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GrahamV12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
November 19, 2021
Question

Pro/Program Fails Following 'Publish to CAD'

  • November 19, 2021
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Hi, 

 

We'd like to take advantage of the Windchill 'Publish to CAD' functionality, which allows a CAD structure to be driven from a WTPart structure, however we're hitting a regular problem where a part with dependencies is removed from a structure. Steps to recreate the problem...

 

1) Create a Creo assembly of 2 sub components, with the 2nd component assembled to the 1st...

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2) Create WTParts for all components, and build the WTPart structure...

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3) Remove the 1st component from the WTPart structure, and use 'Publish to CAD' or 'Compare to CAD Structure' to drive the changes into the CAD structure...

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4) Open the updated CAD structure in Creo, the changes are correctly shown...

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Everything works correctly until this point, however after accepting the changes, Creo reports an error and rolls back the changes...

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It seems Creo is unable to deal with a component being removed where it has a dependency (assembly constraint, sketch, datum, xsec etc.), this would seem like an obvious situation that would be dealt with by just leaving the dependency as a failed feature, so hopefully this is just a config setting that's causing it to error. Running Creo 5.0.3.0, unfortunately this outside the extended supported period so we have been unable to get any PTC suggestions.

 

Is anyone able to recreate this issue (successfully or not)?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

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VladimirN24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
November 19, 2021

Here are several articles that match this error:

 

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    GrahamV12-AmethystAuthor
    12-Amethyst
    November 25, 2021

    Hi Vladimir, 

     

    Thanks for the links, I'd not seen those ones before, unfortunately none of them help in this case, as the Pro/Program is modified automatically by Windchill/Creo (I cannot even see the program it is trying to run, because the changes are rolled back before I am able to the Pro/Program menu).

     

    This issue is very repeatable on our system, is anyone able to try the above steps to confirm it's not unique to our configuration?

     

    Thanks

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    VladimirN24-Ruby III
    24-Ruby III
    November 25, 2021

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