Article - CS282719

Minimum Windchill license profile requirements for CAD integration with Windchill

Modified: 05-Dec-2025   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 11.1 to 13.1
  • Windchill PDM Essentials 11.1 to 12.0
  • Windchill ProjectLink 11.1 to 13.1
  • Creo Parametric 3.0 to 12.4
  • PTC Arbortext Editor 6.0 to 8.2
  • Creo Illustrate 9.0
  • Creo View Adapters 5.1 to 12.1
  • Windchill Workgroup Manager (WWGM)
  • AutoCAD
  • SolidWorks
  • Inventor
  • Catia
  • NX

Description

  • What licensing profiles are required for various CAD integrations with Windchill, including AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Catia, NX
  • Licensing compliance requirements for Windchill 
  • Is there any way to check list of users who is using licenses for SolidWorks and Windchill integration
  • Is there any need to purchase a separate license for the wcadmin (to add admin or test user) user to publish files
  • What licenses are needed when using Mentor Graphics with Windchill
  • What is the License group in Windchill to provide a user the ability to use Creo illustrate
  • Can Creo Parametric and Windchill 12 be used for design collaboration for multi users online
  • How to add a user to a license group for SolidWorks integration
  • The CAD administrator changed the license count and now the CAD endusers are getting an error message when attempting to register the Windchill PDMLink URL for usage in Creo Parametric 
  • Does it need Windchill Creo Data Management & Visualization license for Creo Parametric and Windchill integration
  • Is it possible for Creo to connect to Windchill and perform regular action such as check in and check out with Windchill Advance license only
  • Is Windchill Creo Data Management & Visualization License necessary when perform connecting Windchill and other action in Creo window
  • Windchill Creo Data Management & Visualization License was not generated
  • Is a license for Creo Data Management required for creating and checking in the illustration data to MPMLink by Creo Illustrate
  • If "ptc_wnc_base_named" license is not available, can we assign "ptc_wnc_navigate_view_named" and "ptc_creo_dm_and_vis_named" licenses to the member so that the member can connect Creo Parametric with Windchill PDMLink and check in CAD data
  • Using "PTC Mechanical Design II License" for connecting SolidWorks with Windchill versus "PTC Mechanical Design I License"
  • What is the minimum license required for Creo CAD design in Windchill? 
  • Unable to register a Windchill PDMLink server in Creo Parametric due to error message relate to a licensing problem

Error

Insufficient Windchill license to Windchill Server, connection to the server is refused

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