Parameter value having more than 80 characters

Unfortunately the 80 character limitation to the length of a parameter is hard-coded and has been that length for many years. I really don't see PTC willing to change this limitation since it would impact many things in the database and other areas of the system display.

Your best option is to train your users to respect the limitation AND/OR use multiple parameters to get that much information to be displayed. I suppose their could be custom code written to enter a string and either warn the user it went over 80 characters or do an automatic split into multiple parameters.

On another CAD system, it had an easy to use programming language that I had coded for drawing format information. Every string entered was checked for length and did a conversion to all upper case letters. if the length was wrong, the string was truncated and the user received a pop-up telling the parameter was too long.

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@Ketan_Lalcheta wrote:

Hi

 

We can create parameters in Creo Part with string type and lock the same so that users cannot edit it. What can be done to store if value of parameter is more than 80 characters long.

 

Thanks and Regadrs

Ketan

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Hi,

maybe you can create flat screen note and put path to file in it.

I agree that you might want to split the parameter. Above 80 characters you are really getting to the point where you would be thinking about calling in a note from file or an annotation feature in the model.

&note_1 would call in full note if that is it's name just as you do with a parameter.

you could also look at restricted parameter sets to pull in complex combinations of information, I've used this for materials supporting information where it can pull in colour vendor and other user defined information in a set of parameters easily selected from a list or sub lists.

If you were to show an example of these long string parameters you might get more from the community.