dollar prompt PRP and then a SolidWorks file name and notice it links to whatever that value is. Up here at the top of the screen you can see it is T5, that's the name of my file. I'm linking to that, and I've got a whole bunch of these things I can use inside of SolidWorks inside of my custom properties inside of my drawings, to link to these internal values inside of SolidWorks. And this'll save us a lot of time. Notice over here I have "see notes," but I can also choose an internal value here like for instance, material. Choose SolidWorks dash Material, and you can see it links to whatever is defined over here in the tree. So it's brass, click on OK, it automatically saves it, and now those values are stuck with that part, so if I use it in building materials or if I use it on a drawing, those will automatically follow through onto that drawing. If I go back over here and notice I've got a couple other ones here, I have this Last Saved Date, Short Date, a bunch of different things I can pull from SolidWorks. So if you go up here to the Search bar here, and search for SolidWorks link properties, you'll end up with a document that looks a lot like this. So here's a list of a bunch of these things I can actually link to inside of my drawing. So I can link to things like Author, Keywords, Last Saved Date, the Long Date, Subject, Title, all types of different things I can link to inside of SolidWorks. And each one of those values is going to have a section in front of it telling us where we're going to be getting them from. So in this case here it's a dollar prompt PRP and then a colon followed by whatever that value's going to be. So that's kind of the format you're going to be using when you're using custom properties and linking to values inside of SolidWorks. Once you click on OK, I'm going to go over to the drawing of this part and you can see here I've got a couple of different custom properties that I'm using. So down here at the bottom I'm going to click on right-click and say Edit Sheet Format, and I'm going to hover over this one here, and notice as soon as I do, it shows me what is being displayed. So let's try it one more time here. And there it is, PRP Sheet Last Saved Date, and that is the format. If I go up to the top of the screen, I have a similar one up here, and this time it is SolidWorks folder name followed by the file name. The little pop-up goes away after a little while so that if we read it quickly you can see I'm using both the folder name as well as the file name so I can link to those values. If I want to create a new one, just go over here to Note, click on where you'd like to have that note, anywhere on the screen, and instead of typing a value, I'm going to go over here, I can either link to a hyperlink, or I can say I'd like to link to a property, and there it is. So click on Link to Property, and click on Current Document and you can see I've got a selection here, and I can just choose one of those values. So let's try Author, and notice it shows up evaluated to Gabe, which I already put my name in there, and if you didn't, you can always go over here and click on File Properties and type in these values. So here's Gabe or fill out some more custom properties, or we can even cut and paste and bring those properties in. Once you have what you want click on OK, make sure you do have that selected, so Author shows up there, and then click on OK. And click on OK. And now I've got that little note, I can put it anywhere I want on my drawing. And any time I'm saving my drawings it's always going to show up, it's always going to link back to that value inside of my part, or the drawing depending on how you link the two together. Hopefully a few of these quick tips and tricks will improve your efficiency inside of SolidWorks. Check back next week for more tasty bites of SolidWorks knowledge.
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Quick switching between lines and arcs3m 23s
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Switching sketch planes1m 52s
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Using Pack and Go to rename files2m 1s
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Cutting and pasting custom properties3m 36s
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Custom property links3m 33s
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Plane mates1m 26s
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Create a face fillet using hold lines4m 31s
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Use construction geometry to simplify sketches7m 10s
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Convert and offset entities7m 17s
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Dissolve sketch text tool2m 18s
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Create a flat pattern6m 22s
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Use the Curve Driven Pattern tool5m 8s
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Use the Combine command3m 6s
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Working with the Split command1m 32s
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Use the Fill Pattern command2m
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Looking at solid sweeps3m
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Looking at interference detection2m 35s
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Checking out virtual sharps5m 16s
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Using and dimensioning arcs and curves2m 50s
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Looking at the path length dimension2m 27s
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Customizing the Command Manager2m 38s
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Looking at normal cuts2m 14s
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Creating a fishmouth with two connection points7m 5s
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Understanding mouse gestures1m 44s
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Renaming files4m 16s
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Creating build materials from SOLIDWORKS Explorer1m 30s
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Checking out Treehouse1m 42s
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Exporting out of Treehouse1m 25s
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Pipe coping with surface flatten7m 15s
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Mouse gesture tips1m 45s
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SOLIDWORKS Explorer: Renaming files4m 28s
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SOLIDWORKS Bill of Materials (BOM)1m 30s
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Treehouse1m 42s
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Selection set1m 53s
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Exclude from BOM1m 57s
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Wrap feature2m 24s
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Split line tricks3m 38s
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Creating "custom" custom property names3m 21s
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Link to thickness2m 56s
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FeatureManager search1m 48s
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Selection tricks1m 33s
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Using the Tab key to hide and show2m 3s
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Selection option rotation using the A key1m 27s
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Enter key for Repeat Last Command1m 18s
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Power trim tricks1m 58s
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Recover the popup bar2m 31s
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Quick reference planes1m 15s
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Command search1m 39s
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Drag and drop from search1m
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Export to DXF/DWG 1:16m 53s
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Breadcrumb tricks3m 11s
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Freehand sketching in Sketch Ink1m 45s
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Auto Sketch Entities for Sketch Ink2m 16s
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Sketch Ink Ruler1m 28s
