http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse SolidWorks Labs Products Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:50:24 GMT Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:50:24 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-147
For 2D drawing file's best name is same to the source part or asm file automatically.
If not, difficult to find the correct 2D drawing file from the part or asm file in the future or open with RMB from the feature tree.

I would like integration with the PDM.

Export to SolidWorks is very slow, even with simple structures.
I don't understand how it can be slow because exported files are empty, apart from referenced files texts strings included.]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:31:37 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-147 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-146
For 2D drawing file's best name is same to the souce part or asm file automaticly.
If not, difficult to find the correct 2D drawing file from the part or asm file in the future or open with RMB from the feature tree.]]> Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:23:25 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-146 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-145 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:59:17 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-145 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-144
Treehouse 2 is compatible with Windows 7 x64 and SolidWorks 2009/2010. There must be something specific to your configuration that causes Treehouse to fail. Please send an e-mail to labsfeedback@solidworks.com and we will further investigate your problem.

Thanks,

Charles
SW Labs QA]]> Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:04:49 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-144 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-143 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:18:18 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-143 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-142
This is shaping up to be a very useful tool.]]> Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:08:50 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-142 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-141 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:17:06 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-141 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-140 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:44:12 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-140 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-135
"An older version of SolidWorks is running. Please exit it before exporting. Version running: 17.4.1".

If I close SW2009, nothing happens (no files are created in my destination folder).

If I have SW2010 PR1 active, I get the following error:

"An older version of SolidWorks is running. Please exit it before exporting. Version running: 18.-5.0".

Any suggestions?]]> Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:23:55 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-135 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-94
1 - Long names. Typically our file format for major assemblies without our machines are "number station description", so naming something "123 456 B0 STA 01 LOAD COMPONENT" is a pretty typical filename. Problem here is that the tree view shows me the first 9 characters and some dots indicating that the name is longer than it likes to show. Frustrating when you're trying to see what you've already done and have to click each individual filename and scroll through with the arrow keys to see the rest.

2 - Linking to existing files. Pretty much the only way to survive in business, even in custom machinery, is to use standard subassemblies that do common things. Not being able to drag an assembly of a common component into the tree is pretty hindering.

3 - Export feature. Each custom machine we build uses a machine-specific assembly template for top level assemblies, and standard assembly templates for the rest. Obviously, this is not possible in the program's current configuration.

Other then all this, it seems like a great start. I very much hope to see this progress, as I definitely would put it to good use.]]> Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:25:00 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-94 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-90
Do this and this would make SW explorer much easier to use.]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:43:32 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-90 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-82
Existing parts, assemblies, drawings easy to include
Ability to add custom icons for vendor purchased parts
Ability to add stuff like glue, pipe, cables, wire, etc
Ability to reshape the layout more to my liking - horizontal lines instead of diagonal, etc.
Ability to switch subassemblies and other icons on and off (explode and implode BOMs)
Ability to reference other trees without showing them
Ability to change color, shape etc of icons for specific requirements.
Tie ins to Parts and Vendors and similar. i.e. if I create a part in P&V, it creates an icon in Treehouse - and vice versa.
Hyperlink capability for each icon to other drawings assemblies, images, spec documents, test procedures, ECNs, etc.
Hyperlink icons to web addresses
Autocreation of part numbers to our standards
Auto add parts created with bottom up design in S/W

The final requirement is that the finished S/W assembly and Treehouse should match exactly. i.e Treehouse IS the BOM.

I can do most of this in Powerpoint now, so you've got to come up with something really special to make me change!

bp]]> Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:53:27 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-82 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-76 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:02:40 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-76 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-68 http://solidworksheard.com/podcast/49-sw-labs/53-swh-ep187]]> Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:40:38 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-68 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-63 One more important point...after exporting it to solidworks templete, there is no linkage between tree & the files.....the gateways should be in both ways....just like the design table in SW.

Waiting for the updation of this toool....]]> Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:14:15 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-63 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-60 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:50:17 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-60 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-58
"What would be REALLY sweet is if you could add existing Parts/Assemblies to the tree."

Taking parts/assemblies for existing designs to create a layout structure for New designs.]]> Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:48:24 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-58 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-55
SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Client creates a "Vault View" in the location you specify, which behaves like a virtual folder. It is our experience that using Treehouse to create SolidWorks documents directly in an EPDM Vault View works very smoothly.

Thanks!]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:10:32 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-55 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-54
but for 2D drawing file's best name is same to the souce part or asm file automaticly. if not, difficult to find the correct 2D drawing file from the part or asm file in the future]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:21:53 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-54 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-49
During a test run this morning, I created a top level assembly with parts and several levels of sub-assemblies under it. Drawings were defined for all assemblies, subs and parts. Treehouse found all my templates without help, so it's menu already included my part/metric part template as well as the various drawing templates - ASME a,b,c, etc..

I assigned unique names to all documents in the tree. The tree was then sent to Solidworks with a one button click. On opening the top level assembly in S/Ws, the feature tree showed (as expected) the entire structure with all names in place. Drawings were linked.

This is NICE. There will surely be more files added as a typical projects moves forward, but this is a great organizational start.]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:45:58 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-49 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-48
Is there a way to get it to save in a epdm vault folder directly?]]> Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:41:37 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-48 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-47 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:30:34 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-47 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-46 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:38:38 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-46 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-44
Oleg Shilovitsky
www.plmtwine.com
http://plmtwine.com/2008/12/09/top-down-plm-approach-…-from-solidworks-labs/]]> Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:20:56 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-44 http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-43
Also, I see that if the template has Custom properties in it you can use the custom properties... but.. it would be even better if you could select a custom properties tab to use.

Al in all great work... I see this being a VERY useful tool!!]]> Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:46:00 GMT http://labs.solidworks.com/Products/product.aspx?name=treehouse#comment-43