mapkey won't run on other parts
- December 22, 2016
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I am trying to create a mapkey to update an annotation feature/note in our part and assembly files.
Currently, we have ASME Y14M-1994 called out as the standard to interpret drawings to, we need to update this to ASME Y14-2009.
Perfect candidate for a mapkey that can be run when any file is updated that has the 1994 date in it.
However, I can create the mapkey, save it. and when I run it on a different file, I get a popup Error window: Cannot perform this action in current context.
The steps I am doing are:
Open Model tree filters and enable Annotations
Expand Annotations and select properties on our default Tolerance_Std_note
Arrow down to the line after ASME Y14M-1994, back arrow to get to the '4', then delete the M-1994 and add the -2009
Select OK to close the window
Open model tree filters and turn off Annotations.
If I close and erase the file I created the mapkey in and then reopen it, the mapkey will work.
If I open another file, the mapkey fails with the error message above.
I did create a second mapkey in another file and compared them.
After opening the Annotation list, the selection of the tolerance note has a mapkey reference to a node#. The # is different in the 2 files, even though the both should have been created from the same start part. Is this node# session dependent or part dependent? Can it be made universal, so the mapkey will work?
On new parts, we will be modifying the start part templates.
I have added a PDF showing the 2 mapkeys that when run in the original file work fine, but other files.
Message was edited by: Ben Loosli