First of all, hats off to Steven G. Smith for sharing some of the secrets of Windchill with me regarding this topic. Apparently, Steven has a Windchill 9.1 Admin book out on the market. I'll have to buy a copy and suggest you all do the same.
Here is what I did to add my symbols to Windchill:
1 - Create a directory in Windchill named "Symbols"
2 - Copy the directory path (ie: wtpub://<your.server.com>/Library/Symbols)
3 - Launch Pro/E and create a new workspace
4 - Create a new empty drawing
5 - Add desired symbols to new empty drawing (all of them you want to add to Windchill)
6 - Pick "Format/Symbol Gallery/Symbol Dir" and browse to the directory in Windchill
7 - Pick "Write/Name/(pick name from list)" for each symbol (repeat for entire list)
8 - Open your workspace browser and refresh the window
9 - You should see the list of symbols you just wrote (saved)
10 - Tick the box for each symbol and then check them in
11 - Be sure to change the directory location as appropriate during the check-in process
Materials were added to Windchill in essentially the same manner. I did have a hiccup when I tested this, however. I found that Pro/E was not reading my paths correctly for some reason. When I entered it in config.pro from scratch, it worked perfectly (after restarting Pro).
Hope this helps!
In Reply to Lar Kerila:
Can anyone explain how to use Windchill to manage (more importantly, to store) data such as drawing symbols and material files? My users are asking me to place these files in Windchill, so they have easy access to retreieve them while using Pro/E. In theory, it seems very logical, since it can manage the revision history of these files (or lock them from being inadvertently modified), plus... it acts as a common server, especially nice, since we don't have one for our group.As it is now, every user has to have a copy of these files local on their machine.
I've had no luck in trying to find info on how to use Windchill to accomplish this. I thought it would be simple. Can anyone help?
