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Dana - 9/21/2021 11:07:54 AM

note fields

Is there any documentation for how to use the various fields in a note? The help file isn't much use.

Some are easy, some can be figured out, and some are incomprehensible. For example, |012 is "file name without extension", and that works fine. Others are noted "(delimiter)", and you seem to need to use them twice, e.g. "file last saved at |109|109", but they only work if there's another field after it, what if you don't need any further fields?

Then there are "file properties", "part properties" and "entity part properties""entity file properties"... what are the "entity" ones? If I try to use "entity part last saved at" (|411) it just gives me #ERR.

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Advanced member	jmccullough@kubotek3d.com - 9/23/2021 1:29:44 PM RE:note fields Good question Dana. We'll take a look. At a minimum we can add additional explanation to the Field Notes topic in Help. Hopefully someone else here can comment from experience using these codes. John Wright McCullough GM Marketing, Kubotek3D Reply \| Quote \| Subscribe to post

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wkrol@kubotek3d.com - 9/24/2021 1:16:17 PM

RE:note fields

Dana,

Tale a look at in \KeyCreatorPro.2021.SP2\Lang\English at the BOMAutolabel.dat
Create a Solid Block.
GENERIC EDIT solid & add Standard Props (see image)
Use Tools> BOM and Table> Label Reference Select the soli; arrow pos & label location.

Hope this helps.
-Wes

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Soli - 9/25/2021 8:54:38 AM

RE:note fields

I'm curently work with standart parameters.

First I have to fill the Standart properties and the User properties for each solid entity.

I run a macro to fill those parameters and other macro if I need to edit them.

After, I run a macro GetEntity to get the solid entity ID

If I want to create a note in the drawing I use this:

Where 20 after first Delimiter |402 |403 |404 ... is solid entity ID

For User properties the Delimiter is |413 followed by solid entity ID 20, a comma, name of User property and again |413

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Part Number = |40220|402

Part Description = |40320|403

Part Created By = |40420|404

Part Keywords = |40520|405

Part Last Saved By = |40620|406

Part Revision = |40720|407

Part Material = |40820|408

Part Vendor = |40920|409

Part Created Date = |41020|410

Part Last Saved = |41120|411

Part Comment = |41220|412

TREATMENT = |41320,T TREAT|413

COATING = |41320,COAT|413

WEIGHT = |41320,WEIGHT|413

===================================

The problem is, if I change the solid Properties, this note doesn't update.

The solution is, to create a note with this macro:

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clear hEnt

HENTITY hEnt

int nSelFlag = 0

Int nSelParent = 1

Int bSelRefEnts = 0

Int bAccept = 1

bActiveInstFlag = 1

MASKENTITY 32

GetEnt "Select the component to get Label", hEnt, , nSelFlag, nSelParent, bSelRefEnts, , bAccept, bActiveInstFlag

if (@key == -3)

goto end

MASKCLEAR

MASKMAINTAIN 0

clear nEntID

Int nEntID

GetIDFromEnt hEnt , nEntID

CLEAR adTextAtt

DOUBLE adTextAtt[0]

ARRAY adTextAtt[13] = { 0, 5, 0.85, 0.6, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0}

CLEAR anEntAtt

INT anEntAtt[0]

ARRAY anEntAtt[8] = { 3, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0x0 }

clear $name

string $name

sprint $name , "NAME = \|403%d\|403" , nEntID

clear $quantity

string $quantity

// comment : |413 is the field for User Properties and QT'Y is the name of User property

sprint $quantity , "QUANTITY = \|413%d,QT'Y\|413" , nEntID

clear $material

string $material

sprint $material , "MATERIAL = \|408%d\|408" , nEntID

clear $treatment

string $treatment

sprint $treatment , "T TREAT = \|413%d,T TREAT\|413" , nEntID

clear $coating

string $coating

sprint $coating , "COATING = \|413%d,COAT\|413" , nEntID

clear $weight

string $weight

sprint $weight , "WEIGHT = \|413%d,WEIGHT\|413 KG" , nEntID

clear $note

string $note

sprint $note , "%s\n%s\n%s\n%s\n%s\n%s", $name ,$quantity , $material , $treatment , $coating , $weight

clear position

DOUBLE position[3]

type_pos=0

GETPOS "Select the Note Position", type_pos, position

if (@key == -3)

exit

x=position[0]

y=position[1]

z=position[2]

worldtocplane x, y, z

NOTE $note , x , y , 0 , , , , 0, "Smooth", adTextAtt, anEntAtt

NoteState

CLEAR adTextAtt

DOUBLE adTextAtt[0]

ARRAY adTextAtt[13] = { 0, 8, 0.85, 0.6, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0}

CLEAR anEntAtt

INT anEntAtt[0]

ARRAY anEntAtt[8] = { 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0x0 }

clear $component_number

string $component_number

// comment : |100 is the field for file number

sprint $component_number ,"\|100-\|402%d\|402" , nEntID

NOTE $component_number,x-10 , y+36 ,0 , , , , 0, "Smooth", adTextAtt, anEntAtt

NoteState

:end

MASKCLEAR

MASKMAINTAIN 0

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Solomon Steinberg,
Israel

DELL OPTIPLEX 7050
NVIDIA QUADRO P2000
KEYCREATOR 13.5
KEYCREATOR 2021 SP2

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Dana - 10/4/2021 4:05:48 PM

RE:note fields

Thanks Sol, that helps. One I still can't figure out is "macro numeric expression". Seems |0102+2|010 should give me 4, but it doesn't work.

