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How to configure Additional File Types to be published for specific CAD Document types in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 23-Jan-2025   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 10.1 M010 to 12.1
  • Windchill PDMLink 10.1 M010 to 13.0
  • Creo View Adapters 2.0 to 11.0
  • Adapter for Creo Parametric
  • Adapter for CATIA V5 (Theorem CADverter)
  • Adapter for SolidWorks
  • Adapter for NX (formerly Unigraphics or UG-NX)
  • Adapter for Autodesk Inventor
  • Adapter for Creo Elements/Direct Drafting (formerly CoCreate Drafting)
  • Adapter for Creo Elements/Direct Modeling (formerly CoCreate Modeling)
  • Windchill Visualization Services (WVS)

Description

  • How to use conditional elements in WVS publish rules for representations with Additional File Types for specific CAD Documents content file types?
  • How to define publish rule based on the condition of container name?
  • Can the workers be set to only do step files on CAD Parts not for assemblies?
  • Can the workers be set for only Manual additional files (Step) creation but not during check-in?
  • Is it possible to convert Creo drawings to dxf and PDF format files in background in Creo View Adapters?
  • Drawing files (.DRW) to PDF conversion is working however, .DRW to .DXF conversion is not functioning properly while using Publish Rules.
  • How to generate stp files representation automatically for SOLIDWORKS?
  • How to generate DWG and PDF files automatically for Creo 2d drawing in Creo worker?
  • Is it possible to add STEP or STP files into visualization publication?
  • Additional files are being generated when creating representations
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