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HighTechHick8-Gravel
8-Gravel
November 13, 2017
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Automate re-creating workspace

  • November 13, 2017
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Hello,

Not a savy Windchill/Creo user here, just an IT guy trying to support it lol.

we have a desktop setup in one of our shop areas with a full install of Creo 3 tied to our Windchill 10.2 PDM - this is to allow these guys (welders) to pull up a full model before welding to check for any changes. 

We keep running into an issue of them not emptying their workspace and not having the latest data to work with.

 

Has anyone figured out a good way to do this automatically? pretty much just want to delete and recreate their workspace without any human interaction lol.

 

if worse comes to worse I'll use something like autohotkeys and use mouse clicks, but I'm thinking a script or maybe something builtin would be nicer.. 

 

thanks!

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BrianToussaint19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
November 14, 2017

If they are not making any changes to the models or needing the actual model for anything, I would look into using CREO View for them to interrogate the models.  Then there is no need for workspaces and you do not need the CREO license for them as you access the information straight from Windchill.  You also do not need a CREO compatible machine as you view lightweight files of the model.

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    HighTechHick8-GravelAuthor
    8-Gravel
    November 14, 2017

    We actually have that setup for the rest of the weld and shop areas.

    Now here is where my inexperience is going to shine a little bit.

    we have a "worker" publishing the visualizations for that. I guess I'm not confident that it actually keeps up with engineering.

    when we migrated to 10.2 from 9.1, I believe there were over 90k jobs lined up and it took a good 8 months to chew through those!

    I might need to sit down with Engineering and compare what is currently generated to what they have modeled. I do think this is a much better way to go.. I just opened a top level assembly on my laptop and it is nice a smooth rotating around and such. hmm.

    Just checked on said worker, and it's status is "Fails to Start".

     

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    TomU23-Emerald IV
    23-Emerald IV
    November 14, 2017

    When we migrated to 10.2 from 9.1, I believe there were over 90k jobs lined up and it took a good 8 months to chew through those!

    You might want to take another look at how your CAD workers are setup.  We run a single virtual machine configured for 16 concurrent Creo workers (plus a few other workers - STEP, thumbnail, etc.)  We also have all assemblies configured to publish as "extended positioning assemblies".  With all the workers running, our average processing time is one job per second (86,000/day.)  Granted, most days we only publish a few hundred files, but the capacity is really nice and it doesn't cost anymore than a single worker (as long as you have the server resources to support it and use a node locked license.)  Smiley Happy

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