Getting OS properties into SW?

billy2

Any one figure out how to push the properties to SW from OS?

MBartlett21

What do you mean by properties?

billy2

All those variables contained in a file that translators seem to miss.

I've looked at open BOM, Lou's google sheet app & writing my own stuff. Thinking I'll use Lou's app for starters. Maybe after that I'll write something that'll go full circle, there & back. 

NeilCooke

@billy2 - extracting the data from Onshape using the API is easy enough - writing the data to a SW file is also easy, providing you have a current subscription and a Doc Mgr API key (https://www.javelin-tech.com/blog/2017/04/solidworks-document-manager-api-key/). It used to be freely available but they changed their policies to prevent non-paying third parties from accessing file properties (aka non-SW PDM products).

billy2

I've been reading up on javelins stuff looking for a solution. They seem to have some good ideas.

I'm trying not to write anything in VB or C# and may just cut'n paste to get back into SW. Also, all that licensing crap, what are they thinking? That just makes this little project more difficult. Do you know if I wrote a little macro that parses a file, it won't run with a license?

Pulling stuff out of OS is easy enough and putting it into a csv format so it'll paste into windows.

NeilCooke

@billy2 - correct, you need a current subscription (doc mgr license) to run your macro - they also scramble the file format every release so you can't use your previous doc mgr license (this is why it takes us a few months before we can import files from their current release).

brucebartlett

It would be also great to get properties form SW into Onshape, link to the parts