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MikeLockwood22-Sapphire I
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March 9, 2016
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Full text indexing / search - SolidWorks drawings

  • March 9, 2016
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I may have posted this earlier - don't remember.

We now have indexing in place (Solr - 10.2 M020), working perfectly for Creo Drawings.   Hoping to extend to SolidWorks drawings.

Tech support case C12917558 has been open for a bit.  In general tech support has been saying (not totally confidently) that indexing of SolidWorks drawings seems to be working on their end but no Solid Works drawings are retuned using keyword search for text on the drawings.

Looking for anyone who has experience with this.

thanks

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LoriSood23-Emerald I
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March 24, 2016

Hi Mike,

When you ran the wt.content.DataFormatUtil utility which mime types did you specify?

I passed this along to the TSE handling your case, but I thought I'd also mention it here. I found this suggestion in another similar TS case in order to help troubleshoot this kind of issue:

Enable the following verbosity and collect the log (MS/BGMS as per hosted Solr):


log4j.logger.com.ptc.search.solr.contentReader.contentExtraction.BinaryExtractor=TRACE

You can perform this activity on TEST environment. User can add suspected objects (DRW/PRT) which will go for indexing and we can collect the logs i.e. actual content being extracted.

In addition to the logs please send list of keywords which you are looking to be search against those object. For, example, we would be interested in a string like “Extracted Content=” in the collected log.

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MikeLockwood22-Sapphire IAuthor
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April 5, 2016

Today I received a definitive answer on Case C12917558 stating that SolidWorks drawings cannot be indexed by Solr.  Major, major disappointment.  I opened the case Jan 27 and got the answer Apr 5 - wow.

The answer does not seem to be based on any experimentation or consultation with R&D - or even on what would be good to provide to customers.

PTC or anyone: Is there any way to get SolidWorks drawings to index and allow full text search for drawing not content?

thanks

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TomU23-Emerald IV
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April 5, 2016

Mike,

Here are a few different articles you might want to review.  One of them provides a method to test the indexing on a particular file.  Since SOLR is unable to index compressed Creo drawings, I'm guessing it may be having the same issue with SolidWorks, but at least this should let you verify.  FWIW.

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