User Parameters in Formats/Drawings

[IdeaZonePD]

I have created a Format with the borders and title block. I have placed several parameters (system and user-defined) by their code (ie &model_name).


However, when I use the format in a drawing, only the system parameters work correctly. The user defined parameters only show up as the code text (&material). When I add a note in the drawing with the code for the user-defined parameter, the parameter shows up correctly. But not when it is placed in the format.


Does anyone know how to get user-defined parameters to show up when placed in a format first?


Thanks,


Myles

 

[sip]

I sometimes get it to work by adding a space in the callout note, then when it works I take the space out again. It fills in the part id that is missing in the parameter note.


Sip

 

[IdeaZonePD]

Sip, thanks for the tip. I tried that, but it still only shows the user-defined parameters by their callout notes.


Myles

 

[dr_gallup]

Actually, it is more likely that extra spaces are CAUSING the problem rather than being needed. Use the editor function & make sure that each parameter is enclosed in the curly brackets Pro/E uses to parse text strings. If it sees and extra characters it may not parse the parameter correctly.

{0:HEAT TREATMENT}
{1:&heat_treat_spec}

 

[IdeaZonePD]

dr_gallup,


Thanks, I tried the text editor, and there were no additional spaces.


The process for my inputting the callout notes is OK. I know this because the system parameters show up correctly (like model_name, type, total_sheets, etc), but the user-defined parameters (material, client, part description) do not show up except as the string of the callout (&client). Am I entering the parameter incorrectly? Or maybe not saving it? Or is there some setting that only allows system parameters to propogate from a format file to a drawing file?


Myles

 

[Jonathan21409]

When you start your drawings using empty w/ format and select that format it should prompt you at the begining for all the missing parameters that you have tried to call out and ask you if its a string, yes/no, real number etc. What you need to do is just put those all as strings at the start and then you can leave em blank and hit enter through it and then you should be able to click on the spots in the title block and fill them in like that. I have our title block set up this way and it works out pretty well. The other thing you may want to do is add those parameters to your start parts so then you wont have to answer the prompts when you start a new drawing with a new part.


Hope this helps.

 

[rudresh.hm]

try replacing the format with the required model set as active. this may work.

 

[elab.theken]

Are your parameter callouts entries into tables? If they are just text entries on the format, I believe they will not be parametric...at least that was the case in earlier releases.

 

[IdeaZonePD]

No they are not table entries. They are just text entries. Would it work if it were in a table?

 

[dr_gallup]

Parameters have to be in table to work in the format. They will work in notes & symbols after the drawing is created.

Edited by: dr_gallup

 

[IdeaZonePD]

Is that true just for user-defined parameters? Because the system parameter work fine as a note in a format, just not the user-defined ones.


Myles

 

[kdem]

Instead of putting the user defined parametersin the format use them in a drawing template.

 

[jvidal]

Is there any system parameter for the date of creation of the drawing?

I've tried &date and &todays_date and none worked.



Also, the &scale parameter outputs "1". How can I force it to output "1:1" or "2:1" or "1:2"...



I'm using WF5 and WF4!



Thanks in advance!


EDIT:
OK. Regarding the scale issue, I found that changing two options on your DTL file do the trick:

view_scale_denominator 10
view_scale_format ratio_colon

Somehow this seems overcomplicated for such a simple setting...

Edited by: jvidal

 

[Sidplm]

Hi KDEM,


I am able to get the parameters when I have used them in Template which is created with one format.


If I want to change the sheet say from A0 to A4 from page setup, it will only take me to formats avaialble and If I want to select A4 template from A0 template, this is not possible as only formats will be shown and not template in page set up options. Let me know if you have any solution for this.


Thanks,


SM
Edited by: Sidplm