Date and time of plot on pdf using CREO

[kaengo]

Hi!

Our very small engineering office is now switching from WF 4.0 to CREO 2.0
We have no data management system.
We make all plots paper-free from CREO to a pdf, using "save a copy". (mapkey)

We need the date and time of the plot on the pdf. (outside the border at the right bottom corner)

At WF 4.0 we used the usg tools. They worked fine.
The mapkey first actualised the value of the Parameter '&plotdate'
using sPlotdate of the uTools and than did the export of the pdf.

Now, the tool is no longer working with CREO.

Has anyone an idea?

I tried to get sPlotdate working by installing manually
(I copied uTools.jar and uTools.exe to CREO2.0\Common Files\M080\text\java and copied the utools section from protk.dat)

I tried copieing the date to the clipboard by system commands and pasting to a parameter (CTRL+V isn't working inside a mapkey)
I tried editing the cell of the table and pasting the clipboard text directly, not using a parameter. (Mapkey doesn't edit the table without additional clicks)
I tried editing a note and reading in a prepared file (Mapkey doesn't edit note without additional clicks ...)

I also read this.

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=94575

And this

https://www.ptcusercommunity.com/message/457157#457157

All until now NO SUCCESS.
Does anyone know a way?
Greetings, Holger

 

[loki3000]

i think that some pdf printers have that option...

 

[3DDave]

Try creating the Note from File. To keep them from building up, delete the existing note by putting it on a layer and selecting by layer in the search tool.

Step 1: Find existing note by layer
Step 2: Delete existing note
Step 3: Create new note from File
Step 4: Put new note on layer for future selection to delete

This should work, with the needed clicks added in between.

 

[kaengo]

Hi!
Thanks for the tips

Question 1): If I want to set a note via mapkey, the mapkey always stops to ask me where to put it.
How can I do automatically?

Question 2): How can I put exactly this note to a certain layer by mapkey?

At this time, I've solved the project as following:

If I generate the drawing, I make a note via mapkey and name it at the drawing tree by hand.
I have recorded a mapkey, which selects the note by name and edits the content using a file C/temp/datestamp.txt .

Another mapkey generates C/temp/datestamp.txt using system commands

For printing, I have a mapkey, which first updates datestamp.txt, then renews the note and afterwards does the ,save copy as pdf'

It works.

One blemish: I must name the note by hand.
But OK, this is only one times...

Best regards,
kaengo





H.Steffen

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