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Equations formatting help

Adam Harris

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I'm trying to write a large number of equations using Excel and copy them into SolidWorks. The isue i'm encoutnering is the quotation mark form in SW is different from the form in Word/Excel, and the equations wont work. If I go through and delete and retype each quotation mark manually, the equation works fine. Does anyone know what the proper font/format for the quotation is, or more importantly, how I can get Word to produce the proper notation so that I can simply copy and paste the equations from Word/text document to the Solidworks Equation editor?


-Adam
 
Use the Concatenate function in Excel to spit out something like

A&nbsp ; B C D
Driven Dim Param1 Param2 CONCATENATE(",A1, " = ", (B1-C1)*2,")

The D column can be Copied into Solid Works equation editor.
"D1@F2" = "D2@F1 - D1@F1"

It may take some trying out until it displays properly with the Quotations. Look in Excel Help for more information and proper formating for using values and text. I do know that the export Column should be of the Text Format Type.

Michael
 

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