PTC_COMMON_NAME in Drawings

[llie]

In our Windchill system we have File Name equal Number, but the Name we want to equal our Creo parameter called Title. Our parts and assemblies have a parameter called Title which drives the accompanied drawing title block. our dilemma is the following:

Drawings cannot contain relations and we would like to set Title = PTC_COMMON_NAME for the drawing so the Title shows contend in Windchill. Currently Title only shows content in Windchill for Parts and Assemblies.

Thank you in advance,

Lance

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[MikeLockwood]

A diagram helps greatly with this, using arrows showing from where filled in by users to where displayed in Windchill / Drawings, etc.

It's simple, but there is massive "churning" from trying to adequately address:

- PTC Common Name

- Name

- Description / DESCRIPTION (yes, these are different)

- Title

Would be great to have a single, comprehensive but simple document on this - questions on it come up like clockwork.

[TomU · Accepted solution]

You can do this with a drawing program, but it has to be manually added to every drawing (or the drawing template).

[mender]

I would highly recommend the 'drawing program in the drawing template' approach here (and in other cases where there is content that you'd like to see in every drawing).