Article - CS456009
Unable to delete latest iteration of CAD Document due to referential integrity error in Windchill PDMLink
Modified: 30-Apr-2026
Applies To
- Windchill ProjectLink 13.0 to 13.1
- Windchill MPMLink 13.0 to 13.1
- Windchill PartsLink 13.0 to 13.1
- Windchill PDMLink 13.0 to 13.1
Description
- Unable to delete latest iteration of CAD Document due to referential integrity error in Windchill PDMLink
- Need to rollback latest revision or iteration of CAD Drawing, but facing referential integrity violation errors
- Cannot delete objects when following this workflow:
- Create a Generic and Instance with Drawing and WTPart
- Check all in, ensuring that WTPart has a Content link to Instance, Content link to Drawing, Owner link to Generic
- Check out and in, observing that all versions are synced (i.e., all are B.2)
- Observe that despite this, upon every check in the previous versions are desynced
- i.e. WTPart B.4, Generic B.4, Instance B.4, Drawing B.4
- WTPart B.3, Generic B.3, Instance B.4, Drawing B.4
- Receive error when attempting to delete latest CAD Documents:
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Referential integrity violations occurred for this operation: Cannot delete described by "####.DRW, B.3" that describes following versions : ###, B.2 Cannot delete described by "####.PRT, B.3" that describes following versions : ###, B.2
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