Synch parameters between models

Is there a way to synch parameters between models?

Thanks

 

Sounds like a great idea, but no, there's no "synch parameters" function.
ModelCheck has something similar, to add parameters but without copying values (it
adds the parameters then bugs you to add the values); and I've heard of using a
Start part, imported somehow, to get the values into another model. This comes up
constantly with legacy data and it's a wonder there isn't something out there, on
the market, to accomplish precisely this task. (YOu know that once someone else
did the work to invent the thing, PTC'd come right along behind with a nice check
to buy them out. Nothing independent survives with PTC around. But I'm thinking
that the 'bought out' like it like that.)

Pro/e's many backward features offer oddles of opportunities for commercial
invention. Likely candidates lie on the flat and inhospitalbe ground of
"Edit>Setup". Macros in Pro/e (called, uniquely, proprietarily "Mapkeys") are a
hideous mess, needing a documented programming language, an interface,
editability, debug capability and fundamental separation from menuing. Other
candidates lie in the equally inhospitable land of non-configurable "settings",
ones which provide 'some' way to change them but no way to change their default
values. And there's DOZENS of them!!!

 

David Janes a écrit :

I do this with weblink

 

I agree that the WEBLink method should do the trick, here are some
other dirty ways to do it depending on how and when you want to sync!

1. If you are using Intralink or PDMLink you can write a Oracle skript
or trigger that updates Pro/E parameters by predefined rules.

2. In the Pro/Program Input/End Input section of your startpart define
that you want to read the parameter values from an external file at
regeneration.
Now you only have to update this textfile and all models will get the
new value at regeneration.

Hugo

 

That's nice, I've never even been able to find documentation on what weblink is or
what you can do with it. Care to give us the 15 second tour?

 

David

Where do i start?
Are you familiar with JLink?

Both JLink and WebLink are java based API's (Application Programing
Interface) to Pro/Engineer.
In short you can actually run/call Pro/Engineer functions from a java
application (JLink) or from a JavaScript (WebLink)
JavaScripts are normally run within a html page and a web browser and
thereby the name WebLink.
The API consist of a lot of java classes with methods and properties
that allow your program to communicate with Pro/Engineer.
Besides all the Pro/Engineer functions you also have the power of the
general java/javascript language.

What you can du with it you ask?, hmmm
A lot of the functions you use when working in Pro/Engineer is
available trough the API.
I have created a very userfrendly html page in WebLink for changing
model parameters, here i show the user a description of all the
parameters he/she needs to fill out and what they do, i also restrict
values for some of the parameters using a simple dropdown box created
using javascript.
If im not mistaking the Pro/Engineer ModelCheck applications is all
created in WebLink.
The API is installed by default when installing Pro/E and is free to
use by anyone.

Pro/E has a third API called Pro/Toolkit, This is based on the C
programming language and is more powerfull but also has a higher
learning curve.

You can find more info on Jlink and WebLink in the jlink and weblink
folders in your proe install dir.

Hugo

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