Update: I've got the edit STEP file part working. :) So it opens the STEP file, searches for the lines with the partnames in them and adds a prefix in front of the file name. Then saves it. Need some more time to complete it to a nice user friendly macro with user interface, so you can set the save ...

Hey thanks for the quick reply. Stefan Sterk ok did not think that renaming and not saving would work, but it is worth a try! (I am not really getting with you mean with your point 2b?) JSculley Good thing, for this particular case this can work really well. I must admit I have never worked with Reg...

Hi all, wow what an amazing community and source of knowledge! New here and tagging along for the ride :) Little introduction: I'm a design engineer from the Netherlands and using Solidworks 20+ years. I don't like when things don't work the way I would like them to, so that's why I ventured into th...