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mastachef1-Visitor
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April 5, 2018
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Export Windchill files and save locally

  • April 5, 2018
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Greetings.

 

Currently, my task is to research various capabilities with Windchill. One question that has presented itself is the ability to save documents locally (outside of Windchill). For example, a book file that contains references to other files and images.

 

- How does one save this file and all its dependencies as XML and save it locally (Windows 7)?

Thank you

Best answer by plutsky

The easiest way to save dynamic documents locally is to use the Arbortext Browser menu File->Export Compound Document.

This will fix up the XML links to point to the locally downloaded content.

 

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BenLoosli23-Emerald III
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April 5, 2018

I would guess that your native system for authoring documents has an export/save as function, just use that.

 

For use with PTC Creo (CAD software) we pull the files from the Windchill common folders to a local working workspace and we can export directly from the workspace or we can load the files into Creo and do a save as to a local disk. I would guess a similar scenario would exist for other products stored in Windchill.

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mastachef1-VisitorAuthor
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April 9, 2018

Thank you for your response.

 

We do not use PTC Creo. 

 

After connecting to Windchill using Editor 7.0, I did find a menu option (Tools -> Save Application). After performing this action, it seems as though it does pull the document and all dependencies to a local location. However, I am trying to resolve some of the issues regarding images. The messages received reflect that it can't find various graphics file(s)

 

<Level>ERROR</Level>

<Message location="(27150,1,38)" publicId="EPIC">Can't find graphics file: copying "file=<image number>.jpg" to "<user created location>portable_doc\portable_doc_files/file_<image number>.jpg,poid"
(Saxparse for <document name>).</Message>

 

Any suggestion on how to troubleshoot and resolve this issue?

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ShirishMorkhade_23875516-Pearl
16-Pearl
April 10, 2018

Hi @mastachef,

In your comment you mentioned that "ability to save documents locally". So before I comment on this, I would like to know whether you are talking about wt.doc.WTDocument (Documents) or wt.epm.EPMDocument (CAD/EPM Documents)?

 

Regards,

Shirish

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BenLoosli23-Emerald III
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April 10, 2018

The OP is using ArborText, so not sure how those are classified by Windchill. I would guess they are just wt.doc.WtDocuments (documents).

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