Creating and Assigning Material

[SteveVan]

Is there a way to assign a material to a part from a list.
Example: If I assign Steel to a part, I want it to ask what kind of steel: bar stock, flat Stock, or Sheet.
If I select bar stock I want to select from a list the available material types of bar stock we have in stock
(CF 1018). After I select (CF 1018) I want to select from a list the available diameters of the bar stock. I also want the assigned material to automatically fill out the parameter setting used in the drawing.
Thanks for any help

 

[Guest0527211403]

I don't think that can be done without a custom developed application (i.e. Pro/Toolkit).

If you're feeling adventurous, take a look at Pro/Web.Link. It has commands for accessing and modifying parameters through Javascript written in a webpage (loaded up in the Pro/E browser).

 

[cadcamguy]

you might want to wait for wf4...vba
I'm seeing a demo monday

or VB if you have it...be pretty easy
but external app. and you need 6 or .net

 

[Guest0527211403]

Is the demo from PTC? Let us know how it goes if you can

 

[cadcamguy]

jkg,
it was from a vendor. It's seems to be closer to vb than vba .
They didn't get into much detail, but looks promising

 

[SteveVan]

Thanks for the replies. Just to let you guy's know I had 3 replies from the forum in the time it took Pro-e tech line to call me back. They said it might be possible with Pro tool kit but he wasn't sure. Thanks again for the fast response.

 

[Guest0527211403]

"They said it might be possible with Pro tool kit but he wasn't sure"...

That's one of the reasons my employers choose not to pay maintenance...

 

[Hora]

ProToolkit can do this. Assigning the material to a part is quite easy, but creating the database can take you some time.

-Hora

 

[cadcamguy]

Steve,

if you chain a os mapkey in with another normal proe mapkey

ex;.... mapkey ed %wd;%tr;

and wd is a bat or exe.... proe waits till it's done to resume the mapkey tr

so you could use anything that compiles to a exe, gives you the ability to make choices and can write that to a .txt file ...vb,net,c,vbs..etc.