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[JMFx]

I have about ten years of experience from Solidworks. I started to used Creo Parametric about two weeks ago. Our company will buy own licence next January. I have the question for Creo and how I'm used to doing things in Solidworks. 

I think we dont need Wildchill because all Creo files is for customers. Our customers moves the files to own Wildchill. I think we start to use files from the hard disk or cloudy space (Sharepoint or Google Drive).

Is there a possibilty to create document numbers without checking next number from Excel? We have the add on for Solidworks which gives a next document number by automatic without checking from Excel.

[BenLoosli]

Without Windchill, creating a new part will auto-generate a new number but it will be prt0001.prt, or something like that. If the system finds a number it generated in your current working directory, the number will increment.