Sheet metal parameters in drawings.

Hi,

Is there a way to show the K factor (SMT_K_FACTOR from Edit>Setup>Sheet
Metal>Parameters...) as a parametric note in a drawing?

Thanks in advance,
Chris Kirchen

 

Hi,

Is there a way to show the K factor (SMT_K_FACTOR from Edit>Setup>Sheet
Metal>Parameters...) as a parametric note in a drawing?

I doubt it. Most of the stuff in Setup was not available anywhere else than through the Setup menu. So, it wasn't parametric, except in THAT context. So, you couldn't put it in notes or relations or create parameters by assignment. Even stuff like mp_mass which could have its value assigned to a parameter, was more like a generated measure and involved kludgey workarounds to keep it up to date. There's a long, involved and not too glorious history to this junk and it's a long way from getting completely resolved. And, since sheetmetal is lagging in going to Dashboard functionality, the most backward of sheetmetal ~ the Setup part ~ lags the laggards. (Hey, maybe I'm just ill informed and someone else has some cheery good news!)

 

"Hey, maybe I'm just ill informed "

The most unlikely statement you ever made.

 

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Here, here.

Well, I keep thinking that maybe Pro/Toolkit or J-link provides a hook into such parameters and maybe some ambitious, clever user's come up with a way to do it, maybe would post the code here. I don't know why, but we don't do that, share code for useful apps. And I think some of the best, most needed would be the ones that support the functionality that PTC about 30% developed and dropped. How about, for example, a real macro editor that lets you edit or even create macros without them being some dumbass copy of mouse movements. Anyway, there could be all kinds of stuff like that out there that I'm completely unaware of, though, you're right, what PTC is or is NOT up to I am pretty much on top of or try to be. Any chance Pro/e will get some decent text/note/editing capability out of PTC's purchase of Arbortext?