Creating Drawing Templates and Start Parts

[skarf2]

Hello, I am a pretty experienced Pro-E user, but I have just moved to a new job in which I am the first mechanical engineer at the company, let alone the first Pro-E user. I want to get some part, assembly, and drawing templates set up and I am having some trouble.

For one thing, when I am setting up my drawing template, I am trying to get my user-defined parameters from my part templates to appear in the drawings. In my part templates, I have created several of the standard parameters (DESC, DESC2, DRAWN_BY, REV, etc...). In my drawing template, I have attempted to reference these using what I thought was the standard practice (&<parameter name>) However, when I create a part and the corresponding drawing using these templates, none of the "&<parameter name>" fields will fill in. What am I doing wrong?

As I said, I'm pretty new to the admin and setup side of Pro/E, so expect similar questions coming from my direction in the future. Thanks for the help!

 

[robertib]

What you are looking for is not a drawing template, but a format.

A drawing template is primarily used to layout the views, and the format is the drawing border (which allows the parameters to be setup correctly).

 

[skarf2]

You're right. Sorry for the misnomer. What I have been using is a drawing format. I took a default format, renamed it, and modified it as necessary. I'm still having the same problems as described above.

 

[dgallup]

The parameters have to be text in tables.

 

[skarf2]

I have entered them as text into the title block. For instance, in the title block I have included

.xx = &linear_tol_0_00
.xxx = &linear_tol_0_000
.xxxx = &linear_tol_0_0000

&model_name

&scale

These have all worked as expected. However, and user defined parameters that I have entered within the title block will simple not appear. Also, the &mat material command has not produced anything either.

 

[skarf2]

Problem solved. I changed the title block to a series of tables, and the problem resolved itself. Thanks dgallup