SOLIDWORKS Electrical Create Custom Date Format

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Article by Kate Hedberg on Feb 07, 2018

When setting up a SOLIDWORKS Electrical project configuration, it’s important to have the correct formats set in place. Whether this is driven by industry drafting standards or user preference, it’s critical to be able to change the date format.

In SOLIDWORKS Electrical, there are a couple of default date formats:

dd/mm/yyyy	ex: 16/02/2018
mm/dd/yyyy	ex: 02/16/2018
mmm dd yyyy	ex: February 16 2018

If these out-of-the-box formats aren’t appropriate for a specific application, it becomes necessary to create a custom format. For this example, I’m creating a date format that meets the ASME requirements of year-month-day.

To do this, go to the Project tab click on the Configurations button to go to the Project Configuration.

SOLIDWORKS Electrical Custom Date Format

In the Display Format row, select any option other than System date.

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Then in the Display Format row, type %Y-%m-%d.

Any other characters that aren’t preceded by % will be static characters. The variables that can be used for dates are listed below:

Variable	Description	Example Result
%Y	Year on 4 characters	2018
%y	Year on 2 characters	18
%m	Month on 2 characters	02
%B	Month’s name	February
%b	Month’s name shortened	Feb
%d	Day on 2 characters	16
%A	Day of the week	Friday
%a	Day of the week shortened	Fri
%c	System time stamp	2018-02-16 1:58:38 PM

%T	24 Hour clock time hours, minutes and seconds	13:58:38
%R	24 Hour clock time hours and minutes	13:58
%r	12 Hour clock time	1:58:38 PM
%M	Minute	58
%S	Second	38
%p	Meridiem Period (AM/PM)	PM
%j	Order of day in the year out of 365	47
%D	System date with slashes	02/16/2018

Then click the Test button in the Preview row.

SOLIDWORKS Electrical Create a Custom Date Format

Click OK when you've finished, and move on with your life, worry-free.

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