common name

[design-engine]

when a user creates a new part one is prompted for the part name. Under that is the common name. does anyone use that at their job and what might it be used for? I imagine one can use it somehow to dictate bar stock maybe? comments?

 

[jbuckl]

PLM / enterprise Systems seem to have become a ball of circular references Bart, just the other day I came across a field for description that was 9 numeric characters.(lovely description)
Do a search on this site, and theres some other ppl posting about common name.
Atb
Julian

 

[jason_]

PTC's take:

In Pro/ENGINEER, "Common Name" field simply creates a new parameter called "PTC_COMMON_NAME". The use of this parameter comes in Data Management.

"Common Name" is a user friendly name for a Pro/ENGINEER object. In data management systems, where an object must be unique in its domain, same file name cannot be given to multiple objects. Instead of "bolt.prt", the part is generally given a unique identifier (e.g., "112334334.prt"). This is where "Common Name" comes in. When the user creates a new object, a unique file name ("112334334") is entered, either by the user or assigned by Windchill. The user can then enter a more descriptive "Common Name" (e.g. "1/4-20 hex bolt"). When the new object is checked into Windchill, "Common Name" maps automatically to the CAD Document Name (which is the user friendly identifier for a CAD Document, and is not subject to uniqueness rules).

It also allows you to enter whatever you want and ignoresrestrictions on naming files. So in the case of vendor part that hasspecial characters like slashes, decimals or spaces you can put the actual number used by the vendor in the common name area instead of hyphens and underscores. Then this common name can be used in parts lists and BOM repeat regions. It's just basically a system created string parameter.
Edited by: jason_

 

[rohitms]

gud one jason