Article - CS321689

Unable to define MS Excel spreadsheet as reference for an Autodesk Inventor drawing when following the workflow recommended in the Windchill PDMLink Online Help

Modified: 19-Apr-2020   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 11.0 to 11.2
  • Windchill Workgroup Manager
  • Autodesk Inventor
  • Microsoft MS Excel

Description

  • Unable to define MS Excel spreadsheet as reference(s) for an Autodesk Inventor drawing when following the workflow recommended in the Windchill PDMLink Online Help 
    • Information on the workflow is to be found in Windchill PDMLink section Managing Spreadsheets Related to Autodesk Inventor Models as CAD Documents
    • Expected that these Microsoft Excel documents are marked as Windchill PDMLink 'Dependent' files and collected on check-in and check-out
    • Also, expected to see these MS Excel files added as References in Windchill PDMLink to the *.idw drawing files linked to
  • There are missing MS-Excel references in an Inventor *.idw drawing if the Excel content was inserted in the drawing using various methods but not checked-in Windchill PDMLink
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