topic Re: Why am I asked to check things out just to open a drawing? in Windchill https://community.ptc.com/t5/Windchill/Why-am-I-asked-to-check-things-out-just-to-open-a-drawing/m-p/255771#M30353 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Oftentimes the notice about objects getting marked as modified are tied to config.pro settings. The following article provides a list of config.pro settings that can be manipulated to prevent unwanted modifications: <A href="https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS32596" title="https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS32596">https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS32596</A></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:30:22 GMT LoriSood 2017-03-20T19:30:22Z Why am I asked to check things out just to open a drawing? https://community.ptc.com/t5/Windchill/Why-am-I-asked-to-check-things-out-just-to-open-a-drawing/m-p/255768#M30350 I really need help with this. It bugs me. When I go to open certain things (drawings, assemblies, whatever) I am given the pop up window that says "This object is read only as it is not checked out" and gives me a list of things to check out. I can find no rhyme or reason Wed, 02 May 2018 11:06:21 GMT https://community.ptc.com/t5/Windchill/Why-am-I-asked-to-check-things-out-just-to-open-a-drawing/m-p/255768#M30350 smandel 2018-05-02T11:06:21Z Re: Why am I asked to check things out just to open a drawing? https://community.ptc.com/t5/Windchill/Why-am-I-asked-to-check-things-out-just-to-open-a-drawing/m-p/255769#M30351 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>One common thing that leads to this:</P><P>- check out and change a drawing, but don't check out related model(s)</P><P>- change something in the drawing that in fact get saved in the model</P><P>- select to Continue for the model</P><P>- check in the drawing</P><P>- next retrieval of the drawing (possibly by someone else at a later time), message log says "drawing is more recent than the model"</P><P></P><P>Have to check out the model to apply the pending changes stored in the drawing.&nbsp; These are "time bombs" in the system.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:39:26 GMT https://community.ptc.com/t5/Windchill/Why-am-I-asked-to-check-things-out-just-to-open-a-drawing/m-p/255769#M30351 MikeLockwood 2017-03-17T15:39:26Z Re: Why am I asked to check things out just to open a drawing? https://community.ptc.com/t5/Windchill/Why-am-I-asked-to-check-things-out-just-to-open-a-drawing/m-p/255770#M30352 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Choose "continue", then open the assembly and choose "save".&nbsp; Look in your workspace and see what actually got saved.&nbsp; Since it's an assembly, I would guess one of the models was changed but the assembly wasn't regenerated and save afterwards.&nbsp; The next time the assembly is opened it sees it needs to update but to do so requires being checked out.&nbsp; Sometimes relations, Pro/Program, and automatic mass properties calculations can also cause changes each time an object is opened.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:45:29 GMT https://community.ptc.com/t5/Windchill/Why-am-I-asked-to-check-things-out-just-to-open-a-drawing/m-p/255770#M30352 TomU 2017-03-17T15:45:29Z Re: Why am I asked to check things out just to open a drawing? https://community.ptc.com/t5/Windchill/Why-am-I-asked-to-check-things-out-just-to-open-a-drawing/m-p/255771#M30353 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Oftentimes the notice about objects getting marked as modified are tied to config.pro settings. The following article provides a list of config.pro settings that can be manipulated to prevent unwanted modifications: <A href="https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS32596" title="https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS32596">https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS32596</A></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:30:22 GMT https://community.ptc.com/t5/Windchill/Why-am-I-asked-to-check-things-out-just-to-open-a-drawing/m-p/255771#M30353 LoriSood 2017-03-20T19:30:22Z Re: Why am I asked to check things out just to open a drawing? https://community.ptc.com/t5/Windchill/Why-am-I-asked-to-check-things-out-just-to-open-a-drawing/m-p/255772#M30354 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thank you all for your help. It's greatly appreciated. I think I have a better understanding and have stopped a good deal of the pop ups.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:50:02 GMT https://community.ptc.com/t5/Windchill/Why-am-I-asked-to-check-things-out-just-to-open-a-drawing/m-p/255772#M30354 smandel 2017-03-21T13:50:02Z