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Names and values of all properties can be extracted via ICustomPropertyManager::GetAll3 SOLIDWORKS API method.Дim swCustPrpMgr As SldWorks. Refer the Read All Properties for the example of reading properties one-by one from all property sources: file, configuration and cut list. The method returns the value indicating if property was read from cache, was resolved or didnвЂ™t exist. if the property derived from the parent part) value *0.00 value of Weight property in the snapshot above), but in all my tests this property always equals to True SOLIDWORKS API Help documentation states that this flag would be equal to False if cached value is retrieved from the configuration which was never activated (e.g. Evaluated Value - resolved value of the property.Property Value (text expression) is a static value or the formula of the property.This method allows to extract comprehensive information about the property. Unresolved configuration specific custom property

#SOLIDWORKS API VBA UPDATE#

This option would imply performance penalty as model will be regenerated to update properties. Alternatively when cached option is set to False values will be resolved if needed, that means that SOLIDWORKS might activate the configuration to resolved the value which may mark model as dirty. This means that the returned values might not be up-to-date for the properties defined with configuration specific equations, such as weight, dimension value, volume etc. When cached option is used, properties are read from the cached storage. The cached flag of ::GetX method only applies to configurations, as both general and cut-list properties are not configuration specific. Get6 ( prpName, cached, prpVal, prpResVal, wasResolved, isLinked ) Dim prpVal As String Dim prpResVal As String Dim wasResolved As Boolean Dim isLinked As Boolean Dim res As Long res = swCustPrpMgr. Note, you might need to use older version of this method, such as ::Get5, ::Get4 depending on the target version of SOLIDWORKS.Дim swCustPrpMgr As SldWorks. Value and additional information of a specific property can be retrieved by property name via ICustomPropertyManager::Get6 SOLIDWORKS API method.

There are 2 general ways of reading the values of custom properties. It is also possible to read configuration specific cut-list properties using Document Manager API.

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Refer Read Component Cut-List Properties macro for code example. This method doesnвЂ™t require to activate the configuration of the componentвЂ™s model to resolve the configuration specific cut-list properties. It is however possible to read the configuration specific cut-list properties from the referenced configuration of the component in the assembly by retrieving assembly context pointer to the cut-list feature.

If it is required to retrieved the configuration specific values of cut-list property, manually activate the configuration via IModelDoc2::ShowConfiguration2 method. length could be resolved to different values in different configurations) SOLIDWORKS API doesnвЂ™t recognize this functionality and only provides values of the active configuration of the part document.

CustomPropertyManagerДЄlthough cut-lists can contain the configuration specific properties (e.g. CustomPropertyManager Set swCustPrpMgr = swCutListFeat. In order to connect to file specific (general) custom properties, it is required to call the IModelDocExtension::CustomPropertyManager property and pass an empty string as a property parameter.Дim swCutListFeat As SldWorks. The methods of this interface behave in the same way for all of the above group of properties and the only difference in a way of retrieving the instance of this interface.

Managing Properties Via Document ManagerДЄll types of custom properties: file specific (general), configuration specific or cut-lists can be managed in unified way via ICustomPropertyManager interface.

In this blog article I will go through various applications and code example for managing custom properties using SOLIDWORKS API. This includes but not limited to large applications such as PDM systems, ERP integrations, change management, quality control and small automation macros such as properties sorting, copying etc. Despite there are only 4 basic APIs available via ICustomPropertyManager interface for reading, writing, modifying and deleting properties, there is endless number of possible application could be written based on those APIs. Custom properties automation is one of the most demanding parts of SOLIDWORKS API.

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