Over the next few moments,
we're going to take a look at the Tremec
SolidWorks property tool.
Once launched, I'm
going to start by scanning folder of data.
So I'll just direct it to a folder
where I know
there's some files
I want to extract the metadata from.
I can choose the filter
based on file type.
Choose the output format
which could be Excel.
In this case, we've also got XML or JSON
and text files if we choose.
And I'll generate that file
as soon as that is finished.
Didn't take very long.
I can open that straight up
and I can look at the results.
You'll notice a number of column headers
for each of these files,
including the file name.
File name also includes the full path.
So I am working within a group
a bunch of data
where there may be duplicate file names.
I can still update those files
based on the full path.
There's also internal SolidWorks
properties and custom properties.
You will notice some intentional gaps in
my data here, which I'm going to populate.
But whilst we're doing
that, I'm just going to touch on the fact
that you may notice under
the weight column and the material column
some syntax.
So where there's some values,
there's also just S.W.
mass and S.W. material.
That's because I chose the option
to export the data
not based on the evaluated value,
but on the syntax itself.
The benefit of
that is that when I populate those files
now based off that file,
it it's ready to read the information
from the Solr works
physical properties of the file.
Okay.
So it doesn't take very long
to populate the files.
You'll notice there is another option
on that form to delete custom properties.
I actually did that as part of the
updating of the properties in this case.
So I didn't need to run that,
but any fields I'd removed
the metadata from it would have deleted
that custom property as well.
For me.
As part of that, back in my PDM vault,
I've created a project
in my legacy folder area
which I'm dragging those files into.
The reason I've chosen legacy is
I've got a bit more flex
and control
as to how I bring this data in,
for example,
overwriting the revision on the data card
and not assigning a new part number
as a default value on the data card,
and so
You can see in the example
that where we've got things like S.W.
material, S.W.
mass, they're probably files
that I've just generated
that information into, but I still need to
or may want to synchronize that data
from the Solo works model.
So I can just quickly open
one of these files.
And once opened, all I really need to do
is just save that file.
And if that file has a material assigned,
then it's all In this case though,
when we do look at the data card,
we can see in the feature manager
that actually isn't a material assigned
at this stage.
However, because the syntax is already
being populated, I can go ahead,
assign a material, hit save,
and we're going to see that come through.
Now on to the data
card along with the mass.
You also
spot a drop list
at the bottom of that page for status.
That's something we're going to use
as part of the lifecycle process.
When we push the data
that we've brought in
through into the prime primary workflow
within our system.
Before that, let's just take a quick
look at a drawing
and just show how we can reinforce that
in the same way.
I've got a drawing
which is a model linked to it.
If the model had its properties
not fully populated
and they're used in the drawing border,
then I may just want to synchronize
everything back to the data card
here as well.
Coming back to that drop list,
you'll see I've got two options
I've got approved
and I've got work in progress under
And in this case
I'm going to leave it as approved,
which is actually the default
on the data card.
And what that means is I am assuming
that when I bring in a folder
into the legacy, into the legacy
folder structure,
and I push that into the workflow,
the destination of those files
will be approved.
Now I can change that.
As you saw there, I could choose that
to be work in progress.
the outcome would essentially be, let's
say it had revision C on the data card.
If it says approved, it's going to get
stamped as revision C and be approved.
If it says work in progress,
it's actually stamped in the background
has only been a revision B,
then when it's subsequently approved
because it's added work in progress,
it gets released at revision C.
Just completing this transition.
Now we can see there's no errors
as we would expect,
because we just simply drag
this data in to the vault.
And when we expect the data card,
there is the revision C
that we were hoping to see based on what
we've just discussed with the
the legacy information
and the ability to pre
prepare that data or post-process
that data after dragging it in.
So there hopefully you can see how useful
that would be in preparing your data prior
to a data migration.
Thank you.