In a CAD authoring tool such as CATIA V5, you are required to update your part, assemblies or drawing. The update option ensures that the CAD application saves your changes or edit. You can update your part in CATIA V5 in two modes:

The default update mode is Automatic. However, sometimes the automatic updates may cause issues. For example, when you are working on editing a model in CATIA V5, the automatic update will ask you to reconsider your design before updating the changes in the workspace.

In Windchill Workgroup Manager, you may face issues during the publishing. The viewable represents updated documents (Parts/assemblies). If the viewable is not updated by the user before initiating the save action, then CATIA’s auto update may impact the viewable. When CATIA V5 initiates automatic update when you publish your changes, the viewable of such documents are not updated.

To resolve this issue, PTC recommends that you disable automatic updates on your worker machine.

To disable automatic updates in Windchill Workgroup Manager:

To disable downloading the dependencies of a CATIA V5 drawing, set the update.drawing.views.on.publish preference to No. When publishing a CATIA V5 drawing, Windchill Workgroup Manager downloads and loads the drawing without its dependencies and no drawing view update happens when generating drawing viewable.

To disable downloading the dependencies of a CATIA V5 part, set the update.single.part.on.publish preference to No. When publishing a single CATIA V5 part, Windchill Workgroup Manager downloads and loads the part without its dependencies. It also updates the part geometry using the file synchronization worker.

For more information refer to Frequently Used Preferences in the wgmclient.ini File (CATIA V5).