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I am using Creo Parametric Release 5.0 and Datecode5.0.1.0
The drawing template I'm creating will not allow me to assign a model Parameter and automatically changes it to a Drawing parameter after entering the model parameter. is there something special I need to do to get this to work correctly for the Drawing template I'm creating?
&PTC_WM_VERSION
&PTC_WMLIFECYCLE_STATE
When I enter these parameters into a table in the Drawing Template it automatically changes it to have ":D" at the end which I do not want. I am trying to set up the drawing template so that for any drawing created you know what version and lifecycle state for both Model and Drawing is for a specific Drawing.
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Use a :MDL after the parameter name to pull it from the 1st model in the drawing.
Use a :MDL after the parameter name to pull it from the 1st model in the drawing.
I've not used drawing templates, but if you're using a format that is used by the template, could you add the desired parameter(s) to the format, then pull that format into the template?
Apologies if this has already been tried...
Formats do not add parameters to the drawing.
But the format contains the ¶meter references, so I wondered if putting those references into the format would prevent the offending ":D" from being added, like all the other referenced parameters in the format like (for me) &DrawnBy, &Description1, and the like.
Does it work that way?
Nope. Drawings (and therefore drawing templates) cannot read parameter values from a format.
@KenFarley wrote:
But the format contains the ¶meter references...
To be more precise...
Templates don't play nice with parameters that exist in both the drawing and the model (like Windchill parameters.) Three options: