About Notes in Formats and Tables
When you place a parametric note in a format, the note in the format acquires the appropriate value when you use it in a drawing. For example, if you create the note &model_name in a format, the system displays the actual model name in the note.
For the system to update these parameters when you add the format to a drawing, you can include in parametric notes only the drawing labels listed in the topic titled System Parameters for Drawings (except &todays_date). You must include all user-defined model and drawing parameters in format table cells in the form of ¶m in order for the system to update them in a drawing. Format mode interprets the following types of parametric notes:
• Notes with symbol instances
• Notes with standard system symbols
• Notes with drawing labels
• Notes with a default tolerance
The following rules apply to including parameters as labels in format tables:
• The system correctly evaluates parametric labels that you include in a format table only if you create the drawing first, add the model, and then add the format. It does not evaluate the labels correctly if you create the drawing, add the format, and then add the model.
• When you add a format to a drawing with more than one model present, parametric notes can reference only the active drawing model.
• When you add the format to a drawing, the system parses any and all that are present of the standard parametric symbols that it supports and displays the correct values in the table. It does this for every sheet of the drawing on which you use the format, so that the drawing name, model name, or any other standard parameter that you used appears on every sheet that uses that format.