How to pass over the 80 Character Barrier for String Parameters

[ChantalGagne]

HI everyone,

It is possible to pass over the 80 Character Barrier for String Parameters? I'm trying to write in a custom parameter more than 80 character, I'm not able because the field does not accept more than 80 characters.

I'm using Creo/Pro 5.0 M220.

Thanks for your help!

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[Mahesh_Sharma]

Hi Chantal,

The maximum length of a string parameter is 80. No setting or configuration option is currently available to change this behavior.

I hope this will answer your query.

Regards,

Mahesh

[ChantalGagne]

Thank you Mahesh for the information. But this did'nt resolve my problem.

Maybe I can suggest to vote for this Idea

Remove the 80 Character Barrier for String Parameters

Maybe in the new Release of CREO it could be fixe.

Thank you.

[Dale_Rosema]

A possible work around would be to use two parameters and put most of your text in one and the remaining in the next. Not pretty, but since there is a limit, I don't see another work around.

At least you got a definite "No" for the current answer and you're not left wondering.

[dschenken]

It's good to see that FORTRAN/Hollerith punch card conventions are alive and well.

It's probably baked into Windchill as well to only accept 80 character parameter strings.

[pburtsev]

Hello Chantal Gagne here is another way (sorry for my english)

1. Create Note_1

2. Type text to the new note like this

3. Create PARAMETER_1 and choose type "note" and value "note_1 id" (see in the picture above in the right top corner)

4. In the drawing you can report your PARAMETER_1 value

[cmilligan]

I have the same issue where I can set the attribute size to be anything in PDMLink, but am crippled by CREO to 80 characters. I contacted PTC TS a couple weeks back and they were unable to provide a solution or work around.

I am wondering if Pavel Burtsev's idea could be used somehow though. If the attribute was not mapped to PDMLink it seems like it would work, but could you get a larger (than 80chr) PDMLink attribute to pass down to the note? It seems like PDMLink will just overwrite what ever is already there truncated to 80 characters.

[ChantalGagne]

I tested the solution proposed by Pavel Burtsev actually works well. But my parameter is mapped into Windchill and nothing appears in Windchill. I even changed the configurations of Windchill to accept 100 characters from this parameter and it still does not work.