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DomenicLaritz
DomenicLaritz17-Peridot
17-Peridot
July 16, 2018
Question

Copy name of model tree element to clipboard

  • July 16, 2018
  • 17 replies
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Hello folks,

 

a colleague asked me if I knew a way to copy the name of a selected model tree element to the clipboard.
Since I could not find an out-of-the-box solution, I developed a small tool for this purpose myself:
"Copy Model Tree Element Name To Clipboard"
Maybe someone else would like to use the tool.

    17 replies

    DomenicLaritz
    DomenicLaritz17-PeridotAuthor
    17-Peridot
    December 7, 2020

    I have released a new version 1.2.0 of the tool.
    With this you can specify an optional second command line parameter /noext after the trail directory.
    This will remove file extensions like ".PRT" or ".ASM".

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      Trebla16-Pearl
      16-Pearl
      December 24, 2020

      Domenic, Thank you very much for your new version.

       

      I tested in creo4, when I pasted the 'part name' the result was: "End of Trail File" not the name...

       

      This program only works in creo7?  Thanks

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      Trebla16-Pearl
      16-Pearl
      December 24, 2020

      Sorry, I checked it again, I had a typo in the OS mapkey.

      It works fine in creo4. Thank you

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      ptc-49880411-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      August 10, 2025

      Hi,
      I'm very interested in your script but I tried it and, with Creo Parametric 5, Paste give extra characters before and after the the name to copy.

      The of the part (the name to COPY) is:
      PROVA01
      The result of the PASTE operationd is:
      %CIPart 'PROVA01' not changes s

      I checked the trail file and this  9 characters before and 15 characters after the part name.

      I also tried checking the source code .au3 , but my code skills are VERY rusty.
      Perhaps the character count to be parsed in the trail.txt file is in one of these files (File.au3; FileConstants.au3) that can't be downloaded? 

      Any suggestions?


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      Trebla16-Pearl
      16-Pearl
      August 11, 2025

      Hi,

       

      I use the tool in Creo8 and it works fine, so if you use Creo5 I think it would work well also.

      I don't understand the meaning of  "not changes s". 

      If your part name is PROVA01, when you paste the name, I don't see the relation with any "s"...

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      ptc-49880411-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      August 11, 2025

      Hi Trebla,
      the text:

      "%CIPart 'PROVA01' not changes s"

      is exactly the sequence of characters that the Paste command returns after launching the script.
      Not only the name I would like, that is, PROVA01, but also all the characters before and after how I wrote them between ""
      So it seems that the .exe script makes a copy of characters higher than that it should copy from the trail.txt file

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      falcaopf6-Contributor
      6-Contributor
      March 16, 2026

      Realy, REALY helpfull! Thanks a lot, it will save me a lot of time.

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        Tone_Vogrin4-Participant
        4-Participant
        August 4, 2026

        Dear,

        I have been using the macro for the past few years in Creo 4 and Creo 8. We recently upgraded to Creo 12 and the thing no longer works.

        Any ideas?

        Dale_Rosema
        Dale_Rosema23-Emerald IV
        23-Emerald IV
        August 4, 2026

        In Creo 11 they changed how mapkeys are read into the system. Look at this post:

         

         

        Especially the last two posts by Martin.

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        Tone_Vogrin4-Participant
        4-Participant
        August 4, 2026

        Since we also changed computers and switched to win 11, I assume the problem is that Creo is not able to refresh the trail file fast enough. So I added a delay function to mapkey so that Creo has time to update the trail file.

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        Tone_Vogrin4-Participant
        4-Participant
        August 5, 2026

        This is my mapkey,

        !mapkeyu "ki" Dodana funkcija timeout (0.5 sek), da pusti cas Creo-tu, da dokonca zapis trail datoteke
        mapkey ki @MAPKEY_NAMEKopira v odlozisce;@MAPKEY_LABELKopira ime oznacenega elementa iz model Tree v odlozisce;\
        mapkey(continued) @SYSTEM"cmd /c timeout /t 0.5";\
        mapkey(continued) @SYSTEM"N:\\Ptc\\AUDAX_CREO12\\Aplikacije-INO\\Copy-Model-Tree-Element\\CopyModelTreeElem\\
        mapkey(continued) entNameToClipboard.exe" "%TEMP%";

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