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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