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Hi,The Hotspots under Isodraw are delimited with green fine line.But when I look them under Isoview. the lines are red and very thick And I don't see the hotspot's names.Have you got a solution to set the hotspots ?Best regards

Hi,I need to put custom change marks in the page margin besidechanged content.I use a UFE with side-by-side alignment with a negative offset.This works for marks beside regular text, such as paragraphsand titles.But there are two problematic cases:1. Next to a list item the side-by-side layout interferes withthe proper indent of the list number and the following text.2. When the change mark is on a table row, the side-by-side doesnot seem to work (not too surprising).So, is there another way to put text in the margin that mightwork better?Environment: Styler 6.0 M040 (APP Engine)Thanks,Richard

Hi,I am updating a checkbox in a XUI document in Editor 6.0 m010: dlgitem_set($win, 'mycheckbox', 'VALUE', 1)The dialog visually updates as expected 100% of the time.Subsequent tests of that checkbox's state SOMEtimes report that it isunchecked.Has anyone seen behavior like this?-- Paul Nagai

Have numerous callouts that have the part name and the "long version" of the part number, i.e.WASHER(01-030, 79-21-11)would like to have a way to click on the callout, hit a macro or hit a button that quickly changes to the "short version" of the part numberWASHER(01-030)It will always be the same pattern. Find the comma, delete it and everthing after it until the paren.have been playing with:selecting the layer with callouts on itmaking it the only visible layerselecting only text that contains "("exporting selection as text filegoing to an outside text editor to do find&replaceimporting them back into IsoDrawGot to be a less klunky way to something so simple?

I am doing a macro to fine tune scaling of elements.We often bring parts of several drawings together and they are usually at different scales. The scale function is fine for the getting it nearly right, then we have to fine tune it. We tend to start with 99%, then 99.9% then 99.99% (or 101% etc if going the other way) to get it as near exact as required. Trouble is that each time the scale is changed, the scaling point has to be set again - and if you are zoomed into one of the edges of the scaled item, you have to zoom back to where you can set the scale point again (and enter the percentage) - then back again to the edge so you can see more clearly as it scales.The macros are just meant to make it a bit quicker to fine tune scaling and my toolbar has icons for the following:99.99% 99.9% 99% SET 101% 101.1% 101.01%The SET macro just prompts the user to pick a point on the drawing, and makes global x and y variables for the other macros to use as the scaling point.It works fine, but o

Hello,We recently upgraded to PE 5.4 M100 from 5.3 M040. I have a custom ACL function that have running on the PE server, that is kicked off by an HTTP request from a servlet.Anyway, this function ran just fine on the 5.3 PE server. Since upgrading to 5.4, I cannot get the function to run.It returns the following error to the diagnostic window:22:33:56 [http-8080-1] INFO e3.XHtmlErrorPage - (pid=7272) Error 0x80042201 source='Epic.Acl.1' desc='Error parsing command string:e3cessna::cleanup( "book","testpub", 'D:\Tomcat 6.0\temp\activ...[A11345] Undefined package name: e3cessna::cleanup(' msg='IDispatch error #8193'.Anyway, I have the app set up in the e3config.xml as follows:<allowedfunctions> <clientfunction pattern="e3apptest::testapp" type="acl"/> <clientfunction pattern="e3appsave::appsave" type="acl"/> <clientfunction pattern="e3cessna::*" type="acl"/> <clientfunction pattern="com.arbortext.*" type="java"/> <clientfunction pattern="E3AppTest" type=

As most of you know, some of the work I've been doing the past few years has been in support of the ASRL for the U.S. Army. This site allowed the downloading of various Army SGML/XML information (DTDs, schema, and style sheets). I was just told that until further notice, the ASRL (which has been operated by CSC) is to be turned off and no responses to queries will be handled. So if any of you folks are working with 40051 and need anything from the ASRL, GET IT NOW. As things change, I'll pass the word.Lynn

Hi all,Wanted to let you know that we've released Arbortext 6.0 M050 and it's now available for download from www.ptc.com/support.This version primarilywas for SPR fixes and minor enhancements.You can take a look at the release notes athttp://www.ptc.com/view?im_dbkey=141362Thanks,Pushpinder Toor

WITHOUT annoying your users too much. Supports collecting the informationand generating the license ahead of any Arbortext Administrator conductedinstall so you're not waiting around the user's cubicle while the PTClicensing application is chugging away on preparing your license file.FYI: I modified the file contents here in my e-mail to obscure informationpotentially considered proprietary. I may have introduced typos or errorsof logic. Read carefully and test well in a non-production environment blahblah blah=======@echo offrem Make a directory on the user's hard drive to store cpu_id.exe whichwill not run from a UNC.mkdir "c:\Arbortext\cpuid"rem Copy the contents of a server directory which contains cpu_id.exe tothe directory you just created.xcopy \\servername\sharename\cpuid "c:\Arbortext\cpuid" /s /y /irem Grab the MAC address reported by cpu_id.exe and start an Outlook e-mailrequest with that informationrem in the subject line to two Arbortext admins at yourcompany.rem Outlook p

Hello!I am a developer, I use Java for writing my plugin. I know that Arbortext Editor 5.1 goes with Java 1.4 and Arbortext Editor 5.2 goes with Java 1.5.The developer guide tells the developers about debugging with a javadebugport.But what about profiling? How acl file should be modified for at least Arbortext Editor 5.2?I can't add profiling agent. If my post looks strange then where it the forum for the Arbortext Editor extension developers? Here is acl in init folder:set javadebugport=3500;set javavmargs = -javaagent:agent.jar MainPluginClassjava_console();

Hi All,Two Qs:1) Is there a place/functionality within these forums to provide 'pinned' or FAQ items that get repeatedly searched for? Like searching the software changes by build, with a list showing the areas affected with the new build? Or even a little topic organization?2) In Arbortext Editor 6.0 Build 040, we've got some peculiarities with our Print Composer PDF Table of Contents and Alpha Index Outputs that we do not have in Build 010. I know there are stylesheets involved, but the DoD provided DTD and stylesheet files we are using have not changed. Specifically, - a. The autogenerated Table of Contents have a couple of places where they run off the page bottom, overwriting the page number, and not displaying the rest of the TOC entries for that section (called a 'Work Package' in military tech manual parlance.) Not all TOC sections are affected, but it's a very obvious and noticeable problem to anyone doing DoD MIL-STD 40051-2 military tech manuals with standalone Arbortext Edi

Our editors are copying from Word and pasting into AE regularly. The Word documents they are working with are produced by a variety of external sources anduse the full spectrum of quotes. Does anyone have a snippet of ACL that can be run on save (XML)to convert all quotes to simple straight quotes?Thanks for your help all!Ashley

Hello,the remove_file function does not work anymore in my APE server. I've acl functions which clean files and they fail to remove files.It was working on another environment. But since I reinstalled APE on a new server, it fails.I checked access rights in DCOM and for the Tomcat service : the local system user has got full access to files.I also make a test by setting a very short time to live to Epic threads in order to force them to restart often and so to release their resources.Nothing work. Have you got an idea ?

Hi Gang,I am new to IsoDraw, my background has been in Autodesk products and Pro/E up to this point. So I am trying to master IsoDraw and have been asked to create a couple of macros to help expedite our process. The task I am trying to accomplish is taking many graphics we have created and scale them down to fit in a specific size and then export out to a CGM file. Where I am having some trouble is getting the size of the group of elements width X height. I want to take this data and determine the orientation of the group of elements portrait vs. landscape. Then I will scale the group using a specific size for either portrait or landscape. So if someone knows of a reference book for IsoDraw and macros within IsoDraw that would be incredibly helpful. I have the Macro language reference guide but I think I need a bit more help and information.Thanks for any and all help.Keith Howard

Hi,I am giving <_newline> element to break the line in <p>,<title> element. But it's not working in the PDF output. Could you please help me how can I get this.Anything to be done in the styler stylesheets. Kindly advice.thanks,Bala, AJ

I'm looking to get event notifications when a double-click is performed on a row in a tablecontrol. I've tried several ways and get no errors or exceptions (I'm creating and manipulating the xui in java), but I haven't been able to find any that work. Anyone done something like this before?Thanks,-- Brian Jensenbjensen@bluelid.com

Can Arbortext 5.4 and Arbortext 6.0 be installed and run on the same PC without technical or performance issues?

