We have an automatic publishing to dxf for all drawings when being checked in. For assemblies this results in huge dxf files being stored in the database. That is why we only like to publish a dxf file when an assembly does only contain 2D views as this only makes sence to measure on using an 3th party program. Is there a way to set a parameter in Creo when a drawing does only contain 2D views (non 3D views) ?
Regards,
Bernard
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Couple things. First, it is entirely possible to control publishing based on parameter values in the model and/or drawing. (See publish rules and publish helper.) Second, for this to work like you envision you would need a way to have this parameter set prior to check-in. I'm wondering if Model Check might be able to do this. Maybe those who know and use Model Check can chime in on whether or not it's capable of checking for views based on name or orientation.
All views are 3D views. The only thing you might look for is view names, but that's pretty tedious. If one had the tools one could look to see the transformation matrix to see whether the rotations in it matched orthographic views or not.
