Materials in WF3

[cpodom]

Does anyone have experience with the new material interface in WF3? It appears to be much improved with an area for the material description. The problem is I cannot get that description to read into a parametric note. <?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />

Does anyone have any solutions?

Curtis

 

[design-engine]

they finally improved it. parametric note hu? humm.

 

[Walt Weiss]

Hi Curtis,


In WF2 it was asm.mbr.material


In WF3 I'm told it is asm.mbr.ptc_material


Good Luck.

 

[cpodom]

The usual note

 

[cpodom]

WF3 Material Notes:<?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />

Well I have solved most of this problem. The new material interface has an info box that will give you a list of parameters that live in the .mat file; with those parameter names you can write the relations to read into a note.

Even though PTC has given us a description box that looks like it will hold a paragraph (quite useful and needed for a proper material callout) it will only hold a limited number of characters and will not word wrap even though you typed it in that way.

At the very least the new

 

[jeellis]

The new material files create a number of "material_param" values that can be used. The "ptc_material_description" is the material file's description field. If that field of the material file is populated with text then you can report that description.


To report a model's material description on a drawing create the model parameter "MATERIAL". In the model's relations create the following material=material_param("ptc_material_description"). In the desired drawing table cell add the value &material to report the models' material description in the table cell.