Suppress by Component Reference and Text File?

SOLIDWORKS How To Questions
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Is there a method that anyone knows of, that would allow me to have a text file with a list of references, and then be able to suppress components in a SW assembly based on this Text File and the Component References in SW? e.g. I would have a text file with a list of;

U129
U133
U135

Which I would then apply in SW and the components with these Component References would be suppressed;

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Not without a macro.

3

ouch! This looks a lot harder than using the design table.
unless you find a way to show the reference in the table and then be able to change the state in the table.

4

I tried both equations and a design table but neither appears to be able to the referernce the “Component Reference” field.

You can control both by the . In the case of equations you can export a linked text file which gives real time updates when loading the model. The design table can reference an external file as well but you must open the design table to get it to update. There are macros to do that though.

5

Macro feature would work nicely. It would update on each rebuild.

6

Thanks gang.

Also posted this on Swym and John has come through with exactly what I was looking for, so if anyone else faces this scenario this does the job nicely;