Issue with exporting clean DXF from drawing template and mapkey

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August 8, 2024
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I am on Creo parametric 7.0.10

Here is my problem. I am trying to export a clean DXF from a curve inside a part. I need the dxf to have no notes and be at scale 1 for cnc machining. I need to do this for many parts so wanted to automate it or speed it up somehow.

To speed up the process of exporting, I created a drawing template with the view "Front" set to scale 1. I then created a mapkey to open the part as a drawing with the template, then save as dxf.

My issue is that doing it this way creates a note for the scale of the view "Scale 1.000".

I would like to not have this note. I tried removing the set scale of the view in the template and use mapkey to set the drawing scale before exporting, but I was not able to get mapkey to modify the drawing scale.

I also was not able to find an option to not have the note show up in the template view.

If there is a better way to export DXF files from part files I am also open to changing my method.

Best answer by Chris3

Someone else will probably have a better solution to this. This is not a workflow that we go though. That being said, you can have a mapkey that deletes the scale note. Because it is a template the note ID will always be the same. So you can have the mapkey call the find too and search for that note id and then once it is found and selected you can just delete it.

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21-Topaz I

Someone else will probably have a better solution to this. This is not a workflow that we go though. That being said, you can have a mapkey that deletes the scale note. Because it is a template the note ID will always be the same. So you can have the mapkey call the find too and search for that note id and then once it is found and selected you can just delete it.