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1-Visitor
September 16, 2019
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Check In Without Creo from diskspace

  • September 16, 2019
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Hi

 

I have a part file on local disk. I can open the same in Creo. Activate Wind chill Server within Creo and can check in the opened part (present into local disk) to windchill.

 

My query is how to do check in of part from local disk from windchill browser without opening Creo. Can I checkin part file from disk space to windchill if Creo is not installed on my machine?

Best answer by STEVEG

Technically, you can rename the file name of any file to any other file name outside PDMLink.  Then import that in.

You can also import a .prt, .asm or .drw as a WTDocument.  In fact there are a few users where I am at that have done that for project files.  It does not happen very often though and I do not know the reason.

 

I do not see the advantage of renaming a text file (.txt) to a part model file name.  If there is someone that is not familiar with your procedures, then what happens when they try to open the file with Creo?  I am not saying there isn't one.  Just that I do not see it.

 

If the file you are trying to check in is a document type then import at a WTDocument.

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1-Visitor
September 16, 2019

To conclude, I am looking for the functionalities (Check In, Checkout and Edit,Replace Content) similar to documents  for CAD data. I dont have CAD i.e. Creo installed on my system, but physical CAD files are present with me. Can I do check in of the same through web browser of Windchill?

21-Topaz I
September 16, 2019

You cannot check Creo files in to PDMLink as EPMDocuments without Creo.  There is no option for that.

1-Visitor
September 16, 2019
But I have seen some scenario for this in 2011 or so. I know it's weired , but use case was observed.

One text file needed to be checked in. I k know it can be updated as document. But team used to rename it as .prt from .txt.

This way we can say that it was prt which cannot be opened into Creo, but that text file renamed as .prt was present into windchill. How it could have been possible is my curiosity.