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How to export or download CAD Documents in bulk in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 10-Jul-2025   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 6.2 to 13.1
  • Windchill ProjectLink 6.2 to 13.0
  • Windchill PDM Essentials 10.1 to 11.1
  • Pro/INTRALINK 8.x + 8.0 to 11.2
  • Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire to Wildfire 5.0
  • Creo Parametric 1.0 to 11.0
  • Windchill Workgroup Manager
  • SolidWorks

Description

  • How to export CAD Documents or 3rd Party CAD Documents or EPM Documents to local disk
  • Users who do not have access to the Windchill Server need to export CAD Documents they are working on
  • User has access to Windchill PDMLink but would like to export just the CAD Documents to disk
  • How to batch export CAD Document to local disk
  • How to export CAD Document from one Windchill system to another
  • How to download CAD files to local disk directly without opening or checking out them
  • When copying an assembly from workspace folder to local disk and then opening it in SolidWorks, it shows abnormal components What's the correct way to export CAD documents from Windchill
  • How to download Creo Parametric objects in native format ( .PRT, .ASM or .DRW) instead of .pha (Pro/ENGINEER Helper App File) 
  • How to export or download all files in Windchilll to local drive at one time?
  • How to export all versions of a CAD Document?
  • How to get all instances of a CAD part or assembly from Windchill database
  • How to sent the whole set of drawings to supplier in a package, which is too slow to open and save them in Creo?
  • How to export 1000 + CAD documents from workspace to local disk
  • How to export more than 1000 CAD documents from workspace to local disk?
  • After renaming a CAD document used by an assembly in Windchill, the assembly still references the CAD document with original name when the primary content of the assembly is downloaded to local disk via Windchill API and opened. Is there a native function to export the assembly correctly
  • How to Export Folder Contents Using Import/Export Management Utility 
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