Article - CS38925

Windchill Workgroup Manager Client running on the Windows 64-bit platform becomes unresponsive when invoking Windchill actions from AutoCAD

Modified: 14-Nov-2017   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 9.1 to 10.2
  • AutoCAD 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
  • Windows 7 64-bit
  • Windows XP 64-bit
  • Not reproducible on Windows XP 32-bit
  • Internet Explorer 7, 8

Description

  • Windchill Workgroup Manager Client running on the Windows 64-bit platform becomes unresponsive when invoking Windchill actions from AutoCAD.
  • Affecting WWGM client machines on remote sites with users that are configured using the Preferred File Server preference to connect to a File Server Content Cache.
  • AutoCAD  and WWGM clients have been installed using the same procedure for both Windows XP 32-bit and Windows XP 64-bit machines.
  • Has been experienced when invoking windchill commands such as Upload, Check-In, Save As, etc.
  • UWGM client Debug logs contain the following messages:
E: uwgmapp: UWGM_ADAPTER: startupCOMHelper: Unable to get CLSID for acadapter_com_helper
E: uwgmapp: UWGM_ADAPTER: startupCOMHelper: Cannot retrieve COM Helper, there won't be one.
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