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avillanueva
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avillanueva23-Emerald I
23-Emerald I
December 16, 2021
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Managing MathCAD in Windchill

  • December 16, 2021
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I just started playing with WWGM and MathCAD. I am seeing if this can help us with our conversion to Prime. First question is why PTC decided to do this in the WWGM at all? Why not follow Creo with embedded browser? Second is more troubling and tech support did not have a good answer. I have thousands of files. The import to workspace does not appear to show MathCAD files.

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I've done this with Solidworks data and it worked great. Am I missing something? The answer I got back was that it doesn't support MathCAD and I would need to use a 3rd party loader or write my own.  This cannot be true can it? Anyone have experience on this before? 

Best answer by avillanueva

Following up to this. I noticed this article updated after we started this thread:

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS360606?source=search

What gives? I will see if I can follow up with presenter from the 2025 conference. 

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TomU23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
December 17, 2021

Just to be clear, you're saying the 'Import to Workspace' function doesn't allow import, but you can still manually open the files one at a time and save them to the workspace, right?  I wonder if you could do something in AutoIt to automate the process of pressing the 'Open' button and then pasting in the next file name.

 

What happens if you import them via the Creo workgroup manager after adding the Matchcad file extensions to the config.pro option "allow_import_file_extension"?  Do these Creo imported (and then checked in) objects still correctly open in Mathcad from the Windchill Workgroup Manager?  Normally files checked in this way will all be treated as Creo objects, and this may break the ability of Mathcad to access them correctly from it's own workgroup manager.  If it does work, I would definitely test it thoroughly before putting into production.  Maybe even dig into the database a bit and compare the records created with each method. (docType, etc.)  You would hate to import a bunch of files this way and then have it burn you later.

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TomU23-Emerald IV
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December 17, 2021

Based on the content of this KB article, I'm guessing option 2 above probably won't work.

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS47496

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