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How to iterate, check out or revise a non-latest version, revision or iteration of CAD data in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 19-May-2025   


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 10.0
  • SolidWorks
  • UG NX

Description

  • How to iterate or check out a non-latest or older version or revision or iteration of 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 version 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. How to allow this operation:
    Critical error: CAD Part - <CAD document file name and version> is not the latest version and cannot be revised.
  • Checkout non-latest iteration fails with error
    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 CAD document to become the latest iteration
  • Failed to revise a non-latest iteration of a non-latest revision with error
    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
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