Always enable ability to 'Add View Label' in a drawing.

[ML_5041200]

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders.
I am a global product design leader within Cummins, Inc.  Part of my role is to maximize efficiency and effectiveness of CAD users.

2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running?
7.0.9.0

3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video.
In a drawing, the RMB>'Add View Label' command is only available if the 'make_aux_view_notes' and 'make_proj_view_notes' config options are set to "yes".  These config settings create view notes/labels for every auxiliary/projection view that is created.  The RMB>'Add View Label' functionality really only provides value to reinstate a view note/label that was initially created and has since been deleted (or up-fitting existing drawings that were created with the "no" config values).  Significant value would be provided if view labels were not generated for all projection/auxiliary views created (i.e.- config options at "no"), with the user having the ability to easily add a view label only the the views they needed.

4. What is the use case for your organization?
View labels (along with corresponding projection arrows) are most valuable when a view is a removed projected or auxiliary view (i.e.- no longer aligned with the view from which it is projected).  The most common practice is for a drawing to have projected/auxiliary views that remain aligned to their parent view.  For these aligned proj/aux views (which would be the vast majority of views), there is no need to have a view label or the corresponding projection arrows. It would be most beneficial to be able to establish a default state where the view notes/labels are not generated for all projected/auxiliary views while still enabling users to easily add a view label to the individual views they choose.  Currently, projection arrows can be added no matter what the config option settings are.  This request aligns with that intent of being able to easily add a view label whenever desired no matter the value of these related config options.

5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization?
Improve efficiency and accuracy of drawing creation.  Currently, we have customized symbols to help facilitate ease of applying standard view labels.  Being able to use the embedded Creo functionality instead of the customized symbols would allow the same definition to occur faster, while also maintaining connectivity between the displayed view name in the view label and the view name in the projection arrow - both being driven from the populated name of the view in Creo, otherwise at least one of them is driven manually without any connectivity to the actual view.

[N.Barnes]

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders.
The Stake holders are all people who make drawings in Creo Parametric.  

2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running?
Creo 7

3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video.

It should be possible to manually add an automatically updating view label in the drawing package.  I should be able to just type "&view_label:view_name"   Where "view_name" is the current view name, and in the future, that will update similar to other attributes in Creo.    Alternatively, a button could be added to the view properties to give the user the option to turn the label display on or off.

This is acknowledged as a deficiency in CS188310.  And been requested in "Further functionality for Creo Parametric DRAWING ...".     The configuration options "make_aux_view_notes" and "make_proj_view_notes" only work when the view is initially created, but is potentially not helpful if the view is moved to another sheet later in the design cycle.  Forcing the view to be recreated, or changed to a section view to get labels to appear.   Also, the user may not want view labels for all views.  I've also been able to cycle from a projection view to a general view, then back to projection view.   But, a button in the options view properties would be easier.

4. What is the use case for your organization?
Making drawings and referencing drawing view locations

5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization?
It would make drawings easier to maintain.

[olivierlp]

Thank you @N.Barnes for your idea. Based on the information you provided, we are acknowledging it as the Community management team. This is not a commitment from the Product team. Other users may comment and vote your idea up.

[olivierlp]

Thank you @ML_5041200 for your idea and welcome to the Community. Based on the information you provided, we are acknowledging it as the Community management team. This is not a commitment from the Product team. Other users may comment and vote your idea up.

[N.Barnes]

This is at least the third time improvements in view labeling have been requested.  Hopefully this deficiency gets more than "acknowledged" at some point.   

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