topic Re: Using a Symbol in a drawing format table in 3D Part & Assembly Design

Using a Symbol in a drawing format table

BenLoosli — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 01:39:51 GMT

I have seen articles from WF5 stating that you can pull a symbol into a table cell or a not by using the &sym(<symbol path/name>) construct. In Creo 2, I can not get this to work.I have tried:&sym(symbol.sym)&sym(x:\path\symbol.sym){0:&sym(symbol.sym)}{0:&sym(x:\path\symbol.sym)}I

Re: Using a Symbol in a drawing format table

manjunathrv — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 18:50:08 GMT

Did you first call the actual symbol into session before trying this?

Re: Using a Symbol in a drawing format table

MartinHanak — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 19:01:09 GMT

I also suggest to use following startup steps:

create drawing
place a symbol into drawing
remove the symbol
create note containing &sym(name)
create a table and put &sym(name) into table cell

Note: I am not sure, if the above procedure works. I can test it later.

Re: Using a Symbol in a drawing format table

BenLoosli — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 19:37:07 GMT

I am trying to add the symbol to a drawing format.

I have loaded the format into the session. The 2 symbols are in the format but not 'tied' to the table cells.

I have moved them aside and then added the text &sym(third_angle.sym) to the cell and Creo only displays the text, not the symbol in the cell.

This is the folder with my symbol names.

This is a snip of the drawing sheet. The symbol is placed, then I tried to add it to the table cell.

This is Creo2 m160, but the same results as m220 on my other system.

Re: Using a Symbol in a drawing format table

James62 — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 19:57:24 GMT

Ben,

When working with symbols I always delete the iteration number behind the file extension in the filename and then what you describe works for me everytime.

I remember putting symbols in WF4 M220 and it worked the same way it does in Creo Parametric 2.0.

Would you mind uploading your frm file with your two symbols being in the symbol gallery?

Re: Using a Symbol in a drawing format table

BenLoosli — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 21:02:24 GMT

I am actually working on a classified system so this is a new file like what I have on the other system. I have created an empty format file, added the symbol and a table, then tried to add the symbol to the table and only get the text, not the symbol. I have attached the symbol file and the new format.

Re: Using a Symbol in a drawing format table

Kevin — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 21:08:02 GMT

I've gotten the simple format to work by removing the .SYM extension, the full path doesn't seem to work or at least I haven't gotten it to.

Re: Using a Symbol in a drawing format table

James62 — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 15:41:09 GMT

Ahh well, it's always some little thing.

I'm just glad we have been able to answer this question. Even though I knew the answer before, I couldn't recall what exactly was it until now