Creating a Design template using MQL

The Start Design Templates process is used to create design template for CAD connectors.

For more information about creating designs, see Connector app help.

The administrator customizes the Start Design Templates feature according to the organization's business requirements. If you use more than one CAD tool, you need to specify which tool the design should be associated with. Subject to access permissions, you can create templates for the supported CAD types, depending on the connector that is supported. In baseline behavior environment, you have to be assigned the Leader role to create templates in the Collaborative Space.

Below are the steps to create design template using MQL:

  1. Login to MQL as a Leader. For example: set context user user1 password user1 role "ctx::VPLMProjectLeader.Company Name.Default";
  2. You can use following format to create a template:

    add bus <TEMPLATE_OBJECT_TYPE> <TEMPLATE_OBJECT_NAME> <TEMPLATE_OBJECT_REVISION> policy < TEMPLATE_OBJECT_POLICY> vault <VAULT_NAME>;

    For example: add bus "CATPart Template" parttemp13 --- policy "Design TEAM Resource" vault "eService Production";

    • <TEMPLATE_OBJECT_TYPE> : Dnotes the object type based on the active tab when you start this procedure.
    • <TEMPLATE_OBJECT_NAME> : Denotes name for the template
    • <TEMPLATE_OBJECT_REVISION> : Denotes the revision level to assign to the CAD object when it is created from the template.
    • <VAULT_NAME> : Denotes the location where the template will be saved.
    • < TEMPLATE_OBJECT_POLICY> : Denotes the object policy type.
    Note: Design templates of any type do not have lifecycle operations supported (Promote, Demote operations are not allowed). They will always be in the In Work state.