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pb_max10-Marble
10-Marble
December 13, 2024
Question

Family Tables parameter names in a Drawing Table and Objects disappearing

  • December 13, 2024
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Hello, 

 

We are on Creo 9.0.3.0.

 

I can make a 2D Family Table no problem, but then I am stuck with the names of the parameter that include the underscore since a lot of names are muli-word, and cannot be named with any spaces.  I had THOUGHT that's what the Description field would be for...so you can just show that as the name instead of the actual name, BUT I cannot figure out how to use the Descriptions AT ALL.  fam.inst.param.description doesn't work, and I also cannot figure out how to even reference the description in Relations if that route is necessary to fix this.

 

Next, I have Objects (They are Word docs) that disappear after saving, leaving, and reopening the drawing.  They are in the tree, and selectable, and even editable, but are not visible on the drawing or after exporting to PDF.  I was having similar issue for Images and ended up being a setting in config.sys.  Is there a similar one for Objects?

 

Thanks

 

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
December 16, 2024

Hi,

maybe different technique will solve your problem.

https://support.ptc.com/cs/cs_27/howto/dwt_no2d/dwt_no2d.htm

 

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pb_max10-MarbleAuthor
10-Marble
December 16, 2024

Hello, I appreciate your input, but I need the code for the Descriptions.  I am not interested in a work-around...work-arounds are what Micro$oft uses for answers.  PTC, being far superior, needs to provide the ACTUAL solution here.  My actual table might have 270 parameters instead of 5.  Descriptions is there, in the same table as all the other data points...it has to have a code to access it.

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
December 18, 2024
@pb_max wrote:

Hello, I appreciate your input, but I need the code for the Descriptions.  I am not interested in a work-around...work-arounds are what Micro$oft uses for answers.  PTC, being far superior, needs to provide the ACTUAL solution here.  My actual table might have 270 parameters instead of 5.  Descriptions is there, in the same table as all the other data points...it has to have a code to access it.

Hi,

the following text is just an additional comment.

When writing the first answer, I wasn't paying attention and didn't notice that you wanted to display the contents of the cells from the Description column in the Parameters dialog in the table. If you want to know more information about the usage of these descriptions, you have to contact PTC Support. Personally, I think that descriptions cannot be called up outside of the Parameters dialog.

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23-Emerald III
BenLoosli23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
December 16, 2024

It looks like those are column header cells and could be named with the Description name and not worry about a custom parameter name.

Those descriptions are not in fam.inst.parameter.description, 

 

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pb_max10-MarbleAuthor
10-Marble
December 16, 2024

Hello, I appreciate your input, but I need the code for the Descriptions. I am not interested in a work-around...work-arounds are what Micro$oft uses for answers. PTC, being far superior, needs to provide the ACTUAL solution here. My actual table might have 270 parameters instead of 5. Descriptions is there, in the same table as all the other data points...it has to have a code to access it.

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23-Emerald III
BenLoosli23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
December 16, 2024

Can you zip a sample file and upload it?

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