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BenLoosli23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
April 25, 2017
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Reference Balloon changed text

  • April 25, 2017
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We have been using Reference Balloons on detail views for years and they have been appearing with the letters REF under the balloon, which is what we want.

Today, one of the engineers went to add a reference balloon and instead of REF, he got "Default". I created some new parts, a drawing and a detail view, added a reference balloon and got the "default", also.

If I add Reeference_bom_ballon_text to my drawing options and set the value to REF, a new reference balloon comes in like it did before.

What is strange is that we have not updated our Creo2 install in about 6 months, so why is the software suddenly giving us things we don't expect.

Creo2 m220

Windchill10.0 m040

Best answer by StephenW

How about the your BOM table file? It can be saved with a non-default reference balloon note.

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StephenW23-Emerald III
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April 25, 2017

Could it be a template change or a drawing setup file change? Config.pro option pointing to the wrong drawing setup or template folder?

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BenLoosli23-Emerald IIIAuthor
23-Emerald III
April 25, 2017

The only thing that has changed is new drawing templates, but they were started with a rename from the old formats.

If we define Refernce_bom_balloon_text in the current drawing, reference balloons come in right.

In the smp_ref_bln.symbol, it is referencing ref_bln_txt under the circle.

It is acting like ref_bln_txt has lost its internal definition of 'REF'.

These could be the first new drawings with the new formats since we implemented them in January, but we have replaced the old formats with new ONES plenty of times. I am sure I loaded the standard *.dtl files we use into the new formats.

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StephenW23-Emerald IIIAnswer
23-Emerald III
April 25, 2017

How about the your BOM table file? It can be saved with a non-default reference balloon note.

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