Article - CS305043

AutoCAD drawings with XREFS opened from Windchill PDMLink Product level are missing the XREFS when using a Project level workspace

Modified: 18-Apr-2019   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 11.1
  • Windchill PDM Essentials 11.1
  • Pro/INTRALINK 8.x + 11.1
  • Windchill ProjectLink 11.1
  • Windchill Workgroup Manager
  • Autodesk AutoCAD 2019

Description

  • AutoCAD drawings with XREFS opened from Windchill PDMLink Product level are missing the XREFS when using a Project level workspace
Steps to reproduce
  1. In Windchill Workgroup Manager client create a workspace in the context of a Windchill PDMLink Project
  2. In Windchill PDMLink have the preference >Integral Operations >Convert to Share Collector >Enable Automatic Share to Project set to Allow Automatic Sharing
  3. Navigate using Windchill Workgroup Manager client embedded browser to the Product level where an AutoCAD drawing to XREF's dependents is located
  4. From the AutoCAD icon click to Open in AutoCAD the parent drawing
  5. Once opened in AutoCAD notice the warning flagging the missing XREFs
Expectation:
  • Since that in Windchill PDMLink the preference >Integral Operations >Convert to Share Collector >Enable Automatic Share to Project set to Allow Automatic Sharing all dependent XREFS should be collected as well
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