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jlondona10-Marble
10-Marble
March 16, 2023
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Bill of material parameter reporting

  • March 16, 2023
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I am using Creo Parametric Release 3.0 and DatecodeM010

In my model I have two parameters that read : DESCRIPTION_LINE_1 and DESCRIPTION_LINE_2. These two lines show on my drawing title block as two lines of text if the description of the part is too long to fit on a single line.
Is there any way to combine these two parameters so that in my BOM on an assembly drawings both lines of the description appear?

Currently I am only getting the first line of the description based on the report parameter asm.mbr.description_line_1

Best answer by jlondona

Hi Ben,

 

Thanks for the reply. I have been trying to add both lines into one cell and i have only been able to get the single line.

What is the method used to add the second line in the cell?

 

 

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llie17-Peridot
17-Peridot
March 16, 2023

You add them both together like the following:
&asm.mbr.description_line_1&asm.mbr.description_line_2

 

We use something similar in our Description column.

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jlondona10-MarbleAuthor
10-Marble
March 16, 2023

15-Moonstone

Thanks for the quick reply. I tried doing this and it seems I run out of character space.

I get to here: description_line_1&description_ and it wont accept any more characters.

 I have 208 line items in this assembly and it would take forever to have to change the parameters for all of these items.

 

I'm currently running Creo 3.0, could that bee the reason?

 

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23-Emerald III
BenLoosli23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
March 16, 2023

My method just puts 2 lines in the one cell, no concatenation of the 2 description parameters.

We have been doing this since Wildfire 2 days, when I started with PTC products after 20 years on Unigraphics and writing a lot of GRIP code.

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23-Emerald III
StephenW23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
March 16, 2023

We do this in the parts/assemblies with a relation and in our bom table we use &asm.mbr.DESCRIPTION

 

DESCRIPTION = DESCRIPTION1 + " " + DESCRIPTION2 + " " +DESCRIPTION3

 

I suppose you could do that in a repeat region relation if you don't want the relation in the part and refer to it using the &rpt.rel.description 

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23-Emerald III
BenLoosli23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
March 16, 2023

You can also put both lines in the BOM format cell.

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(different formats, but same principle)

We use a slightly smaller font (.140 instead of .156) on D & E formats, but still readable.

 

 

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