Article - CS160454
How to configure Creo Parametric to generate soft types of CAD Documents upon upload to Windchill PDMLink
Modified: 06-Jan-2026
Applies To
- Windchill PDMLink 9.0 to 13.1
- Creo Parametric 1.0 to 11.0
Description
- Is there a way to generate soft types of CAD Documents upon upload action
- How to upload local Creo parts as subtype of CAD Document into Windchill PDMLink
- Able to create CAD part with custom CAD document sub-type in Windchill UI from the browser however, while trying to create CAD document from Creo Parametric, custom CAD document sub-type is not created.
- Upload of CAD object fails with the following error:
- Content category "null" for content object <filename> in the document <filename> could not be found on server
- Unable to check in new instances with content category error
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