Hi,
We have a new installation of Creo and Windchill., and I am setting up the system before rolling it out to our users. I want to be able to use IFX in a multi-user collaborative environment where everyone uses the same setup, thus having the same options. I also want to store the data in Windchill..
I have configured IFX to use catalogs of the fasteners we want to use, and I have created the dat and prt files to accompany this. The dat files contain all the instances that we need, and also adds specific parameters to the files on creation of the prt instance. All of this works perfectly when in a stand alone environment on my PC. (Thanks to Oliver of B&W for his help on this)
The problem occurs when I try and enable the 'Windchill' options in the IFX options. I have uploaded the catalogs and data files to Windchill, and pointed the options to these folders:
When I start IFX, it creates the folder ‘PATH_ABS_WINDCHILL_DOWNLOAD’ and populates the sub-folders correctly with the catalog files and the .dat files. However, none of the .gif, or .prt are downloaded, and so IFX cannot find the prt seed file in order to create the fastener:
If I manually copy the seed prt files in to the download location, everything works fine. I conclude therefore that for some reason IFX is not downloading the whole contents of ifx_fastener_data from Windchill to the download location, only the dat files.
Questions:
1) Is the above the expected behaviour?
2) How do I get IFX and/or Windchill to use/find the correct seed part files?
3) What is the preferred way to distribute the settings to all users, and how do I stop users changing the settings (e.g. is there something similar to the config.sup that's used for the main settings)?
4) Should I forget about using IFX with Windchill and store the ifx_catalog and ifx_fastener_data folders on a network share? I can put all the instances in Windchill of course.
5) Are there any other tips?
Thanks in advance.
We are using Creo Parametric 10.0.4.0 and IFX release 10.0.4.0-rc.1
