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When I cancel the creation of a sketch/feature/whatever and restart it the naming system keeps increasing automatically (which makes sense), but I want it to overwrite the non-existing features.

Is it possible to do? Manually renaming it fix the counting, but still is a boring practice.

I agree it can be tiresome, there's a couple of habits you can foster to help but I think you are best not worrying about it too much and/or renaming to meaningful names.

Instead of cancelling, try undo.

If it's a small part you can reload the document quickly.

A macro is probably best solution

You can tidy up your tree with this macro: https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-ap ... uentially/ and after it should continue with the next available number as the index for new feature

Rob wrote: ↑Fri Aug 06, 2021 1:57 am Instead of cancelling, try undo.

Unfortunately Undo also increases the counting number

Usually I ignore it or start renaming from the beginning when I know it will be a complex part; but most of times it is a little complex and just bothers me to stop to fix it. lol

artem wrote: ↑Fri Aug 06, 2021 2:31 am You can tidy up your tree with this macro: https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-ap ... uentially/ and after it should continue with the next available number as the index for new feature

Thank you, worked fine here.



May I ask any suggestion of site/reading to start learning Solidworks Macros? I just know basic programming and am postponing this.

My best suggestion is to ignore those numbers. I do it just fine. If you can't or don't want to do that, re-name the features, sketches, etc to something that actually describes their function or purpose instead of just using numbers.

Lucas wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 9:27 pm When I cancel the creation of a sketch/feature/whatever and restart it the naming system keeps increasing automatically (which makes sense), but I want it to overwrite the non-existing features.

Is it possible to do?
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Manually renaming it fix the counting, but still is a boring practice.

Just rename Sketch4 to Sketch3. From then on, then next sketch will be Sketch4.

Try it out.

Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Fri Aug 06, 2021 8:15 am My best suggestion is to ignore those numbers. I do it just fine. If you can't or don't want to do that, re-name the features, sketches, etc to something that actually describes their function or purpose instead of just using numbers.

Usually I name it, but lots of parts is pretty useless to name everything and would be nice to have the names just in order .-.

dpihlaja wrote: ↑Fri Aug 06, 2021 11:02 am Just rename Sketch4 to Sketch3. From then on, then next sketch will be Sketch4.
Try it out.

That's how I have been dealing with it. lol
thanks