I'm working on a large scale project trying to repair and use our entire PTC project. I'm working on learning and maintaining aspects as far up as Windchill System Administration to as far down as stylesheet control. My company is using information from our mother plant in Japan, who sent us a version of their custom folder since ours wasn't tailored to their products. However, their acl files didn't translate over properly, so their comment lines are in gibberish and sometimes their command lines are off, too. I've put in support to PTC, requested translated files from Japan, contacted my own IT and scoured the internet for a way to correct this translation issue. This is critical for us, since many aspects of our project our stuck until we can understand what they did and how they did it. I think that this is something programmers run into often, and would know how to fix, but that's a guess and I don't know any programmers. Any help would be much appreciated. ThanksI attached an exa

When producing a PDF from EPIC 5.2 the PDF shows lines around the graphics. Sometimes a full box sometimes just one or two sides. When the PDF is printed the lines do not show (which is good) but these PDFs are also used on the web (which is bad). I cannot recreate this same scenario when inserting the same graphic in Word, or FrameMaker, or when using XSL stylesheets and Antenna House to produce the PDF. Which narrows the issue to EPIC. Any Ideas to help would be very much appreciated. Windows 7Version 5.2 (February 6, 2006 (MPL-2037)Graphics are uncompressed TIFF imagesStylesheets: .fos filesAcrobat 9.0 PDF (have experimented with multiple job options - no difference inoutput.

Has anyone come across parser problems when it comes to Arbortext singleton tags not being properly closed?All of our singleton tags such as <tableref> are closed only by a > sign, instead of using />. The parsers we use are constantly complaining about this.Is this Arbortext XML Editor specific? Can it be changed?Ashley

Has anyone noticed differences in how text wraps to the next line in version 6 versus older versions? I'm seeing many differences between outputs from 5.3 and 6.0. I can't account for anything in the markup causing the difference. Has anyone else noticed this?

When viewing CGMs in IsoView, at the default size, which sizes the graphic to the viewport, the raster portions of the image is all shuffled. Horizontal portions of the image is "shuffled". If you zoom out to about 50% of the viewport size the graphic looks correct, but none of the text is legible because the graphic is zoomed out too far.   here is how the image is displayed:       Here is a similar portion of the image, how it is supposed to look: (the drawing of the plane is a raster image imported into the CGM, while the black arrows are vector elements in the CGM.)   All the vector elements are positioned correctly, but the raster portions get shuffled depending on the zoom level. This is using the 7.2 evaluation copy of IsoView and being used in IE7. The problem also occurs in IE8.   This problem only to select computers, but all running the same OS (Windows XP). The graphic will look correct on some computers, whereas on others it will be incorrec

hi, I use arbortext editor 5.4, there is a "rotate" attribute for table cells. Does this work? What must I put in there so that the cell contents actually rotates? (-90, yes, 1 ?) for example, the whole word must be rotated 90 degrees back, but not like this...elpmaxemany thanks,edward

Hi all,Having just updated one of our standalone workstations to Arbortext Editor 6.0 Build 040, we've noticed that the Completeness Checker now gives us errors for empty tags - which is a problem. (We've still got other stations running 6.0 Build r60m010 without this problem).Background - We're a small shop doing DoD Military XML Tech Manuals using US Army LOGSA DTDs and Stylesheet filesets. During tech manual development, many of our tags (particularly parts data) have empty tags (immature parts data during TM development cycle), but the tags themselves (and some attributes) are required by the DTD.We try to have everyone here diligently use the completeness checker, to ensure that our content is tagged as error free as possible. This is particularly helpful with newer, inexperienced TM developers. Everything runs cleaner that way, from our end and gov't receipt - almost singing Kum-bah-ya.Problem: With Arbortext Editor 6.0 Build 040, the Completeness checker is now flagging hundreds

Hello,I need to upgrade my 5.1 editor with the 5.2 version, but it seems no more avalaible on PTC download product session.Do you know how can I get it?PS I don't want to install greater version cause they use local language installation and I need the English version