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STEVEG21-Topaz I
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June 7, 2017
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DraftSight in Windchill

  • June 7, 2017
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We have recently purchased a company.  They are running Wildfire 5 but also DraftSight.

We plan to import all their data into our PDMLink system.  However, I wanted to find out if anyone has imported DraftSight files into their system.  If so what type did you import them in as.  The reason I ask what type is because there is no Windchill Integration for DraftSight files as far as I can see.

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TomU23-Emerald IV
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June 7, 2017

We use DraftSight was well, but we generally do not store the files in Windchill.  The few times we have we've stored them as WT Documents using the DWG format.  There is a way to configure a dummy publisher in Windchill so that these will show up correctly with thumbnails and also open in Creo View.  See CS36856.

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STEVEG21-Topaz IAuthor
21-Topaz I
June 8, 2017

We have used WTDocuments for our old AutoCAD drawings and it's worked just fine.

Did you convert the file to DWG or are they native?  I ask this because I assume DraftSight files have a different file extension?

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TomU23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
June 8, 2017

No conversion required.  DraftSight's default file extension is DWG.

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