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Planning for an Automated Publishing Configuration
The first task of the configuration process is researching the requirements for products, releases, platforms, and then planning how to install the products. The procedure follows.
Reminder: Each adapter has its own chapter in the Creo View MCAD Adapter Installation and Configuration Guide.
1. Determine the supported authoring application release to use to process your Windchill data and the supported operating system and language on which to install it.
For information on which CAD applications are supported by the Creo View Adapters, see Creo View Adapters Software Matrices.
For more information on Windchill compatibility with Creo View and the Creo View Adapters, see the Visualization Windchill Compatibility and Platform Overview.
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In most cases, you can use a later version of the authoring application to open and process data created in earlier releases.
2. Choose where the WVS Worker is to be installed and the common file-system to use, based on the documented Creo View adapter and authoring application requirements.
Refer to the following information in the Creo View MCAD Adapter Installation and Configuration Guide:
For information on the adapter and its run-modes, see “Overview of the Conversion Process.”
For general Creo View Adapters prerequisites, see “General Prerequisites for the Conversion Process.”
For additional adapter specific prerequisites, see the Introduction section and the Adapter Prerequisites section, under Introduction to the Creo View Adapter for <application> chapter.
For example, for Creo Parametric, see “Introduction to proe2pv” and “Creo Parametric Adapter Prerequisites” under the “Introduction to the Creo View Adapter for Creo Parametric” chapter.
Proceed to install and configure the Creo View Adapters.