Article - CS424057
Solidworks Drawings are published to PDF as blank in Windchill PDMLink
Modified: 04-Sep-2024
Applies To
- Windchill PDMLink 11.1 to 13.0
- Creo View Adapters 6.1 to 11.0
- Solidworks - All Versions
- Windchill Visualization Services (WVS)
Description
- Solidworks Drawings are published to PDF as blank in Windchill PDMLink
- Open the drawing in Solidworks via swpublish.bat, it get all the content without any message, and able to generate correct PDF via Save as PDF or Tools > Publish > Publish to Creo view
- Same behavior for the newly created soldworks drawing
- Configured to use non-File synchronization solidworks worker
- Captured CAD files and representation content from Common File System folder as CS273222 and source files for publishing via sw2pv.rcp > Advanced > Output Location : Source Output Path
- It shows content in drawing retrieved from Common File System folder, but shows blank in published PDF on the same temp folder
- The content is lost in drawing retrieved from source output path folder
- Unable to open the same drawing inhouse and get the below message:
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Unable to locate the file <FOLDER>\workspace\xxx.SLDPRT
(a different model name referenced for current drawing)
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