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Creating and Assigning Material

Creating and Assigning Material

Creating and Assigning Material

(OP)
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
            

RE: Creating and Assigning Material

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).

RE: Creating and Assigning Material

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





RE: Creating and Assigning Material

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

RE: Creating and Assigning Material

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

RE: Creating and Assigning Material

(OP)
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.

RE: Creating and Assigning Material

"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...

RE: Creating and Assigning Material

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

-Hora

RE: Creating and Assigning Material

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.

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