Creating Drawing Template/format in Creo

Drawing template is very important, as it is not convenient to enter all data manually, every time we create 2D Drawing for our model. Creo gives a separate option named 'Format' to create drawing formats/templates. There are many ways you can create format. Most tutorials shows, use of table to create borderlines in format. But, table make it very difficult to select and edit annotations and even other table. But, there's another way to create format, using sketch and It won't annoy you. Here is simple tutorial created by me,

While creating drawings, there are many things, we have to write manually. Like, drawing date, version no., revision no., scale, drawing name, and many other. But, in creo, we can get this automatically in our drawing.

You can create your custom templates as per your requirement and use "Text Parameters" to get all this things automatically. To, create a custom template, select "Format" option in new file window. You can draw your boundary lines. For title block, put a table of required size in the sheet. You can merge cells, adjust height and width and so on.

Now, to get all the text automatically, just put parameter in cell. For example, if you want to get the date automatically in title block, Just, double click the cell, you want to put value in. Then type,
" &todays_date", without quotes.

Whenever you use this format in drawing, date value will automatically get filled in that cell. There are many parameters you can use in your format.

1. &todays_date               Adds the date when format is applied.
2. &model_name             Adds the model used for the drawing.
3. &dwg_name                Adds the name of the drawing.
4. &scale                          Adds scale of drawing shown at bottom of window.
5. &type                           Adds the drawing model type.
6. &format                       Adds the format size.
7. &linear_tol_0_0          Shows default value set by config.pro option 
8.   through
9. &linear_tol_0_000000
10. &angular_tol_0_0        Shows default value set by config.pro option through
11. &angular_tol_0_000000
12. &current_sheet             Adds the sheet number of the current sheet.
13. &total_sheets               Adds the total number of sheets on drawing

You can type "Sheet &current_sheet of &total_sheets", so it will automatically assign the appropriate values and will create a sentence like "Sheet 2 of  5"

There are may such parameters. I will update the list, as soon as I get a new parameter. Feel free, to ask in comment. I will try to help you. I will also add more tips here, so keep visiting.