Batch plotting from Windchill

[lholmberg]

Hi guys:

Looking for a way to save the Batch plot lists that are created in PDMLink so we can reuse them latter for work orders. Basically our production staff would like to be able to take thier drawing lists from workorders and be able to reuse and update them at a latter date. This would apparently save them allot of time no having to do searches for all the drawings they need. I thought maybe I could do something buy saving the product structure in Product view standard but it becomes usless the second you close Product view and I can't find anyway to edit/update the file afterwards.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[RonZabilski]

Logan,



Plot Service for Windchill (PSW) from Etrage LLC allows users to develop
lists of drawings for batch plotting or viewables creation and save those
lists for future use.



If you are interested, I can arrange a Web demonstration of PSW for you.





Best Regards,

Ron Zabilski

Director of Sales & Marketing

Etrage LLC

[rpassolt]

Logan,

Batch Plotwill be an option with Windchill 10, but Fishbowl Solutions also has solutions to address this and much morein 8.0, 9.X and 10. Feel free to check out our website for more information

http://www.fishbowlsolutions.com/PTCSolutions/FishbowlPTCAutomationandIntegrationSolutions/AutoandIntegSolu_webcopy

Best regards,

Rick Passolt

Fishbowl Solution

rpassolt@fishbowlsolutions.com

(952) 465-3418

[amedina]

That's so strange! I thought I met with PTC's marketing manager when we
were using PDMlink 8 and in that conversation over the phone, I clearly
delineated that we wanted the option to select an assembly and be able to
get its drawing along with the drawings of everything under it. She said it
was in the plan for PDMlink 9. I didn't even ask that there be some sort of
special format, or an order to the drawings or even security feature to it.
All I really wanted was to get those PDFs or what ever was attached. I
wrote a script in perl to get what I wanted. This is 4 to 5 years later and
PTC cannot do the same even when so many users need and want it.

don't know what to say

Alfonso

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Rick Passolt <
rpassolt@fishbowlsolutions.com> wrote:

> Logan,
>
> Batch Plot will be an option with Windchill 10, but Fishbowl Solutions also
> has solutions to address this and much more in 8.0, 9.X and 10. Feel free
> to check out our website for more information
>
>
>

[sdrzewiczewski]

From a Part's details page, not a cad part, but a WTPart, you can choose
Export and one of the options is to export all the cad documents as well.



I then wrote a little utility to take the representations and extract them,
they are stored in their own JAR files in the exported Jar or Zip file.
Unfortunately, I can't share the utility, but I can point people in the
direction that I used. It could probably be improved upon further from my
approach but it worked.



Steve D.

[rpassolt]

I could be wrong, but I think there are several use cases being discussed in this trail...getting PDF's, plotting drawings, getting native CAD files.

If you want PDF's associated to an EPM or CAD Doc that's one thing.

If you want to plot drawingsthen you have to consider all the printers, drivers, pen plotter etc.

If you want to get Native Pro/E files then you have to worry about relationships, renames and more...all of which the WGM really should be used to resolve.

If you want to pick a top level assembly and getting all associated drawings might get you many more drawings than you want...tooling, fixturing, etc.

And there are obvisously many approaches you can take to solve any of these...some thing to consider would be how robust do you need the code? what abouterror handling? user interface? what ifthe "job"fails? ...etc.

Best regards,

Rick Passolt

Fishbowl Solutions

rpassolt@fishbowlsolutions.com

(952) 465-3418