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April 14, 2017
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  • April 14, 2017
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Is there a way to lock down the tables in a format so that users cannot manipulate what is inside of them but still have parameters inside the table update?

    Best answer by BenLoosli

    OK, I understand and presumed BOM, since that is the one most likely to be manipulated by the users.

    My answer is still Not to my knowledge. Change the wording in my first response from BOM table to table.

    We have some things in the titleblock as symbols driven from the model/assembly file. The tolerance block is a formatted and generated from text in the std_tol model note. They can go back in the model/assembly and edit the note and it will change on the drawing. For the most part they leave that alone, but that may be due to training and being told "You don't need to change that." However, we updated our standards and they do need to change the std_tol note these days since we went from referencing AME Y14.5M-1994 to ASME Y14.5-2009 as the standard for tolerancing.

    Can you provide some explanation of what exactly you are trying to prevent your users from changing?

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    BenLoosli23-Emerald III
    23-Emerald III
    April 14, 2017

    What are you trying to prevent?

    The users need to be able to change the column widths, usually, to get the descriptions to fit within the cells.

    In some cases, my users have had to build custom relations when they use a normal part for pcitoral purposes but want it in the BOM as a bulkitem (qty = A/R).

    From my experience with WF/Creo, you cannot prevent the users from changing a BOM table. That comes down to training and management enforcement of rules. best practices/standards.

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    Anonymous
    April 14, 2017

    Ben,

          It is not a BOM table I am trying to prevent them from modifying. They are the tables that are used for Title Blocks and other tables we want to be taken from the drawing format as a standard.

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    BenLoosli23-Emerald IIIAnswer
    23-Emerald III
    April 14, 2017

    OK, I understand and presumed BOM, since that is the one most likely to be manipulated by the users.

    My answer is still Not to my knowledge. Change the wording in my first response from BOM table to table.

    We have some things in the titleblock as symbols driven from the model/assembly file. The tolerance block is a formatted and generated from text in the std_tol model note. They can go back in the model/assembly and edit the note and it will change on the drawing. For the most part they leave that alone, but that may be due to training and being told "You don't need to change that." However, we updated our standards and they do need to change the std_tol note these days since we went from referencing AME Y14.5M-1994 to ASME Y14.5-2009 as the standard for tolerancing.

    Can you provide some explanation of what exactly you are trying to prevent your users from changing?

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