I wanted to enable users to run a mapkey with a Creo part on the screen and to sit back, watch the flashing text and bingo - there is most of the drawing done. (Just views and Dimensions must be added)
I got the mapkey to work nicely on parts - depending what type of drawing the user needs, he can type in the mapkey and then the drawing is created and populated with most of the company requirement regarding notes and symbols. The notes and symbols are placed using X and Y positions on the drawing.
The first problem I had was to populate the text box with the drawing number. I overcame this by opening tools/parameters and then copy the drawing number parameter to the clipboard and pasting this in the new drawing text box.
This works great when creating part drawings.
Here is the question: When I use this method to populate an assembly drawing number, it only works correctly for that drawing.
When I use the mapkey on another assembly drawing, The &draw_number is correct in the title block, but the file name is the same as the drawing I used when creating the mapkey?
The cut and paste works in real time, but not from the mapkey.
I tried to run a rename at the end of the mapkey, but I still cannot correct the file name to the same number as the drawing name.
Any suggestions?
I got the mapkey to work nicely on parts - depending what type of drawing the user needs, he can type in the mapkey and then the drawing is created and populated with most of the company requirement regarding notes and symbols. The notes and symbols are placed using X and Y positions on the drawing.
The first problem I had was to populate the text box with the drawing number. I overcame this by opening tools/parameters and then copy the drawing number parameter to the clipboard and pasting this in the new drawing text box.
This works great when creating part drawings.
Here is the question: When I use this method to populate an assembly drawing number, it only works correctly for that drawing.
When I use the mapkey on another assembly drawing, The &draw_number is correct in the title block, but the file name is the same as the drawing I used when creating the mapkey?
The cut and paste works in real time, but not from the mapkey.
I tried to run a rename at the end of the mapkey, but I still cannot correct the file name to the same number as the drawing name.
Any suggestions?
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