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MA_105959803-Newcomer
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February 21, 2023
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Link a familly table drawing to instances during in the research

  • February 21, 2023
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Hi,

I made a family table drawing for all my instances.

But when i'm search a instance i can't found the family table drawing cause there is no link.

How can i make it appear during the research of each instance?

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

 

4 replies

joe_morton
18-Opal
joe_morton18-Opal
18-Opal
February 21, 2023

How are you searching? If you are doing a general search on the part number, you can get Windchill to return the drawing if that part number appears in the name, number, or file name.

For actual linking, you can add the generic model to the drawing if you haven't already. 

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MA_105959803-NewcomerAuthor
3-Newcomer
February 22, 2023

Hi Joe,

My family table drawing is made with the generic model called: name "model_screw" number "2376000000" file name "2376000000". (..drw / .prt / .article)

The instances name / number / file name are:

name "screw1" number "2376000001" file name "2376000001".
name "screw2" number "2376000002" file name "2376000002".
etc
When I do a general search with the instance number: ex 2376000002, Windchill give me only the .prt and article of the instance 2376000002.

I would like to get 2376000000.drw (generic drawing) appears in search results.

 

I tried to make a link by adding in my generic drawing 2376000000.drw all my instance in Drawing Models. It doesn't works.

 

HelesicPetr
22-Sapphire II
HelesicPetr22-Sapphire II
22-Sapphire II
February 22, 2023

Hi @MA_10595980 

If you created drawing just for a generic model, the links are not created to the instances 

You need to put all your instances to the drawing thanks that reference links will be crated. 

PetrH 

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MA_105959803-NewcomerAuthor
3-Newcomer
February 22, 2023

Hi HelesicPetr, 

That's what i did.

So i've got a link in the Related Objet section of my instance. But not it still not appears in search results. Is it even possible?

HelesicPetr
22-Sapphire II
HelesicPetr22-Sapphire II
22-Sapphire II
March 1, 2023

Hi @MA_10595980 

as others mentioned this is standard behavior. If you need to search for drawing with part number you need to use different way combinated with a report template   

PetrH

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18-Opal
d_graham18-Opal
18-Opal
February 24, 2023

This, it is doable, but you need a lot more than simply adding models to the drawing.

 

In the example below I'm doing essentially the same thing you're looking for.

I want to find all Creo Layouts used by a particular Creo Format.

 

The Format is to your Drawing as the Layouts are to the drawing's models.

 

The trick is knowing Query Builder and Related Objects Search.

 

So, I create my query report.  No big deal there.

Then I go to Advanced search.

Here's the part that you need to pay attention to.

In the criteria field enter the object(s) you are trying to find.  I wanted only Layouts, so I went with *.LAY.

Then in the related object search I entered the number of the Format I was curious about.

d_graham_0-1677254342111.png

Seach returns that E.FRM is used by only one layout.

d_graham_1-1677254683892.png

 

If I want to see all Layouts referenced by all formats I simple wildcard my format input to be *.FRM rather than E.FRM

d_graham_2-1677254896497.png

Search returns all layouts used by all formats.

d_graham_3-1677255009528.png

 

In your case, you'd enter *.* to return all drawing models

and in the Related Object Search fields you should include the drawing's number, revision and the iteration.

My example has only number available to enter, it's just a demo, but you'd really want Number, Revision and Iteration.

 

Hint: use like in your query builder to be able to wildcard inputs.

 

David

MarcoTosin
21-Topaz I
MarcoTosin21-Topaz I
21-Topaz I
March 1, 2023

There are plenty of ready-made reports for searching family tables, drawings, models.

 

This is a summary document, out of date, where you can find several reports in both the ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT section and the EPMDoc REPORT section.

 

The same document also explains how to use a report query builder to perform a search from the Windchill interface

 

This is the support home page where there are several resources explaining how to use query builder reports, including the above article

 

And this is an article, not exhaustive, where there are links to a whole series of reports, ready-made, divided by feature or module.

 

 

 

Marco
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