http://www.solidsmack.com/solidworks-tips-for-tags-on-parts-assemblies/2008-03-20/ SolidWorks 3D CAD Blog with SolidWorks Tips, CAD News, Technology and Product Design Sat, 17 May 2008 09:16:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.solidsmack.com/solidworks-tips-for-tags-on-parts-assemblies/2008-03-20/#comment-4415 Josh Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:35:01 +0000 http://www.solidsmack.com/solidworks-tips-for-tags-on-parts-assemblies/2008-03-20/#comment-4415 :) horrible! good stuff man. you're right though. the tags need to be modifiable or be able to be linked. I definitely would not add tags that would risk needing to change, granted, the one you pick and think will not change would probably end up being the one that did. There's for sure some meta-data in there already that needs to be utilized. The two you mention are great. Could add display state props, color/finish attributes, part/feature/assembly attributes, etc. that are in the model. Thanks man! horrible! good stuff man. you’re right though. the tags need to be modifiable or be able to be linked. I definitely would not add tags that would risk needing to change, granted, the one you pick and think will not change would probably end up being the one that did. There’s for sure some meta-data in there already that needs to be utilized. The two you mention are great. Could add display state props, color/finish attributes, part/feature/assembly attributes, etc. that are in the model. Thanks man!

]]> http://www.solidsmack.com/solidworks-tips-for-tags-on-parts-assemblies/2008-03-20/#comment-4346 John Burrill Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:59:19 +0000 http://www.solidsmack.com/solidworks-tips-for-tags-on-parts-assemblies/2008-03-20/#comment-4346 No Damnit, no! It's another piece of arbitrary information that has to be maintained. Tell me, if you copy the IB256 assembly to create the IB297 assembly using Solidworks explorer, is anything besides my tired widdle typing finger going to change the tag that say's PPAP item to Non-PPAP item? Is anything besides my admittedly spotty memory going to prompt me to change the tag definition? Is anyone besides me-who slaved and agonized and and ran up a bunch of unbillable hours implementing tags going to use the things? Can I link a tag to a dimension value, a folder name, a revision attribute. Can I make a tag say 'blue' instead of 'red' when I change the part colour to one of my hundreds of unnamed, yet vastly re-usable color swatches? Crap, it's like having another line on your 1040 that only says 'additional information here'. No, I say, No, until Solidworks integrates the technology into it's core data structure and allows it's internal information to propogate to these input points, I think they're less useful than a postit note. I refuse to indulge another pointless populating control when I still can't get an annotation with a drawing view scale or a file extension. I have said horrible things, here. No Damnit, no!
It’s another piece of arbitrary information that has to be maintained. Tell me, if you copy the IB256 assembly to create the IB297 assembly using Solidworks explorer, is anything besides my tired widdle typing finger going to change the tag that say’s PPAP item to Non-PPAP item? Is anything besides my admittedly spotty memory going to prompt me to change the tag definition? Is anyone besides me-who slaved and agonized and and ran up a bunch of unbillable hours implementing tags going to use the things?
Can I link a tag to a dimension value, a folder name, a revision attribute. Can I make a tag say ‘blue’ instead of ‘red’ when I change the part colour to one of my hundreds of unnamed, yet vastly re-usable color swatches?
Crap, it’s like having another line on your 1040 that only says ‘additional information here’.
No, I say, No, until Solidworks integrates the technology into it’s core data structure and allows it’s internal information to propogate to these input points, I think they’re less useful than a postit note. I refuse to indulge another pointless populating control when I still can’t get an annotation with a drawing view scale or a file extension.
I have said horrible things, here.

]]> http://www.solidsmack.com/solidworks-tips-for-tags-on-parts-assemblies/2008-03-20/#comment-4311 Brian Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:24:21 +0000 http://www.solidsmack.com/solidworks-tips-for-tags-on-parts-assemblies/2008-03-20/#comment-4311 This is actually one of the new features of 2008 that I was pretty excited about, as I use them all over the web and see their usefulness. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to upgrade from 2007 due to a project at work. If it goes much longer, we may end up skipping 2008 altogether... :( This is actually one of the new features of 2008 that I was pretty excited about, as I use them all over the web and see their usefulness. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to upgrade from 2007 due to a project at work. If it goes much longer, we may end up skipping 2008 altogether…

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