Define Selection Filter

Document selection filter could be set to either select or clear selection of the documents matching the conditions defined. All files are always affected by the filtering so that the file is either being selected or its selection is being cleared.

• SELECTED, if. Use this option to make the filter to select document that match with the rules specified.
• CLEARED, if. Use this option to make the filter to clear selection of the documents that match with the rules specified.

Selection filter could be based on several rules. One condition equals a rule associated to a document attribute value, which is being compared to the documents to determine whether to apply the selected action.

Document Attributes

File type	Trigger the filter by the specific type of files using the File type attribute. Please see the following File Types Supported on a Filter table for the file types that the filter could apply to.
Model Property	Use the Model Property as the attribute to make the filter to make the selection according to the Model scope property value.
Drawing Property	Use the Drawing Property as the attribute to make the filter to make the selection according to the Drawing scope property value.
Referenced Model's Property	Use the Referenced Model's Property as the attribute to make the filter to make the selection according to the Property value in the referenced model document. The Properties available with this option are retrieved from the Model scope. This option is available only with the batch operation profiles that supports SOLIDWORKS Drawings.
File name	With the File name attribute the filter compares the file name or a part of it, to the search string provided.
Path	Using the Path attribute you can filter document selections by the path they are located in. The path defined in the condition is compared from the point of view of the workstation which the filter is being used on.
Configuration	Using the Configuration attribute you can filter document selections by rules related to the source documents' configuration name. This helps you especially in case you need to batch process only specific model configurations on a batch operation.

Comparison of the values on selection filter have several options to choose the method from. Please refer to the following Value Comparison Methods table for more detailed information.

Rule Controls

Add rule	Click the Add rule command to add new rule into the current rule group.
New rule group	With the New rule group command, you can add more groups of the selection filter rules. All groups are evaluated by the selected logical operator which could be AND, OR or NONE.
	Each rule have the command after the value box associated to that rule. Click the command to remove the rule from the filter.

Example - Setting Up Filter Conditions

Is	Use the Is method to require a complete match between the rule and, the document that is being compared with that. With the Is method, the condition is true if both values are identical.
Is not	The Is not method is a vice versa to the Is method. With the Is not method, the condition is true if the value compared to the rule, is anything else but the one defined in the filter settings.
Starts with	The Starts with method compares the string provided in the filter settings to the beginning of the value found from the attribute the rule is associated with. This condition is true if the compared attribute value starts with the string specified in the filter regardless of the rest of the target attribute's value.
Ends with	The Ends with method compares the string provided in the filter settings to the end of the value found from the attribute the rule is associated with. This condition is true if the compared attribute value ends with the string specified in the filter regardless of the rest of the target attribute's value.
Contains	With the Contains method the string provided in the filter is being looked for, from anywhere of the compared value. If the string provided is found from the target value, the condition is true regardless of any other part of the value.
Doesn't start with	Use the Doesn't start with method if you know a string the desired attribute value should not start with in order to trigger the selection filter. The condition is true if the target value starts with anything else but the string defined in the selection filter.
Doesn't end with	Use the Doesn't end method if you know a string the desired attribute value should not end with in order to trigger the selection filter. The condition is true if the target value ends with anything else but the string defined in the selection filter.
Doesn't contain	With the Doesn't contain method the string provided in the filter is being looked for, from anywhere of the compared value. If the string provided was not found from the target value, the condition is true regardless of any other part of the value.

NOTE: Value comparisons are always case insensitive.

The following types of file are supported for using the File type attribute to filter the document selections by.

Part	SOLIDWORKS Part (*.sldprt) document.
Sheet metal part	SOLIDWORKS Part (*.sldprt) document with the Sheet Metal features applied.
Assembly	SOLIDWORKS Assembly (*.sldasm) document.
Drawing of a part	SOLIDWORKS Drawing (*.slddrw) document which is created from a SOLIDWORKS Part (*.sldprt) document.
Drawing of a sheet metal part	SOLIDWORKS Drawing (*.slddrw) document which is created from a SOLIDWORKS Part (*.sldprt) document, which has the Sheet Metal features applied.
Drawing of an assembly	SOLIDWORKS Drawing (*.slddrw) document which is created from a SOLIDWORKS Assembly (*.sldasm) document.