Article - CS2549
Degree Symbol and Plus-Minus sign from a designated Creo Parameter are not displayed correctly on the Windchill PDMLink attributes
Modified: 22-May-2024
Applies To
- Windchill PDMLink 9.0 to 12.0
- Creo Parametric 1.0 to 10.0
- Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire to Wildfire 5.0
Description
- How to handle parameters/attributes where special characters are used. Eg. plus minus sign, degree sign. Parameters are displayed correct in Pro/ENGINEER, but not in Windchill
- Special characters are represented in tables in Pro/ENGINEER drawings, they are replaced by a square
- If Pro/Engineer string parameter uses a special symbol like "plus_minus" (Text Symbol in ProE or Alt+0177 in Word) the attribute PLUS_MINUS in PDMLink is given another value on the PDMLink details page other than what was specified in Pro/Engineer.
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