Pro/E Libraries
Pro/E Libraries
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Pro/E comes with quite a comprehensive UDF and Fastener library. Does anyone know of a clever way to output a unique description for each member in the fastener family table? Our company uses a assembly BOM that uses a repeat region column labled "&description". Currently we copy desired fasteners over from the Pro/E library-to make new parts as needed. While this works OK, it doesn't seem to be a very advanced (or fast) method of using libraries. Does anyone have any tips on driving BOM format descriptions off of standard library family tables?
Thx
jim@tactex.com
Thx
jim@tactex.com





RE: Pro/E Libraries
Feature>Create>Paramter
Then go to the family table and select the paramter to be added. You ill have to fill out each part description in the family table. This took a little time but worked really well.
RE: Pro/E Libraries
What I ended up doing was creating a parametric note within the generic instance of each fastener. The note "calls for" the nominal diameter,thread pitch and length from the family table. I then created another note through "parameters" which "calls up" the model note. The title of the note is "description"-which our BOM will pick up. This way I can call up any fastener any length from the standard Pro/E library and the description will be as accurate as the info entered by PTC. One problem though, PTC has only entered this information about fastener diameter and pitch into the Metric library!
Oh well-so much for short cuts.....
jim@tactex.com