Customizing Auto Associate
This section contains information about customizing Auto Associate behavior. As a Windchill administrator, you can customize the Auto Associate action in various ways to suit specific business needs. For example, you can:
set server-side preferences to automatically find matching Windchill parts using the CAD document base number.
modify the implementation of the AutoAssociatePartFinderCreator interface.
modify the implementation to search for customized parts or custom parts.
customize the type of CAD documents that can be actively associated.
prevent the creation of parts by an Auto Associate action.
control the default location of parts created by an Auto Associate action.
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Auto Associate customization is applicable to Creo Parametric, Creo Elements/Direct, as well as every Windchill Workgroup Manager that integrates a 3rd party CAD tool with Windchill.
You can list the server-side preferences that can be set to control Auto Associate behavior by:
a. Logging into Windchill as an administrator.
b. Selecting Utilities > Preference Management > Operation > Auto Associate in the Navigator, within an Organization context.
For more information, see the following topics.
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