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Sketch Ink Protractor1m 40s
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Touch with Sketch Ink1m 29s
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Freehand markup3m 59s
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Bounding Box in assemblies2m 39s
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eDrawings webpage creation2m 11s
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Treehouse custom properties58s
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Defeature Silhouette5m 21s
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Exploded View improvements1m 36s
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External References for SOLIDWORKS 20191m 14s
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Save an assembly as a part2m 35s
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Interference detection for multibody parts1m 2s
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3D textures3m 22s
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SOLIDWORKS open times1m 35s
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Arc length2m 35s
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Reference length3m 11s
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Zoom to fit tricks1m 1s
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Create a plane on the end of line2m 56s
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Trim tool enhancements1m 40s
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Weldment corners3m 6s
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Smart patterns8m 49s
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Sensors2m 1s
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Shell only one section3m 28s
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Square spring4m 47s
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Using equal curvature1m 57s
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Fun with magnetic mates4m 6s
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Direct editing: Delete Hole2m 22s
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Direct editing: Move Face tricks4m
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Sketching: Disable auto relations58s
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Using the reload command2m 4s
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Tricks for saving parts for 3D printing6m 12s
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Using the Biad to sketch1m 21s
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Fun with intersections3m 36s
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Previous Selection1m 5s
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Select Other1m 28s
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Change a face from solid to transparent1m 22s
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Using files from other software packages3m 5s
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Select Tangency1m 49s
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Selection Filters: F5 and F63m 41s
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Save SOLIDWORKS settings2m 10s
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Flat Tree View1m 14s
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Collapse a tree55s
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Folders in the tree2m 17s
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Custom views1m 41s
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Custom views in drawings1m 43s
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Rotate about an entity1m 27s
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Normal To1m 3s
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Zoom to Selection1m 16s
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Rotate about the scene floor1m 27s
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Reference triad1m 9s
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Quickly add sketch relationships1m 3s
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Lasso Selection1m 52s
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Zoom to Selection1m 20s
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Save As with References2m 46s
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Viewing a part in wireframe1m 25s
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Close sketch to model1m 23s
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SketchXpert1m 50s
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Invert Selection55s
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Single command per pick1m 21s
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Derived Sketch2m 28s
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Pierce vs. coincident1m 31s
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Reset Dragging59s
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Feature Freeze1m 27s
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Importing a mesh body3m 30s
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Converting to a mesh body3m 45s
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Opening ScanTo3D mesh files4m 3s
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Mesh Prep Wizard5m 5s
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ScanTo3D and Curve Wizard6m 18s
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Decimate Mesh Body4m 10s
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Segment Imported Mesh Body tool1m 46s
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ScanTo3D: Mesh Edit1m 55s
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Surface From Mesh tool2m 44s
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ScanTo3D: Surface Wizard3m 31s
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Using MeshLab3m 21s
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Simplifying a huge mesh in MeshLab2m 28s
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3D textures3m 16s
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Creating multiple planes at once2m 12s
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Using surface intersections for complex modeling3m 3s
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Add hardware to assemblies1m 51s
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Sketch-driven component patterns2m 55s
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View multiple drawing sheets at the same time59s
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Auto-add item quantity to balloons58s
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Create leaders to point to multiple items3m 2s
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Move a view from one sheet to the next2m 20s
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Fix a description that's too long1m 52s
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Mate parts with Lock Rotation1m 43s
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Search for options within SOLIDWORKS1m 17s
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Display objects inside assemblies in different ways1m 27s
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Specify grain direction1m 26s
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Create and use reference blocks4m 12s
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Geometry without in-context references5m 1s
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Create reference lines for sketches3m 31s
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Path link dimension2m 10s
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Use a block as a reference for a part4m 4s
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Reformat a bill of materials list3m 17s
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Export a bill of materials list2m 22s
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Create a reference block in an assembly3m 28s
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Use properties of drawing notes1m 49s
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Work with boundary surfaces2m 36s
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Use boundary surface control points2m 12s
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How to use the Check tool3m 3s
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