ProToolkit and Windchill

[bwilson-2]

HI all,

Does anyone know if it would be possible to use ProToolkit to read in a list of CAD models from Windchill and export them to a folder? I need to make this as simple as possible for my manufacturing customers. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Brian

[SteveVinyard]

So you are looking to have a very easy to use script that will run pro/e in the background, gather the objects on the list, and then export them into a timestamped folder right?

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Steve Vinyard
Application Engineer

[JohnMattson]

We're getting this error message when doing a search in Windchill



Server Exception: (com.infoengine.util.IEResource/..)
com.infoengine.au.NoSuchServiceException: No such service



We are using PDMLink strictly for Pro/E data management at this time, we
do not have InfoEngine (which is mentioned in the error). Doing a
search has not produced this error up until today.



Thanks, John

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[AnderasFromm]

We also get this error from time to time and i don't know why, but the solution was always to delete the tomcat cache (work directory) and restart tomcat and windchill.

[gwalker]

We get that error when the services start in the wrong order. In our case we start the tomcat service last to avoid this problem.

[jessh]

Gordon, which version of Windchill (and Tomcat) is this?

I ask as I think this startup ordering issue was fixed at some point.

[MikeFoster]

Hi Jesse,

We're on 9.1 M060 and this error is due to startup order and is very repeatable.

Startup order actually causes two different errors:

Error in Pricipal Administrator:
nullnull: [LDAP: error code 34 - The provided value "nullnull" could not be parsed as a valid distinguished name because the last non-space character was part of the attribute name 'nullnull']

Error in searches:
Server Exception: (com.infoengine.util.IEResource/..) com.infoengine.au.NoSuchServiceException: No Such service: .com.atk.ca..sv-apptest..Windchill

To correct this we specify the startup order for those services using the technique suggested in Microsoft's knowledge base article 193888 as follows:

Edit the registry to add DependOnService values to make services start in order:

Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ILINK_Apache
DependOnService > Modify > add WindchillDS to bottom of existing list

Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ILINK_Tomcat
Edit > New > Multi-String Value > DependOnService = ILINK_Apache

Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ILINK_Service
Edit > New > Multi-String Value > DependOnService = ILINK_Tomcat

Restart server

Regards,

Mike Foster
ATK

[jfelkins]

You can do this in JLink too. It is very easy. Are you interested in JLink?