Version: Windchill 12.1
Use Case: Trying to map NX model attribute/property to the NX drawing file
Description:
Using the master model system in NX, where the model data is in one file, and the drawing data is in another file. The attribute/property DESCRIPTION is entered in the NX model file, and mapped to Windchill, so it can be displayed in a column in WGM. In the drawing templates, we use DB_DWG_TEMPLATE_DESCRIPTION to map this attribute from the NX model file to the NX drawing file, for use in the drawing format title block, but this does not work to populate the DESCRIPTION attribute/property in the drawing file. For that we have to manually copy it, type it, or link it via inter part object attribute. We would like to automate this, to prevent errors, or simply forgetting to do it.
When forgotten, it looks like this in WGM:
We do have PTC_WM_IS_DRAWING set to "true", so Windchill should know it is a drawing, vs. an assembly.
How would we go about mapping this? Do I need to use a different attribute/property in the NX drawing file, so somehow pull in the DESCRIPTION attribute from the model in Windchill?
Have you looked through this documentation on Configuring Windchill Attributes with NX?
There's a difference between the system attributes (Windchill defines, those. Things like Name, Number, PTC_WM_IS_DRAWING that you're already using) and custom attributes.
For description (defined at the parent EPMDocument type level on your admin side of things), you can define which attribute name on the NX side maps to that Windchill attribute. Creo and NX can have different values there (see this page from the above link).
To have the same attribute then be used on the drawing, you use the attribute name as defined in the model on your drawing template where you want it to show up. I normally have all of that be driven from the model side so the drawing ends up just being a collection of imported model attributes.
