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10-Marble
June 16, 2023
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cannot search for sheetmetal cad parts created in solidworks but can in creo and inventor

  • June 16, 2023
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I am using Windchill PDMLink Release 12.1 and Datecode with CPS 12.1.2.1

is there a way for windchill to distinguish between solidworks cad parts and cad sheetmetal parts? Inventor and Creo sheetmetal parts can be identify using the subcategory = sheetmetal but not solidworks. Creo and Inventor sheetmetal parts have unique icons but solidworks sheetmetal parts do not, they appear as regular cad parts. Bottom line, we cannot search for solidworks sheetmetal parts.

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avillanueva
23-Emerald I
avillanueva23-Emerald I
23-Emerald I
June 16, 2023

Either the WGM is limited by the Solidworks API or they failed to implement it. Short of something in the configuration that needs to be turned on ( I checked knowledge base), you could use an attribute and some templates within your CAD files to expose that to Windchill.  That might be a way to achieve what you need. The other option is customization that can read the Solidworks file looking for some indicator that its sheetmetal and updating the subcategory when its checked in. A listener would be something that can do this.

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