Detail view notation format

[nhanratty]

All

Does anybody know what settings (dtl/config/format file) controls the format used for detail view notations in a drawing?

I have attached two images one from a user's PC with the notation we use and one from a user's PC where the notation is very different.

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[mlocascio]

Neal Hanratty,



That is a drawing option and not a modeling option. I remember playing
around with this before and I ended up saving a dtl file for this
configuration.



Take a look at the image that I have included here:







Michael P. Locascio

[StephenW]

Neal,
It's detail_circle_note_text and the value should be DEFAULT...seems like an odd value but that gives you the 'SEE DETAIL'

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You can make it anything you want...in this case, I set it do say 'NEAL'

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[ptc-187142]

yes, that's a drawing .dtl setting. the name's 'view_scale_format'. defaults to 'decimal' but you can change it to a couple types of outputs.

Matt Bracht

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[mlocascio]

Nice touch!

[dduncan-2]

In Reply to

[StephenW]

Sorry, I don't know of an option to adjust the name under the detail view. Seems like a very reasonable request especially since we can control the name on the leader note.

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[FredMatthis]

Does anyone know how to turn off the "scale" note, but leave the " detail name" part of the note.
We do not want to show any scales on our drawings.
I already have a format note that says do not scale drawing
but I would like to erase the "scale 2:1" part of the note.


Fred J. Matthis
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[TracyWillis]

Not sure about any other release but in Creo parametric 2.0, You can change the view name of the detail view in the drawing tree
Right Click > Rename…. the system still puts the word DETAIL in front of the name though… PTC “almost got another one” ☺

Have a good day &_STUFF
Tw

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[StephenW]

Haha, we’ve had this discussion here at work and on this forum before. I don’t believe there is an option to turn off the scale. To be complete, showing scale on the drawing is an ASME requirement even if you have a note on your drawing that says “do not scale drawing” which is on every drawing I have ever produced at every company I have worked at.

Having the scale on the drawing does not really facilitate scaling a drawing. It’s more about having the size ratio on the print so you know that the bolt hole in one view isn’t physically 3 times larger than the bolt hole in another view.

All of this is my opinion (except the ASME part) and I think if a company wants to not have it on their drawings, that is okay as long as they are consistent.

[nrollins]

What we’ve always done is simply move the callout off the format – hang it out in space. Bad practice, I know – but that was the decision. And it works…

[StephenW]

We had a manager one time demand no scales displayed on the drawings so we changed the scale note size to .001. You still get the SECTION A-A part but the scale note is just a little dot. Horrible work-around but it met the demand.

That manager has since left. Thankfully.

[TomU]

I don’t know of any way to change/eliminate the view/scale note automatically, but you can certainly delete it. Just pick on the note and hit ‘Delete’.

[dduncan-2]

I submitted a Product Enhancement Request to allow the view_note option to match the detail_circle_note_text. So now we need votes to move it up the ladder for consideration. I know this seems trivial but I'm tired of having to change the text every time I create a detailed view. It creates a needless opportunity for a checker comment if I forget to change it.

Don

[StephenW]

Don't forget to vote on your own enhancement in the forum!!

[davehaigh]

Perhaps you should look at it this way. It's the checkers job to find problems. If they don't find something wrong, they will nit-pick just so they can mark something up.

This give them a bone they can go after, and they will be satisfied with that.

I see this in all kinds of government oversight jobs. It's their job to find problems, sometimes it's better to have a typo or some other simple obvious problem, so they don't start nit-picking other things that may add up to lots of work.

David Haigh

[TerryMcFall]

Sounds like we need a new config.pro setting:

obvious_error (yes/no)
Adds large text spelling error text to face of the drawing.

That'll do it!

-Ter

[mlocascio]

I am not sure exactly what you are asking for. I can tell you that the view
name text CAN be edited to add information under it.



Michael P. Locascio

[mlocascio]

I tried that post and it said something like "the post is not valid."

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