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AlejandroSamped10-Marble
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December 18, 2012
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Multi-Language drawings in Productview - How to?

  • December 18, 2012
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Hello,

I would need advice regarding a requirement that I have for CAD drawings using Pro/E WF4 and Productview 9.1.

It is regarding what we call "Multi-Language drawings". For our manufacturing plants, we need to create manufacturing drawings on which we can switch between different languages for the annotations within these drawings themselves (in ONE drw only); and most importantly, that we can switch between the different languages in ProductView to get the drawing as needed for anyone out on the floor.

On the Pro/E environment, we have been doing this using different "layers" which contain the different languages. However, this doesn't work in ProductView 9.1, which doesn't support the switching between layers that have been created in Pro/E. Also, if we used sheets with the same file name, that could create problems when updating one of the sheets, so that one sheet is updated, but the other which is written in the other language is not updated.

On another note and less importantly, do you know if Creo View provides this functionality?

I would really appreciate your comments,

Thanks, Best Regards,

Alex Sampedro.

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AlejandroSamped10-MarbleAuthor
10-Marble
March 14, 2014

Hello,

We are still facing this challenge, and I notice that many colleagues are entering this topic, it has many views. Would it be possible to have a reply? From PTC maybe?

Thank you very much,

Alex Sampedro.

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ChrisPLM12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
April 9, 2014

Hello

have you tried to use layers ?

You could have a layer per language. ProductView recognizes layers and you can turn them on and off.

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AlejandroSamped10-MarbleAuthor
10-Marble
April 10, 2014

Hello,

Yes, I have tried layers and no, it is not a satisfactory solution. First of all, not all viewable formats recognise the Pro/E layers. For example, HPGL. Secondly, for the viewable formats that can "read" the layers which are present in a Pro/E drawing, the information contained in those layers is wrong. Meaning that language layers in the Pro/E drawing work well (the notes are corresponding correctly to the layers, you can hide/unhide), but when you activate/deactivate those layers in ProductView, the notes are not associated in exactly the same way. For example, there are notes that will not disappear from the viewable and will overlap each other.

I have tried different configurations of the "Worker" too, it does not work, the content of the Pro/E layers will not propagate correctly into the ProductView layers. The layers are there, the name is the same, but its content is wrong.

Therefore my conclussion was that we cannot use layers to achieve the goal of Multilanguage.

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