Hello everyone and welcome to blog post #7 in this multibody blog series. This post also attempts to answer another body parameter related question:
How can I display, use or call-out a body parameter?
If you want to call out a body parameter then you have to use the syntax as explained in the Creo help here.
&<param_name>:BID_<body_feature_ID>
Or
&<param_name>:BID_<body_userdefined_name>
Note: For bodies that have the default name (body 1, body 2, etc) you cannot use the system-defined default body name but you have to use the body’s Feature ID. (The reason is that the system-defined names such as body 1, body 2, etc are localized and translated into other languages and therefore not representing stable references across languages.)
Example:
Let’s assume we have 2 bodies. Here their names and parameters list.
To call out the parameter “MY_BODY_INFO” for both bodies, we can now use the following for body 1
- &MY_BODY_INFO:BID_-5778
And one of the following options for the WHEEL body (which has id 6105)
- &MY_BODY_INFO:BID_6105
- &MY_BODY_INFO:BID_WHEEL
So if you create a note and enter:
You will see the resulting note text being:
I think we have a preference of using body names. Therefore the system automatically tries to convert the body IDs to body names where possible.
So when you go back to the call-out symbol definition, you will see it being changed to
Thanks for reading. I hope it was informative.
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Enjoy!....Martin
