If defining this value from the CAD assembly you only need to specify a value for one of the instances and it will propagate to the Part structure appropriately. you are not required to fill in the value for all instances.
We are very interested in knowing more details about the challenges in implementing this in V5 in our company, would you be able to point me to a subject matter expert within PTC that could explain in more details the reasons why this cannot be done in V5?
That seems easier than creating and managing the component parameters on their own - I assume the propagation is handled in Windchill or is Creo responsible for making the assignments uniform?
The assignment is made uniform on the Windchill side when the corresponding (WTPart) Product Structure is built. I don't believe it will auto-fill this on every instance of CAD component, this I would need to check. Note, that in Windchill 11 for Creo and NX you can assign these values on the Product Structure from the PSB and propagate them down to CAD (top-down). This relies on the same configuration and attribute mapping setup as required for pushing this data from CAD to product structure (bottom-up).
After looking through some of the comments. Do you know if there is a way to automatically publish Reference Designator names on a W2 structure? Or from Creo is it possible to automatically publish Feature names? I have done some searching and am not coming up with anything. I'm not to familiar with programming in Creo myself but I would guess that could be a option.
