Common name

[bmozley]

Creo Community,



While creating a new part, below the "name" box is "common name". What
is common name

and how is it used?



Brad

Creo 2.0 M010








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[ptc-810450]

Common Name is used primarily in Windchill (where it is called "name"
confusingly). It allows you to use punctuation, spaces, capitalisation
etc to give the part/asm/drawing a more descriptive title. You can access
it in drawing title blocks (or any other notes) using &PTC_COMMON_NAME:D
(this will display the common name of the drawing, drop the 😄 to display
the common name of the active part.

cheers
--
Mark von Huben
Cochlear Ltd

[MikeLockwood]

See either of these doc’s.
It’s horrible that this confusing situation still exists.

[KevinAlexander]

Useful only with Windchill really

The basic idea is name=number in Windchill and common name=name in Windchill