Article - CS28858
How to remove legacy, invalid, default references in drawings or layouts or models in a linked session with Windchill PDMLink
Modified: 23-Jul-2025
Applies To
- Creo Parametric 1.0 to 12.4
- Windchill PDMLink 6.2 to 13.0
- Windchill ProjectLink 6.2 to 12.0
- Windchill PDM Essentials 10.1 to 12.0
- Pro/INTRALINK 8.x + 8.0 to 12.0
- Creo+
Description
- Under some circumstances, drawings, layouts and models can contain unwanted Default, Ghost, Invalid, Old or Legacy references to models, how to remove these references?
- How to remove historical references to models in drawings?
- How to remove references to models that were previously replaced, renamed, copied, saved as or save a copy some time in the past from drawings and layouts?
- How to remove drawing dependencies?
- How to remove references to ghost objects created during save as that prevent check in?
- How to remove references to objects or ghost objects that fail remove from workspace with messages like: To remove a child xxx.prt, parent xxx.drw object should also be removed or The drawing references the listed models by name; however these models cannot be removed
- Models show a "Default" reference to drawings or layouts or other models but the reference is not displayed in the model or global reference viewer.
- How to remove the reference from being displayed in Windchill?
- Usage of cleanup_drawing_dependencies config option
- Usage of cleanup_layout_dependencies config option
- Usage of dm_hide_model_dummy_deps config option
- How to break the additional reference with 3d models for 2d drawings? For example, some additional broken files will appear when uploading 2d drawing to Windchill, which shows the 3D model combination of the 5 parts inside Creo 3D assembly.
- The 3D is saved as from other data. When checking in, other unrelated objects will also be checked in. How to check in only the 3D needed ?
- Pulling a family table generic and instance is pulling a drawing
- xxx.drw has a NON-REQUIRED dependency on CAD Part xxx.prt
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