topic Re: Need a help during creating a Mapkey of creating a Customized Drawing Name in Customization

Need a help during creating a Mapkey of creating a Customized Drawing Name

PA_11027627 — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:39:37 GMT

I need to create a mapkey to create the name of 2D drawing based on the 3D part but adding some extra strings on it for example,

If the 3D part name is V132000430010, then when I call the mapkey it will create a 2D drawing named DV1320004300100-000

that means I need to add D< Genereted name >0-000.

CREO Version: 8.0.8.0

Re: Need a help during creating a Mapkey of creating a Customized Drawing Name

tbraxton — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 00:11:49 GMT

If you are looking to do this with a mapkey then you will need to use an external script to manipulate the string(s). Mapkeys can only record UI actions in a Creo session. Text editing in this context you are working on is done via pausing for user input to enter text. You can call an external script with a mapkey. You can nest this external script call in other mapkeys.

The syntax to call an external executable is:

@SYSTEM start "path_to_your_script"

Re: Need a help during creating a Mapkey of creating a Customized Drawing Name

RPN — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 21:25:46 GMT

It is always the same

The mapkey execute something what you can parse
Now execute your external program to parse this data
This will prepare a config with a mapkey, which does what you want
load this config file
execute this mapkey

Spend some hours, and Voilà it works😉

Re: Need a help during creating a Mapkey of creating a Customized Drawing Name

PA_11027627 — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:16:03 GMT

Hello @tbraxton,

I'm new to this stuff, so I don't know how to write an external script to manipulate the strings and which Programming language to do so with.

Re: Need a help during creating a Mapkey of creating a Customized Drawing Name

PA_11027627 — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:18:07 GMT

Hello @RPN,

I want to know more about the external program to parse this data, so what language will be done with?

Re: Need a help during creating a Mapkey of creating a Customized Drawing Name

RPN — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:02:38 GMT

This is tuff to answer without getting some members angry 😀

I give you 3 out of hundreds ...

Powershell - you don't need to install, and you can probably run immediately on your machine
Python - This is the one beloved at this time (Interface builder is done with Tk, integration so ugly in my point of view)
Tcl/Tk - 10 rules, easy string handling and simple, but powerful GUI Builder, download and start the widget demo, use 'see code' here!

Now be prepared to get more recommendations 🙂

BTW the

Tcl Lib's are in "Common Files\apps\prodview\system\tcl8.6" and tk8.6

is part of the Creo Installation, but the executables "Wish" and "TclSh" are missing.

rcpedit.exe is a Tcl Program, some code is hidden, but this is written TclTk see rcpnew.tcl

some code to view is here

Common Files\apps\prodview\system\rcptools

If you copy/backup the code you can replace the PTC code, and replace the script by your own code 🙂

I use by myself only Tcl/Tk as a script language, because it is damm flexible if you follow the 10 rules..

Re: Need a help during creating a Mapkey of creating a Customized Drawing Name

Van_AG — Fri, 24 May 2024 09:47:07 GMT

1.
Create a new mapkey in your config.pro,

For example:

mapkey cdn @MAPKEY_LABELCustomized Drawing Name;\ mapkey(continued) @SYSTEMstart WScript.exe \ mapkey(continued) \\creostart\\vbs\\newdrw.vbs;

2.
Create an empty file “newdrw.vbs” in the “c:\creostart\vbs” folder.

3.
Paste in the vbs-file

'/Customized Drawing Name Dim WshShell set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.SendKeys "%ffr" WScript.Sleep 100 WshShell.SendKeys "^c" WScript.Sleep 100 WshShell.SendKeys "{ESC}" WScript.Sleep 100 WshShell.SendKeys "%fn" WScript.Sleep 100 WshShell.SendKeys "{TAB 2}" WScript.Sleep 100 WshShell.SendKeys "{DOWN}" WScript.Sleep 100 WshShell.SendKeys "{TAB 2}" WScript.Sleep 100 WshShell.SendKeys "{DOWN}" WScript.Sleep 100 WshShell.SendKeys "{TAB 2}" WScript.Sleep 100 WshShell.SendKeys "{DOWN}" WScript.Sleep 100 WshShell.SendKeys "d^v0-000" WScript.Sleep 100 WshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}" WScript.Quit()

You can reduce timeouts in the vb-script ("WScript.Sleep 100" means 100ms timeout).

Also you can call other predefined mapkeys from a vb-script.
It would be something like this: WshShell.SendKeys "mtlset"
where "mtlset" is the name of the mapkey.

Open a model in Creo.

Enter cdn to run the mapkey.