customproperties customtools 2011 for solidworks®

CustomTools 2011CustomTools 2011For SolidWorks®

Quickly insert a date

For SolidWorks®Batch printing and file conversionsAll the printing and conversion processes have been automated and are no longer time-consuming tasks. Print and convert all your drawings at once. You can associate a sheet format to a printer, paper size and orientation. The following conversion formats are supported: Pdf, Jpeg, Tif, Dwg, Dxf, & eDrawings. In addition, you can batch translate the custom properties and title blocks of your drawings or/and convert the sheet formats during your batch operations. - Key features: o Always print to the right size, orientation and printer o Convert & Rename your files in multiple formats o Convert the sheet format & Translate your drawings o Assign custom property per batch process (e.g. project name, RAL color,...)

Locate where parts are being usedQuickly identify where a specific part or sub-assembly has been used. Since a file may be referenced by different assemblies, it is a good practice to check where a file is used before making any modifications. - Key features: o Locate where a part is being used o Avoid costly mistakes o Preview all the files where the part is used

Manage customer specific custom propertiesFill custom properties per entity which can be e.g. customer or order. Allowing you to have different values for specific custom properties for a SolidWorks file. - Key features o Enter custom properties per order/customer without need to copy original file o Batch print or convert drawings using selected order/customer custom property values o Locate SolidWorks files based on order information

Quickly insert notes in your drawingsCustomTools allows you to save your notes into the database, this way you do not have to type the same notes over and over again. - Key features: o Quickly insert a note o View the notes made by other designers o Everyone uses same notes.

Customize your drawingsYou can quickly insert your custom properties and revisions tables into your drawings/drawing templates. The custom properties and layers can be translated during your batch printing and conversion operations. - Key features: o Quickly insert custom properties o Manage the visibility of a layer during a batch operation o Quickly customize your drawing(s)/drawing template(s)

Open your drawings in a couple of clicksWhen working on a specific part or assembly, designers can spend a lot of time locating and opening related drawings. CustomTools gives you the ability to open a referenced drawings from a selected entity that can be part, assembly or component. -Key features: o Drawing name can differ from its referenced model o Possibility to have a drawing per configuration o Preview each drawing and its sheets

Copy and rename your SolidWorks documentsWith CustomTools you can easily copy, move or rename the assem-bly. It will automatically update all referenced models and related drawings for you. You do not have to copy and rename each one separately anymore; everything has been automated. - Key features: o Copy, rename and move all your files at once o Use your naming rules to rename files o All the references and links are maintained

CustomTools ViewerCustomTools Viewer provides viewing access to SolidWorks parts, assemblies and drawings. In addition to providing all eDrawings® viewing capabilities, it also allows users to access similar features to those provided in SolidWorks add-in. - Key features: o View the custom properties o Batch printing o Locate where a part is being used o Open the drawings of the active 3D model o Advanced search tool

Download a 30 days full evaluation licenseat www.customtools.info

Automate your daily routinesCustomTools has been designed to automate the most time consuming routines and to bring consistency to the users of SolidWorks. With CustomTools you can be sure that you will invest in savings. As once mentioned by the SolidWorks found-ers: “No matter how easy it is to use, it is never easy enough” and “No matter how fast we make it, it is never fast enough”, if you think that this is still true today, then you should consider CustomTools.

Advanced custom property managementThe custom properties are managed through profiles that can be defined based on the type of user (e.g. project manager, designers…). The CustomProperty pane is fully configurable and integrated into SolidWorks. This allows users to find documents based on their custom properties. - Key features: o Improve the management of your custom properties o Link your CustomProperties with your ERP o Easy and consistent management of your properties

Automatic file naming and savingGenerate file names based on your own naming conventions. Define an unlimited number of sequences and combine them to other custom properties to generate a file name. CustomTools offers many different ways and tools to automate the naming of your files (e.g. sequences, smart numbers,...). - Key features: o In case model name changes, referenced drawings names are also automatically updated o Combine custom properties to name your files o The sequences are shared among the designers

Bidirectional link with ERP/MRP systemsCustomTools gives you the ability to connect SolidWorks to a corporate ERP system and link custom properties with items in your ERP. You can also connect to almost any other types of external database. You can search items directly from the ERP and link an unlimited number of attributes to your custom properties. - Key features: o Link & Synchronize custom properties with ERP items o Export your BOM to your ERP o Create new items in your ERP from SW

Link a dimension of your model to a custom property in one click

Create, search, link and/or synchronize items in your ERP with your 3D models’ custom properties

Select and set a color for you parts

Manage SW based/Custom material. The mass will reflect the changes

Define your revisions in a unique way

Define your own look up list (Possibility to retrieve values from an external database)

Combine custom proper-ties together to create a new one

Create key value pair look up lists (e.g. Delta=1, Alpha=2,...)

Use your own language dictionary

Insert SolidWorks or CutomTools default value, autofill available

Use your custom proper-ties to name your drawings or/and models

Configuration specific

Fully configurable for parts, assembly, drawings &weldments

Compulsory custom property

CustomProperties

Action:

Document Information:

Designer Information:

Mass Properties:

Dimensions:

Generate your own sequences

Delta-500-PL180.00X10.00X110.00

Default

All configuration

Default

Filename

DWG name

Document code

Item Number

Description

Description 1

Description 2

Customer

Customer Nb

GermanDescription

Unit

ItemCategoryProductCategory

Revision

Designer

Design date

Approved

Approve date

Mass

Density

RAL Color

Material type

Dimensions

Dim 1

Dim 2

Dim 3

Cut length

Material information:StandardEditable material

PL180.00X10.00X110.00

PL180.00X10.00X110.00-2

00010

I20056

Table plate

Toolbox

Werkzeugkasten

Delta Manufacturing

2

Pcs

Material

Office chair

2

John Miller

04/01/2010

07/01/2010

Amanda Griffin

455,04

1000 kg/m3

RAL 1003 Signal yellow

Plate

PL180.00X10.00X110.00

180.00

10.00

110.00

Item linked in the ERP

AND MUCH MORE!!!

User based default value

AlluAlluminium EN AW-2014Alluminium EN AW-20175

Remembers last used values