Recently, Joy Garon, a SolidWorks Product Manager, shared an email with me that she received from Devon Sowell who is not only a SolidWorks user, but, someone who spends time helping other SolidWorks users. Devon, recently launched his own Blog<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":3454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Taskscheduler1_1\"](\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/taskscheduler1_11.jpg\" "\\"Taskscheduler1_1\\"")
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\nMy task was to bulk load 25 Custom Properties fields into new SolidWorks templates.<\/em> They were required in all flavors of Templates; Drawings, Assemblies, and Parts. When I first tried the Task Scheduler, it would not recognize the existing Template file. Hmmm, now what?<\/p>\n![\"Emptyswfiles2\"](\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/emptyswfiles21.jpg\" "\\"Emptyswfiles2\\"")
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\nEasy, I just created empty SolidWorks files, in all flavors. Then I dumped them all into one folder on my Desktop. Next, I used the Task Scheduler to bulk load the Custom Property fields in these files. Finally, I Saved them as Templates into the appropriate folder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"