Displaying GD&T symbols and rich text in forms

You can configure any form to contain geometric dimensioning and tolerance symbols or rich text in forms. It is possible to include geometric dimensioning and tolerance symbols in any box of a form but, in practice, you would restrict them to fields intended for engineering data. For example, a box titled Work Instruction is be a good candidate for geometric dimensioning and tolerance symbols, while a box titled Quantity is not. To define fields that may contain geometric dimensioning and tolerance symbols, you add their names to the GDT_properties preference. Once a box is added to this preference, a user can add geometric dimensioning and tolerance symbols to the box in any instance of the form.

You can activate geometric dimensioning and tolerance symbols for any type of form, including master forms for a Teamcenter object. You can apply normal Access Manager rules to any form that contains geometric dimensioning and tolerance symbols.

Users may only edit or add geometric dimensioning and tolerance symbols or rich text in a box after clicking the edit button next to the relevant box. They may then enter symbols, control characters or font formatting from the buttons provided or the keyboard. When editing or additions are complete, the user saves changes and leaves edit mode. This feature is available in any application that allows viewing of forms, including Manufacturing Process Planner, Part Planner, and Multi-Structure Manager. Detailed usage information is given in the guides for the applications that support this feature.

You can print and view reports that are generated from forms that contain geometric dimensioning and tolerance symbols or rich text. You can generate forms in two formats:

• HTML Teamcenter generates a PLM XML file from the process structure, which is parsed, interpreted with XSL style sheets, and converted to HTML files.

• PDF Teamcenter generates a PLM XML file from the process structure, which is parsed, interpreted with XSL style sheets, and converted to Formatting Object (FO) files. The information must then be converted to PDF format by a third-party formatting tool.