Rename a “Reference part” in LogoPress

As a reminder for LogoPress users, the “Reference part” is the part that you are designing the die for. It is what the strip and the tool revolve around, so to speak, and it is the one part file in the strip and tool that does not get a project number. The “Annex part” is the part whose name always ends with “_for_strip”.

The steps to rename a “Reference part” in LogoPress are very similar to those found in the previous post called “Create a new tool from a previously created tool“.

  1. Open the strip assembly
  2. Open the reference part
  3. Rename the reference part to the new name using the SolidWorks “Save As…” command. When you do this, do NOT check the “Save as copy” option. (If, when using this “Save As… ” command, you get a SolidWorks dialog box that pops up with a warning about the “Save As” command and replacing references, click OK. Optionally, if you are a more advanced user and you understand what this dialog box is telling you, you can check the box that says “Don’t ask me again”)
  4. With this newly named (via the Save As command) reference part open, press CTRL+Q to force a rebuild. This will create new body files with new names referencing this new reference part name
  5. Open the annex part that is in the strip assembly and rename it using the SolidWorks “Save As…” command (again, do NOT check the “Save as copy” option) being careful to note that the project name/number should not change
  6. With this newly named annex part open, edit the first feature in the tree , that is the LogoPress “Import” feature and browse to select the newly named reference part name, then check okay to validate
  7. While in either the annex part or the strip assembly, on the LogoPress pull down menu, select “Update the stations of the Annex part used in the strip“
  8. For the sake of housekeeping, I suggest you navigate to the folder containing the old parts that are now unused in this new project and delete these old parts – the old reference part, old annex part and old body files. That’s it, you’re done!
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