I do wish you could apply user properties to layouts. I'd like to be able to set the revision of a layout (not the part, as I have multiple layouts in a part) and revision description for each layout. I can apply those properties to the solid depicted in the layout, but that's more kludgy.

To make the note update, use detail-notes-update fields or "callfunc 0xA1CA" in a macro.

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Soli - 10/5/2021 12:30:25 PM

RE:note fields

Dana,

I didn't find any kxl command to edit the Layout name or Layout description.
I need this, too.

Do you know how to get the actual date?
I found |004 System Time delimiter and the parameters:
Detail>Note>Keyin |004%A %d-%m-%Y|004 creates a note : Tuesday 05-10-2021
Everything is written in documentation.

But I need to create a kxl string contains the date.

I tried:
===========================

clear $date

string $date

sprint $date , "%s" , "\|004%A %d-%m-%Y\|004"
pause "%s" , $date

note $date , 0 , 0 , 0
notestate
=========================
The $date contains \|004%A %d-%m-%Y\|004
But, the created note is Tuesday 05-10-2021.

I need the string contains the actual date to use it for other purposes.

Can you or Kubotek help?
Thanks

Solomon Steinberg,
Israel

DELL OPTIPLEX 7050
NVIDIA QUADRO P2000
KEYCREATOR 13.5
KEYCREATOR 2021 SP2

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Advanced member	Dana - 10/6/2021 3:55:12 PM RE:note fields kludgy but it works: =========================== clear $datestr, $daystr string $datestr string $daystr exec "date /T > c:\\temp\\test.txt" set devin, "c:\\temp\\test.txt" input "%s %s", $daystr, $datestr close devout exec "del c:\\temp\\test.txt" pause "%s", $datestr ========================= Reply \| Quote \| Subscribe to post

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Soli - 10/7/2021 11:25:51 AM

RE:note fields

Dana,

Excellent idea with date /T.
I made a few changes because the command exec "date /T > c:\\temp\\test.txt" doesn't work.
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Set Devout, "d:\\GET_DATE.bat"

print "date /T >d:\\DATE.txt"

CLOSE DEVOUT

exec "d:\\GET_DATE.bat"

SET DEVIN , "d:\\DATE.txt"

clear $date

string $date

INPUT "%s " , $date

CLOSE DEVIN

pause "%s" , $date
====================================

Thank you, Dana

Solomon Steinberg,
Israel

DELL OPTIPLEX 7050
NVIDIA QUADRO P2000
KEYCREATOR 13.5
KEYCREATOR 2021 SP2

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Advanced member	Dana - 10/8/2021 8:30:22 AM RE:note fields Yes, the c:\temp folder needs to exist for it to work. Why the batch file, did it not work without it? Though sometimes KC is funny about running internal DOS commands like date. In that case you can try: exec "cmd /c date /T > c:\\temp\\test.txt" Reply \| Quote \| Subscribe to post

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Dana - 10/15/2021 7:13:39 AM

RE:note fields

Soli wrote: Dana,

I didn't find any kxl command to edit the Layout name or Layout description.
I need this, too.

I used Autoit, a windows scripting language, to change the layout name and do other things not possible with KXL. This is a snippet of the Autoit code, in this case changing the layout name to the contents of $layname, which is an Autoit variable:

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        WinActivate("KeyCreator")
       WinWaitActive("KeyCreator")
       Send("{ESC}{ESC}{ESC}{ESC}{F3}{F6}{F1}") ; classic menu detail, layout, control
       WinWait("Drawing Layout Control")
       Sleep(250)
       ControlClick("Drawing Layout Control", "", 1604)
       WinWaitActive("Enter new name for layout")
       ControlSetText("Enter new name for layout", "", 1037, $layname)
       ControlClick("Drawing Layout Control", "", 1)
       WinWaitClose("Enter new name for layout")
       WinWaitClose("Drawing Layout Control")
        Send("{ESC}{ESC}{ESC}{ESC}{ALT}DNP") ; Detail-Note-Update fields
       Sleep(250)
       Send("{ESC}{F6}{F3}{F5}") ; escape to root and autoscale
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