Article - CS289918

Best Practice of resolving Incomplete, Ghost objects or Placeholder Documents when using Creo Parametric with Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 20-Aug-2024   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 10.0 to 13.0
  • Creo Parametric 1.0 to 10.0
  • Creo+

Description

  • Suggest steps on below topics:
    • Managing Incomplete Objects
    • Sometimes Windchill PDMLink can auto-resolve the conflicts, sometimes it does not
    • What is the best way to find out where object appearing as ghosts come from?
    • How to resolve Incomplete Objects in a short time?
    • How to resolve issues with the following Check In Conflict?
Conflict Description:
Cannot check in place holder document <model type> - <filename>, <ORG>, A.1.
  • Fails to check in assembly with some component like piece file whose icon is different with others. 
  • Fails to check in a part that has copy geometry features from other part and the icon of the part is different after saving
  • Where does the ghost files come from when saving assemblies, which sometimes disappear after checked in with auto resolve option checked?
  • Can we ignore External References while checking in CAD Documents into Windchill?
  • Is it possible to resolve Incomplete, Ghost objects without modifying the CAD Document?
  • When creating a new part in a design exploration session, does it always create a ghost object? How to avoid it?
  • Cannot check in higher level assembly and its sub component due to ghost assembly associated with the latter part
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