SWECompare - Solid Works Equation File Comparison Tool.

Table of Contents

• About SWECompare
• Screenshots
• Installation
• How to use SWECompare to compare two equation files
• How to use SWECompare to compare multiple equation files with the first
• How to use SWECompare to find unused variables
• How to use SWECompare to find unused variables that may be defined in other files
• License

About SWECompare

    SolidWorks 2023 Maker Version does not allow multiple parts to share a single global variable file. This is more than inconvenient; SWECompare is a node.js tool that tries to resolve this by comparing exported equation files accordingly.
So why not use diff? Well?

• I needed the ability to ignore missing comments.
• I needed the ability to audit for unused variables that may be in an equation file or maybe another.
• Exported files can contain different equations like "d1@Something" which needs to be ignored

Screenshots

Installation

    SWECompare is a Node.js tool with no other dependancies; So it works as easily on Linux as it does on Windows. The only thing you must do is install node.js.

• Install Node.js
• For Node.js to recognized in your PATH, open a new terminal window.
• Run SWECompare. i.e. node SWECompare -h

How to use SWECompare to compare two equation files

    Run SWECompare specifying both equation files.

For Example:

   node SWECompare equationsFile1.txt equationsFile2.txt

To ignore comments that may be different, specify -ic To compare file2 with file1 also specify -r (Valid for two files only)

How to use SWECompare to compare multiple equation files with the first

    Run SWECompare specifying multiple equation files.

For Example:

   node SWECompare equationsFile1.txt equationsFile2.txt equationsFile3

How to use SWECompare to find unused variables

    Run SWECompare specifying a single equations files.

For Example:

   node SWECompare equationsFile.txt

How to use SWECompare to find unused variables that may be defined in other files

    Run SWECompare specifying a single equations files.

For Example:

   node SWECompare -v equationsFile.txt anotherEquationsFile.txt orEvenAnotherEquationsFile.txt

License

See LICENSE