Article - CS44609

Fails to Delete/Purge CAD Documents/EPM Documents in Windchill

Modified: 15-Apr-2025   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 10.1 to 13.0
  • Creo Parametric 1.0 to 11.0

Description

  • Typical steps necessary to delete or purge failures for EPM Documents or CAD Documents
  • How to handle the typical delete or purge failures?
  • Failed to delete thousands of EPMDocuments from Windchill with reference error
  • Failed to delete a model that is referenced by others with error:
    • A referential integrity violation occurred for this operation: Cannot delete EPM Document Master - <assembly1>.asm, <number> because it is referenced by Assembly - <assembly2>.asm, <number>, <version>
      
      (wt.fc.fcResource/45) wt.fc.ReferentialIntegrityException: A referential integrity violation occurred for this operation:
      Cannot delete EPM Document Master - XXX.prt because it is referenced by Assembly  - YYY.asm
  • Failed to delete family table with error:
    • Error- Referential integrity Violation occured for this operation:
      Unable to delete the object without first deleting the member CAD Part - <part1> - <number1> of the family table of generic EPMSep Family Table - <part2>.prt
      
      Nested exception is: (wt.epm.util.EPMNonoverridableConflictsRB/90) wt.epm.conflict.EPMNonOverrideableConflictException: TP-Processor2:  Delete conflict: CAD Unable to delete CAD Part  - xxxxxxprt, #.# without also deleting the following members of the family table:
  • Failed to delete a drawing that is associated with a WTPart
    • Can not delete described by "<XXX.drw>, <context>, <version>" that describes following versions : <wtpart>, <org>, <version> (<view>)
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