Article - CS152784
Creo View Adapters: at which releases is Additional File Types support added for the various CAD Applications?
Modified: 29-Aug-2025
Applies To
- Creo View Adapters 2.0 to 12.1
- Windchill PDMLink 10.1 to 13.1
- Windchill Visualization Services (WVS)
- Adapter for Creo Parametric
- Theorem CADverter for CATIA V5 (Adapter for CATIA V5)
- Adapter for NX (formerly Unigraphics)
- Adapter for Autodesk Inventor
- Adapter for SolidWorks (SWX)
- Adapter for Creo Elements/Direct Drafting (formerly CoCreate Drafting)
- Adapter for Creo Elements/Direct Modeling (formerly CoCreate Modeling)
Description
- PTC implemented WVS Publish Rules support for configuring Additional File Types requests via the CAD Worker to Windchill solutions 10.1 M010
- Refer to the Visualization Services Guide Using Publish Rules topic in the relevant Windchill Help Center for more details regarding this capability
- Support for each of the different CAD Applications is added separately in subsequent Creo View Adapters releases
- Note: WVS New Representation wizard support (Output Options pull-down menu on the Choose Structure step) was not implemented until Windchill 10.1 M020
- This article documents the minimum Creo View Adapters product releases required to support specific alternate file formats
- Where to find reference documents about the supported file types and extensions to be published as additional file types via the CAD Worker to Windchill PDMLink solutions
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