AFX Automatic Drawing issues

[avillena]

Hello,

I'm having some troubles with AFX automatic drawings. There are several things:

1) Can I use drawing formats stored in Windchill??

I have configured the name of the format used in "drawing_setup.txt":

If I save "afx_a3_pieza.frm" in "drawing_formats" folder, it works! If I save "afx_a3_pieza.frm" in any other folder, and I point at it with "pro_format_dir", it works!

But if I store it in Windchill, and I point "pro_format_dir" at the Windchill folder, AFX can't find the format.

2) When I use the "afx_a3_pieza.frm" format stored in AFX "drawing_formats" folder, AFX can find it, but its created in the Workspace as a New Object, althoug the format exists in Windchill:

Can I configure anything so AFX can find the format in Windchill and reuse it? The only way I have found is to previously donwload the format to the Workspace...

3) When I create the drawings, all profiles are Extracted, althoug they shouln't have been modified...

Is it the intended behaviour?

I would like to know if I can solve these issues. If they can't be solved I will have to save the format both in Windchill and in the AFX configuration folders. And I will have to download it to Workspace before creating drawings, so it's not created as new...

Thnak you for your help!

[SamuelBrantner · Accepted solution]

hi @avillena,

in order to make that work you will need to set the following option in configuration/hidden_options.cfg:

DRAWING_FORMAT_PATH <PATH>

Path to drawing formats (e.g. wtpub://Windchill/Libraries/Formats)

This is required, as AFX tries to evaluate the config.pro option pro_format_dir and on the startup the server can not be reached until the user did the login. 

Regards Sam

[avillena]

It's working!! Thank you very much!!