PDF File Attachment through CAD worker

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January 16, 2024
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Hi Guys,

Can we use the CAD Worker to publish the .drw into PDF after that can we get into "Described by Documents / Reference Documents".

WT Part is already linked with CAD .prt + .drw.

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Regards,

Aj

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Best answer by avillanueva

There are a number of places you can put that published PDF. I have ours going as a secondary file for the representation. Works well with Thingworx Navigate. I've seen people put it was secondary content to the EPMDocument which makes it easy to download from the Content tab of the drawing. You are asking to create a WTDocument with the PDF and link to the WTPart. Yes possible.

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS348518?source=search

You should investigate the AfterEDRLoader and make you customizations there. I would caution from a Config Management perspective, you are setting up a data management nightmare. You now have possible two sources of truth, the CAD drawing and the WTDocument. Its possible that they become out of sync. My advice it to keep things packed to a single object.

avillanueva

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There are a number of places you can put that published PDF. I have ours going as a secondary file for the representation. Works well with Thingworx Navigate. I've seen people put it was secondary content to the EPMDocument which makes it easy to download from the Content tab of the drawing. You are asking to create a WTDocument with the PDF and link to the WTPart. Yes possible.

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS348518?source=search

You should investigate the AfterEDRLoader and make you customizations there. I would caution from a Config Management perspective, you are setting up a data management nightmare. You now have possible two sources of truth, the CAD drawing and the WTDocument. Its possible that they become out of sync. My advice it to keep things packed to a single object.