Unsupported version of Creo with PDM-Link 10.2

[WayneSchrock]

Is anyone using an Unsupported version of Creo with PDM-Link 10.2 ? If so are there any issues?

We are planning on upgrading to Windchill 12 soon, however there are new manufacturing techniques in Creo 8.0 and I would like to be able to take advantage of them now (just for our CNC programmers). Would prefer if they could check-in and out files with PDM-Link, instead of having to export files and keep Creo 8.0 files on local disk.

[avillanueva]

They typically do not let you connect unsupported versions. You will likely get an error trying to register the server connection. Try it but I would opt for doing those MFG techniques offline if you could. If they files do not need to go back to PDMLink, you could use 8.0 just for that piece.  

[Chris3 · Accepted solution]

I have registered and checked in and out parts with unsupported versions of Creo Parametric before. Its one of those things that most companies will not attempt in a production environment because it has not been supported and opens you up for a lot of headaches if something goes wrong.

Bear in mind if you are checking things back in Creo 8 then everyone else will need to be using Creo 8 to open up the checked in files. Your CAD workers will need to be on Creo 8 as well to publish the visualizations. It may work for most things but somewhere you will likely find a problem. Most likely it will be with newer functionality like multibody. Not worth risking IMO.