Paul Sagar: any updates on this? Its now been over 3 years since you made the statement that will be considered. The idea has been locked so its impossible for people to up vote this for further visibility.
Once an idea has been assigned a status, as this one is "for future consideration", the voting is removed. You would think that after 4 years, but, well, sometimes, ummmhhh, well, okay, I'll think, well, sooooo, MAYBE.
Obviously there is something technically challenging in this that is buried deep in the code that makes it near impossible.
31 character file limit is not sufficient. There are customers that need a meaningful description reflected on the native drawing file name we provide them with. Even with extensive truncation, we still struggle to satisfy our client's requirements. I imagine the reason on this restriction is because Pro-E is written on Unix which has a 31 character limit, so I have been wondering if this is going to be the case or would be any work around.
Thanks for the update. Toby Metcalf can you change the tag for this idea from "FOR FUTURE CONSIDERATION" to "UNDER CONSIDERATION" so that people can continue to vote on it and make it more visible? I would guess that multiple of these ideas are being worked on. Having more votes might provide it more visibility to those making decisions about resources being spent. It might also prevent this idea from being created multiple times if its closer to the top.
It is really true!!! 31 digits is not enough. I had complaint this many many years ago but somehow PTC can't change this, funny enough!!. And they do not seem to know how to do it (??)
A 32 character limit is not sufficient for designs. In today's conditions, most CAD programs allow more than 32 characters to be used. I think Pro / ENGINEER should be able to use more characters as soon as possible. Especially the EMN and EMP files we use during ECAD / MCAD studies are very troublesome.
To handover data in Creo 4.0 from CATIA, NX via UGM makes not really fun if the original file name has to be shortened. ame problem handling idf or idx files from ecad systems if the footprint name is equal in the 1st 40 chars. It is a must which is long overdue.
