Part and Assembly drawings, Title block material.

Question

I’d like to have one drawing format for both part drawings and assembly drawings. Drawing size formats, B, C, D, E inclusive. In the title block, of a part drawing, there is a table cell with “&PTC_MATERIAL_NAME”. When the part is assigned a material, this cell automatically gets filled in with the material name.

In the assembly drawing the BOM table, material column has “&asm.mbr.ptc_material.PTC_MATERIAL_NAME” as the repeat region and works correctly by assigning the proper material from the part. This leaves the title block material cell blank, as assemblies do not recognize the “&PTC_MATERIAL_NAME”, in the assembly parameters. I would like the title block material cell to be fill in automatically with, ‘SEE PARTS LIST”. And still work for parts. Then also for sub-assemblies to display “SEE PARTS LIST”.

Your help is most welcome.

Dan Pasholk

TomU · Answer

Dan Pasholk‌, use a single cell repeat region with relations. You can easily construct the repeat region relations to display "SEE PARTS LIST" when the PTC_MATERIAL_NAME parameter is empty (or doesn't exist).

See this discussion for how to create the region: Re: Creating a note that fills in model parameters automatically

See this discussion for an example of repeat region relations: Re: Help with coding inside a bom table

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