Article - CS100514
How to iterate, check out or revise a non-latest version, revision or iteration of CAD data in Windchill PDMLink
Modified: 10-Jun-2026
Applies To
- Windchill PDMLink 9.1 to 13.0
- Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire 4.0 to Wildfire 5.0
- Creo Parametric 2.0 to 12.4
- SolidWorks
- UG NX
Description
- How to iterate or check out a non-latest or older version, revision, or iteration of a CAD Document
- How to create a new iteration of an object from an old iteration of the object (not using the current, latest iteration)
- How to revise a non-latest version or revision of CAD data in Windchill
- Attempting to revise a non-latest revision fails as there is a red strikethrough on the object or it is excluded. How to enable revise of the object
- How to enable the option to Revise for a specification of the state In Work
- Revise action is missing for non-latest revisions
- CAD file cannot be revised if Allow revise of non-latest revisions is set to No and non-latest iteration is checked out
- Unable to revise a CAD document with the following error:
Error message:Critical error: CAD Part - <CAD document file name and version> is not the latest version and cannot be revised. - Checkout of a non-latest iteration fails with error:
Error message:Operation failed because user did not have the necessary permission on the following objects to perform the operation - How to make a historical iteration of a CAD document become the latest iteration
- Update of a non-latest iteration fails with error:
Error message:Cannot update the Workspace <Workspace name>. It would cause the family with generic <filename> to become incompatible - Failed to revise a non-latest iteration of a non-latest revision with error:
Error message:Critical error: Critical error: CAD Part - ###.prt, <version> is not the latest iteration in this revision. A Revise can only be performed on the latest iteration of a revision - How to revise a drawing's non-latest version to latest revision
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