Material parameter in the drawing format

[TomášHlavinka]

Hello,

just need your advice how to create a link between a drawing format (.frm) and a material (.mtl) file to get the material type on the drawing automatically.

Thnx in advance

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[AndyHermanson]

If you have materials assigned to the part, you should be able to pull in the material parameter from the part.

Part

Drawing

Or call out a custom parameter that is maybe more descriptive.

[DHLewis · Accepted solution]

Hello Tomas,

As you have probably found out, PTC_MATERIAL_NAME is more of a File name format, not allowing spaces. What you probably want to show in the format is to use the PTC_MATERIAL_DESCRIPTION. This is the Description that is defined in the mtl file. In order to to that, you need to create a Parameter in the model (Let's say MATERIAL) Then in order to grab the Description for the currently active material, you need to define a relation.

The relation should be:

MATERIAL=material_param("PTC_MATERIAL_DESCRIPTION")

This will set your Parameter &MATERIAL that you can use in your format, to be equal to the current Material Description.

Hope that helps.