Adding Released Date in Creo Drawing

[jvadalia-2]

Version: Windchill 12.1

Use Case: Need same date in all released drawings whenever it gets released through promotion request.

Description:

As of now, we are getting last modified date in Creo drawing which is through Windchill attribute set in drawing template.

Problem here is, a drawing which is last modified on 5th October 2024 is getting released on 10th November 2024. After changing the state from In work to Released, it prints the date 05th October 2024 in creo drawing.

Ideally shopfloow guys will be confused with the date, as it is released today and date it is showing is older one.

So to overcome this, is there a way to show released date or Promotion request completion date in Creo Drawing through any attribute mapping. If yes, then what and where should i get that attribute and how can i push inside Creo file?

[Catalina]

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[jvadalia-2]

I have attached screenshot explaining it.

CAD Part last modified on 17th Oct but released on 20th Nov. Still it shows last modified.

This is because model is not changed.

But in our case we dont want model last modified date. We want model released date. Can we get it in Creo Parameters?

[BenLoosli]

You can probably do this with custom coding.

The release process is only done in Windchill and does not affect the Creo drawing. or change the last modified date of the file in Windchill.

In order to do what you want, the release process would need to open the file in Creo and then resave it to Windchill in order to get the date changed. However, this leads to the object being iterated so it is no longer A.1 but now A.2 and A.2 is not what the promotion request is releasing.

[jlecoz]

Hi,

Are you using Windchill 12.1.2.0 seems that this feature is now available.

[BenLoosli]

Won't that still require the drawing to be opened in Creo to put the released date information into the format and then saved. This will cause an iteration to the drawing. If done by an administrator account, the state will stay at released, but a normal user, in my system, cannot do anything to a released object.

[jlecoz]

There are two aspects.

• When you open the native CAD drawing connected to Windchill - Then the attributes will be updated in the drawing titleblock when opening the drawing in Creo.

• When you generate the viewable - If you trigger the viewable generation upon promotion request approval (which is OOTB) the CAD worker opens the drawing for conversion and should update the drawing title block. To be checked as I never applied this enhancement.

I think one other complexity is about what you are displaying in the titleblock, the CAD model attribute, or the drawing attribute, showing drawing attributes is easier as you don't have to manage visualization generation between the 3D model shown in the drawing and the CAD drawing itself.

[jvadalia-2]

Thanks @BenLoosli you are right user cannot do it. I will ask our administrator to update it.

[jvadalia-2]

Hello Everyone,

Can you just guide me from where i can append Windchill Attributes to CAD Document (How to push attributes in CAD Part automatically)?

Default like PTC_WM_Revision, PTC_WM_Modified_by, etc are coming automatic. Same i want Promotion date or Released Date.

Can anybody guide me on this?

[jlecoz]

I haven't implemented it seems something should be done within the Type manager on the CAD document attributes.

This feature should be documented in the Whats New part of the Windchill Help Center. I would take a look there.

[jvadalia-2 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

We have figured out how to do it.

We have to change preference.

PTC Tech support guide us on below things.

GO to Site> Utilities> Preference Managment > Work Group manager Client > Mapping Custom System Attributes and File Properties> Add one preference as shown in screenshot with value:

APPROVED_BY:promote.approvers,APPROVED_DATE:promote.approveDates,REVIEWED_BY:promote.reviewers,REVIEWED_DATE:promote.reviewDates

This will add Approved_Date, Reviewed_Date, Reviewed_by and Approved_by attributes into CAD Document and once promotion cylce is complete it will publish. After successfull publishing it will  auto populate the values.

As suggested by @jlecoz this is OOTB available from Windchill 12.1

Thank you everyone for help.

Regards,

Jignesh.

[jvadalia-2]

Yes we are using 12.1.2.8

Thanks for this update. This will help. I will check with our administrator then.