How to display the name of the model

Suppose you need to insert the name property of a model shown on a drawing into the drawing itself (for example inside the title block), preceded by "Part Number:" and to remind designers to set this property. You will have to create a text string like the following — see Texts to learn how to create a text entity and position it as you like:

 

Part Number: $MM{COMPNAME="Remember to set name property in the model"}

 

where:

So, the symbolic expression to be used in a drawing to display the value of a property associated to the overall model is $MM. See "Available Symbolic Expression Identifiers" for more information.

Set the default value

If no value is specified in the string defining the model name ($MM{COMPNAME=""}), a default string will be displayed: <part number>.
As the size of such string may exceed the space assigned to the corresponding field, it is strongly recommended that you set a default value by assigning the property a blank character:

$MM{COMPNAME=" "}

This way, no string will be displayed and the space occupied will be the same as the one of a blank character.