When a recursive or circular reference data is created in Windchill, it can be loaded in Creo Elements/Direct Modeling by setting the Windchill Workgroup Manager preference load.recursive.data to Yes in the wgmclient.ini file. For more information on the preference, refer to Frequently Used Preferences in the wgmclient.ini File.

When you try to load the recursive or circular reference data, an error message is displayed mentioning a list of recursive references. After you click OK on the error dialog, the parent of such data is loaded in partial mode in Creo Elements/Direct Modeling.

If the loaded data has recursive or circular references below it, the PDM actions in Creo Elements/Direct Modeling will not work. You can delete the partially loaded data in the session and work with rest of the data using PDM Actions.