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BHurler10-Marble
10-Marble
April 28, 2026
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Collect all Drawings related to assembly and add to clipboard?

  • April 28, 2026
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I have a great process for mass-printing or creating PDF’s from Creo View.  One of the key steps is collecting all the objects in Windchill and adding them to the clipboard.

 

Does anyone know a way I can select an assembly, collect all the drawings of the assembly components and add them to the clipboard?  Anywhere I can get to that has the collection rules doesn’t seem to have Copy and anywhere that has Copy doesn’t seem to have a collector.

 

Thanks in advance!

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Allyssa4-Participant
4-Participant
April 28, 2026

I recently have been using workspaces for this. 
 

I can then use the collector to add what I need and any of the supplemental elements used (3D models, WT parts, etc). But in my workspace I can filter, select, and copy just what is needed. 

avillanueva
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avillanueva23-Emerald I
23-Emerald I
April 28, 2026

To clarify, you are looking to recurse from an assembly down to all its components and pull their drawings or is it just drawings related to selected assembly?

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BHurler10-MarbleAuthor
10-Marble
April 28, 2026

Great question.  I am looking to get the drawings related to all the components of the assembly including the assembly itself.  I then want to add them to the clipboard so I can easily open them in Creo View.

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BryanK16-Pearl
16-Pearl
April 28, 2026

there are a few ways to do this off the top off the top of my head. 

  1. use the advanced picker and add the assembly to a workspace, then filter on drawings and copy to clipboard.
  2. create a baseline and use the advanced picker in a similar method. 
  3. create a package (but that's probably overkill)
    avillanueva
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    avillanueva23-Emerald I
    23-Emerald I
    April 30, 2026

    ​@BryanK has best options other than customization. The problem is a recusive query, one that querybuilder does not support. Otherwise that could be used in combination with a search result. If this is occational task, I would opt for option 1. If you need something formal like proof of what was sent to a supplier, use option 3. 

    For this use case or sending data to suppliers often, we created a custom app in Windchill Navigate to handle this. It takes care of all the different use cases. We also publish PDFs upon release via WVS. This skips the step of having to use Creo view to print to PDF since they are already there. We can just download them.

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      BHurler10-MarbleAuthor
      10-Marble
      April 30, 2026

      ​@BryanK  & ​@avillanueva I tried option 1 before even posting here but I quickly noticed I could add individual items to the clipboard but once I multiselected, the option was gone from the RMB Menu.  Am I missing something?

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      BHurler10-MarbleAuthor
      10-Marble
      April 30, 2026

      ​@BryanK & ​@avillanueva I Tried Option 1 before even posting here; however, I noticed that I could only Copy from the RMB Menu when I selected a single object.  When multi-selecting, Copy was oddly missing.  Any tips on not picking objects and adding them one by one?

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      BryanK16-Pearl
      16-Pearl
      April 30, 2026

      hmm, ok. then a different method. 

      1. open the top level wtpart structure
      2. expand all levels required.
      3. show all (cad and drawings)
      4. Select all and copy.
      5. open clipboard and filter on prt / asm
        1. remove prt / asm
      6. you will be left with drawings

      if you are not using wtparts then a baseline is the way to go. 

       

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