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SteveVinyard1-Visitor
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May 11, 2010
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Drawings as PDF - Quick way to download them?

  • May 11, 2010
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I have my drawings being published as a PDF by my Pro/e CAD worker. This is fine but in the end my users really need to be able to quickly download or email the PDF. Currently the only way to get the PDF out is to do the following:
1- Go to Drawing Details Page
2- Select "Display Representations List"
3- Click Actions>Save Representation
4- Save Representation out as .zip file to desktop
5- Extract PDF from .zip file and email etc

WAY to much work...does anyone know of a more efficient way to do this?

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    keithschm1-Visitor
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    February 25, 2011

    Is there a good intro to using Java with PDM link? I can figure out the code by the guides and the Internet, but just need to know how to get started.


    Thanks

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    avillanueva23-Emerald I
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    February 25, 2011
    Sorry, had to change your subject there. I would start with the
    Windchill Customizer's guide. What kind of queries are you looking to
    run? You can run them from the Oracle level (SQL), Report Manager
    (inside of Windchill) or Cognos. All do not require restart. You can
    run a query via Java Code either through InfoEngine tasks or direct API
    calls. Again, no restart needed. It depends on what information your are
    looking for, what format you want it in and what the purpose is.


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    mkraegeloh1-Visitor
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    February 25, 2011
    jython is also a nice way to play with the api, and if you download
    ext.tools from pdmteam.com you will find a bat file (wt.bat) and the
    ListAll class to query lots of windchill related data from the command line.

    hth, martin

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    keithschm1-Visitor
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    February 25, 2011

    What I am trying to do is understand this Drawings to PDF Script. I am having an issues where it is not pulling the latest version. So I was trying to follow the code and run some tests. If I could figure out how to run a piece of the code at a time, It could help me fiigure out my issue.

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    keithschm1-Visitor
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    March 10, 2011

    I am tring to print out the LC state on the download page.I am editing REPSAVEAS.jsp I keep getting errors on the property I am adding "epmdoc.getLifeCycleState();"


    Is that not correct? I have tried


    "epmdoc.getLifeCycleState() .getValue();


    "epmdoc.getLifeCycleState(); .toString();


    Thanks



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    cadjett1-Visitor
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    March 10, 2011

    Hello Keith,

    You should be able to use the same method that is used in the java class/code:

    Add this line:

    out.println("Life Cycle State: "+epmdoc.getLifeCycleState().toString());

    If that does not work, add these 2 lines instead:

    String LC_state = epmdoc.getLifeCycleState().toString();
    out.println("Life Cycle State: "+LC_state);

    Let me know ifeither works or not.

    If it still work work, I am not sure, but you might need to flush the existing jsp_class, by flushing tomcat cache
    (stop wc, stop tomcat, delete catalina folderin tomcat work folder &/or work folder, then restart tomcat & wc)

    L Jett
    cadjett@aol.com;datajett@aol.com (for quicker response)

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    keithschm1-Visitor
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    March 10, 2011
    Thanks that did the trick.

    I am still having an issue where the pop box shows released, but the drawing
    is not the released version when using the Action menu Download to PDF.

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    SteveVinyard1-VisitorAuthor
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    March 11, 2011
    I have found an easy way to download PDF Objects out of Windchill including all markups etc. If you have the Adobe Support CD installed on your client (PTC's adobe acrobat viewer which gives you GREAT pdf markup tools) then you simply click in the drawing and hit CTRL+SHIFT+S and it will allow you to save the PDF out.

    One of the really nice things I like about this is that it saves all of the default PDF bookmarks. The default bookmarks represent the views that are imported in from the drawing itself. You can easily cycle through those views and see the detail views, cross sections iirc.


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    Steve Vinyard
    Application Engineer
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    SteveVinyard1-VisitorAuthor
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    March 11, 2011
    Actually found that this works with Adobe Reader as well.

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    Steve Vinyard
    Application Engineer
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    mspencer1-Visitor
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    May 2, 2012

    Sorry to kick an old thread... but has someone implemented this in 10.0? It appears that in 10 the WVSactionsResource.rbinfo file is now .java, so the resource build command fails.


    Thanks, Max

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