Hello all, The company I work for places ID tags on one of the components in our product. In the past ID tags have been purchased from a vendor that would stamp numbers on a .5” x 1” piece of 18ga (.047”) sheet metal. The company has asked us to cut and etch these items in-house. This is not the is…

See if this type of thing will meet your requirement… TLDR: One part file for the tag Sketch text on the tag for the number Sketch text is linked to custom property Part level design table used to instantly genereate/update 500 configs that vary only by custom property. Assembly with an array …

Maybe something from this thread: [image] Solidworks Sequential Numbering SolidWorks FAQ Most of this was pulled from other sources to credit must go to Marc-Xavier Bilodeau for figuring this out. Often times you will have an array of holes, features etc that …

I’ve used a couple of different engraving software, and they all had built in tools for sequential numbering. Is that an option?

I do not believe it would be. The company that makes the Laser also has their own programming software and it does not play well with other software packages.

Josh, Thanks for this. It works well to make the tags we are looking for. Now we just need to see if we can overcome some hurdles within the programming software.

Sequential ID Tags

SOLIDWORKS Macro Library

JimSculley January 28, 2026, 8:15pm 2

Maybe something from this thread: