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I never had to right click... just left mouse button in the drawing tree on the view and it would bring up whatever I had hilited in the show annotation filter. ... or the LMB of the features in the model tree below it.

The issue seems to come and go. It could clearly be demonstrated when we started the call, but now we can't get it to reoccur. It seems like maybe it has something to do with a config option, but not sure yet. As soon as one of us can figure out the problem I'll repost back to the community.

You may want to check the Drawing Tree to make sure you're not dealing with "Overlays". They can't be manipulated like a standard view. You need to call up the Overlay sub-menu from the Layout Tab. I don't use them very often - when I do I leave a bold annotation outside the drawing format to warn the "next" user that they're dealing with a sheet that contains Overlays.

I have an issue in drawings where occasionally my drawing tree will completely disappear, and is replaced by a detail tree, which is blank, I try to activate and deactivate the window to no avail. The layer tree will now only show in the model tree lower window, where as it usually resides in the upper drawing tree window. If I restart CREO the problem goes away and the drawing tree is restored.

It suggests that in such situation you should try closing the drawing window and reopening it again from session. If it would work, it still might be a bit better than having to restart whole Creo. There's no information why this happens, though.

When this happens, what tab is active in the ribbon? If the Annotate tab is active the Detail Tree will be shown. I sometimes get onto other tabs in the ribbon when using the scroll wheel on m mouse to reposition the model. If the mouse is on the ribbon, the scroll wheel will cause the ribbon to cycle through the tabs.

This was my initial thoughts also, but I scroll through every tab its stuck on detail tree, so something's clearly not right. The only way I have found is to close CREO and reopen then it's back to normal.

Thanks for the KB suggestion. Admittedly I hadn't tried reopening from session, and indeed this would be a better option. This has happened to me a few times now, I cannot recreate it on command, next time it does happen I'll try reopening from session as suggested.

I am working with a drawing that contains various text entities to include text in the drawing format, text in notes, and text in other tables. As I stumble through drawing creation or revisions I notice that these various text entities contain parameter callouts and text formatting code. I understand and appreciate this approach as things like drawing revisions will automatically update if the appropriate parameter is used. Also, for example, being able to put boxes around a portion of text in a note is important for flag notes and such.

I was having trouble getting the drawing revision to update from "-" to "A" in my drawing format. The table cell properties for the revision showed the parameter "&PROI_REVISION:1" which resulted in "-" in the revision block. After some time playing with this code I changed it to be "&PROI_REVISION:D". I'm not sure why this worked but it did. I suspect that the former was pulling the value of the revision parameter of the part shown in the views and the latter was pulling the value of the rev parameter of the drawing but this is just a guess. I don't like having to guess to get something to look correct. Let me emphasize LOOK CORRECT because even though the rev now shows "A" I'm still not sure if that is truly the drawing revision. I need to be sure.

It's not guessing as much as reading all the documentation. No one can help determine the correct drawing revision except someone in your organization. However, I can give some hints about parameters:

&total_holes where total_holes is a parameter or the name of a dimension
&d31:45 where d31 is the name of a dimension and 45 is the session ID of the component the dimension is from (Use Info/Switch Dimensions to show the symbolic names used on a drawing and to see the related session IDs.)

&scale (this is the default scale of the active model on a drawing. If there is more than one model for a drawing the value for this may not represent what is correct for the model shown on any particular sheet.)

The system will search what it's attached to fill out the parameters, assuming it has those parameters. Watch out for cross sections, you have to attach to a surface not an edge, the edge belongs to the assy, not the sectioned component.

The "&PROI_REVISION:D" is the revision of the drawing as reported by the proi_revision parameter from intralink. When you add the ":D" (colon D if it decides to change it to an emoticon), it reports the parameter associated from the drawing (as opposed to the part or assembly).

We used to use the old proi_version parameters because we would get the little + sign next to it if it was modified and not checked in. with the new PTC_wm that goes away completely. I am guessing because its reading from Windchill and not the Workspace?

The "+" to show modification was replaced by a logical parameter &PTC_MODIFIED:D (:D for the drawing). You can use this parameter to indicate YES/NO or TRUE/FALSE depending on your drawing setup .dtl option yes_no_parameter_display.

what does placing a ":1" at the end of a parameter do to it? I understand that directs the parameter to pull from the drawing, but I can't seem to find documentation yet which explains what effect the ":1" would have

What @pausob said is correct. Any number after a colon is a session ID. Placing a :1 after a parameter doesn't automatically cause it to refer to a drawing, it just refers to the second thing loaded into Creo's memory since the memory was last erased. That particular session ID could be a part, assembly, or drawing.

Does anyone know how to do dynamics notes? I'm looking to utilize my FIND # from my BOM in my sheet notes but whenever I add a part to my BOM the numbers that correspond to my part in the notes has to be manually changed. Is there a way to set in a note a specific cell in a column of the rpt.index that is the FIND # column?

As a bit of interest, you can have more than one table in a drawing associated with an assembly and have entirely different index numbers in that table, or a simplified rep associated to the table and different item numbers.

Is it possible to import drawing page creo into a new drawing Creo Parametric but with associativity ?
With the functionnalitie import drawing/data is possible to insert a specific page in my new drawing buth without link
Maybe option or specific application?

If I understand correctly then no, this is not supported with the import function in drawing mode. When you import a Creo drawing it creates a snapshot of the drawing at the time of import and is not associative with the source drawing after import.

Yes, this is possible. If you have an existing Creo drawing you can use the import function to import the drawing to another drawing. When you do this, it will create sheets as required in the target drawing.

When you import a Creo drawing you import the entire drawing contents (not formats), not just a single page. If you need a single page, you will need to configure that in a Creo drawing before importing it.

The imported "drawing" will remain associative with its parents (models etc.). There is no new "link" created between the source and target drawings when using this import function. The target drawing will have the required models added to it that are needed to regenerate the imported drawing elements.

This is an oversimplified reference map of how this works when importing a drawing. The target drawing ends up being dependent on models A & B. If you want to not have this dependency, then you need to import a different data structure other than a Creo drawing.

Actually, I have "tol_display" set to "no" in my config.pro file because I don't like seeing the tolerances in the model, but I have it set to "yes" in my .dtl file, and it works fine for me. It doesn't have to be set to "yes" in both.

He had forgotten to change default units settings from Inches to milimeters in model, and afterwards he had created drafting using template with metric dimensioning. We have struggled for a few minutes, final solution was changing model units to mm and starting new drawing.

I have a client who has created a fairly extensive model of a device using Creo. He has hired me to create 2D drawings from his model. We are struggling to convert the Creo files to an AutoCAD format. Within Creo, there are several parameters to be set in the export process and I've not experience with Creo and can't help him. Though trial and error, he has been able to export drawings so that AutoCAD recognizes them as solids but so far, when I explode an item in a drawing that he has converted to dwg, say a flat plate with holes in it, the circles representing the holes are actually two semi-circles. I am hoping someone knows the proper settings of the parameters within Creo in order to produce a dwg file that will behave as if it were created in AutoCAD. BTW, Simply saving the Creo drawing to a dwg format does not work. The model comes in as triangular surfaces when he does that.

I have requested the drawings in Creo asm and prt format. I plan to try the import command in AutoCAD of those formats to see how that works. Perhaps letting AutoCAD perform the translation is the solution.

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