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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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    raghavendra.dat1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    May 3, 2012

    Hi,


    In WC10, most of the RBINFO files are java files. So, old ResourceBuild will not work for them.


    Instead you can compile them the way normal java files are compiled from windchill shell which will copy the class file to respective folder in codebase.


    go to source directory in windchill shell where resource java file is available then run below command:


    javac -d <windchill_codebase_path> XXXXXXXXResource.java



    Regards,


    Raghavendra

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    jthornton10-Marble
    10-Marble
    May 3, 2012

    I understood 10.1 was planned to have a direct PDF download action OOTB. We are following up with Madhavi from PTC for an update now that 10.1 is available

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    jtjohnson5-Regular Member
    5-Regular Member
    May 3, 2012
    Hello my old friend Jeff Thornton!!



    Hope you and family are well.



    This is available with 10.1, I just tested it.



    Regards,

    Jeff


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    SteveVinyard1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    May 3, 2012
    Wow, this is great news. So I assume IF the drawing has been published as a PDF then you can simply right click and say download PDF right?

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    Steve Vinyard
    Application Engineer
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    ddemay1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    May 3, 2012
    Yes or does this imply a conversion capability automatically?


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    jtjohnson5-Regular Member
    5-Regular Member
    May 3, 2012
    It does not convert on the fly. The new function allows you to RMB on
    the representation in the reps table (not the thumbnail), and download
    the rep. It creates a zip or a rar (your choice) of the rep and the
    thumbnail.



    Jeff


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    SteveVinyard1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    May 3, 2012
    This has been in Windchill for years right?? Or is it different now??

    If you publish your drawings as a PDF you can simply download the rep .zip and then extract it out of that.


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    Steve Vinyard
    Application Engineer
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    jthornton10-Marble
    10-Marble
    May 3, 2012

    10.1 provides a


    See also an enhancement that was just created to make this direct download accessing from search results


    http://communities.ptc.com/ideas/1185

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    SteveVinyard1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    May 3, 2012
    That's great. Almost there. We just need this option directly from the RMB ANYWHERE on a drawing 🙂 Glad an enhancement is out there. My users certainly don't want to have to dig just to get a PDF out.

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    Steve Vinyard
    Application Engineer
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    davehaigh13-Aquamarine
    13-Aquamarine
    June 14, 2012
    In reference to this conversation, is it possible to attach that pdf to an email in a workflow? Anyone done this?
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