Creo tries to check out objects when opening

[Aaronm87]

Does anyone know why Creo wants to check out random files when opening an assembly or drawing? It will try to check out parts like a nut, screw or some other assembly when just opening a drawing/parent assembly. What causes this?

[JohannesSchramm]

Hi Aaron,

this issue sounds familiar to me.

We observed that we had a relation in the models, which Creo wanted to check-out.

The relation updated a parameter with an attribute from Windchill when opening the model, even if it was only a component within an assembly.

I recommend to have a look at the relations in the models, which Creo wants to check-out.

Best regards

Johannes

[Aaronm87]

I looked at the relations, but I am not sure what I am looking for. Can you be more specific?

[tschweizer]

Are you sure, that the Parts the system will checkout, are completly regenerated. (Traffic Light green)

Thomas

[JohannesSchramm]

Hi,

on our case we had a relation defined in the parts, which Creo wanted to check-out.
It looked like this:

DESCRIPTION=PTC_COMMON_NAME

After these parts were renamed in Windchill PDMLink, as soon as the objects were loaded into a Creo session, Creo wanted to update the parameter DESCRIPTION because of this relation.
So the user was prompted to check-out.

BTW: Sorry for the late answer.

Regards
Johannes