If you’ve added a new license of SOLIDWORKS since July 1st, 2023, you’ve probably noticed that your SOLIDWORKS license also contains Collaborative Designer for SOLIDWORKS. This license connects your SOLIDWORKS to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. A major benefit of the role is the ability to share SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies, and drawings with other users without sharing the physical files or downloading large and complicated external software. The only requirement is a 3DEXPERIENCE ID login.
In SOLIDWORKS drawings, it's possible to link properties from either the drawing or the model to populate title blocks or annotations within specific drawing views. But wouldn't it be nice if you could specify which properties to display by simply pasting a bit of code into the text boxes? In the following examples, we'll use properties from a SOLIDWORKS drawing, an assembly model used for said drawing, and one of its components.