Re: Ghost drawing formats

No change (as far as I know).  We're on Windchill 12.1 and Creo 8.

I think we have a solution but let me explain what I know of the issue. When you create a new drawing, Creo pulls the format which at this time is not likely in your workspace from the location specified in your pro_format_dir in your config.pro (or more preferred for this entry, config.sup). If you are like most places, that location is a shared folder common to all users on some Windows drive.  Since the file does not originate from Windchill commonspace, it treats the file as new when you save the drawing. With template drawings, since you are copying the drawing to make a new one, you see the ghost as it cannot find the format. 

A solution that seems to solve our similar program of format appearing as new is to map a Commonspace location for the pro_format_dir. This will require all users to use the same alias for Windchill in your server manager but this can be done by creating connection via a script.

pro_format_dir wtpub://PDMLink/Libraries/Engineering CAD Resources/Formats

By not pulling from a folder outside of Windchill, this should download the format when it needs to be picked in drawing creation and downloads it to the workspace. Another solution might be to add a search path in the same manner to find the formats if creating from a drawing template. Give this a shot.