Viewing Representations

Fundamentals > Working with Windchill Objects > Visualization Overview > Representations and Annotations > Viewing Representations

You can view the representations of a part, document, CAD document, or Dynamic Document.

1. From the information page of the object, click New Tab and navigate to Customize > General > Representations/Annotations.

The Representations/Annotations page opens.

2. You can select an object and perform actions by selecting the Actions menu or using row actions on the right-click mouse action for the selected object.

◦ Following are the actions from the Actions menu:

Action	Description
Copy Selected	Copies selected objects to the Clipboard
Delete Selected	Deletes selected objects
Paste Selection	Pastes selected object from the Clipboard
New Representation	Creates a new representation
Refresh	Refreshes a table
WVS Job Monitor	Enables access to WVS Job Monitor
Paste	Pastes copied items from the Clipboard

◦ Following are the actions available on the right-click action:

Action	Description
Open in Creo View.	Opens representation in Creo View
Print with Creo View.	Prints representation with Creo View.
New Interference Detection Definition.	Creates a new interference detection definition.
View Thumbnail	Enables viewing thumbnail
Make Default Representation	Sets the selected representation as Default
Batch Print
Republish	Enables republishing of pending localized information and publication structures. Also rechecks the availability of any selected languages that were unavailable for the previous publishing job.
Post Publish	Post publishes the representation
Save Representation or Save Structure	Saves the representation or structure to the local file
Copy	Copies representation to the Clipboard
Paste	Pastes markups from Clipboard to representation.
Paste Selection	Pastes selected markups from Clipboard to representation.
Delete	Deletes the selected representation
Edit Access Control	Edits access by setting permission.

• Some actions and items may not be available depending on your permissions and system configuration.

• If it is implemented, you can select SHIFT+P to change browser preferences available to you. For more information about WebGL preferences, see Creo View WebGL Viewer.

You can search for content in the Representations/Annotations table by clicking inside the “Find in Representations/Annotations” search field and entering text. Use the Next Match / Previous Match arrows to scroll through the results.

• When you save the representation to a local file, a window appears that allows the data to be saved to either a file or to an URL that is linked to the data in Windchill. Saving as a file allows the data to be saved as a ZIP/PVZ (a PVZ file is a ZIP file containing a single set of Creo View data) or JAR file.

• You can also save annotations associated to the representation. Save the data as a PVZ file if you want to open the data directly into Creo View as local data. Save the data as a ZIP or JAR file if you plan to expand the data later before it is used in Creo View. Saving as a link allows you to save either from a hyperlink or a text field.

• You can save the representation as well as extended positioning assembly that contains files like the OL, PVA and other texture files associated with the representation along with the ZIP or JAR files.

To change the preference setting for multi-fidelity representations, edit the Preferred Fidelity preference.

See Setting Visualization User Preferences for more information about setting user preferences.

If you are displaying the representations for a part that has passively-linked CAD documents (for example, drawings), then the representations associated to those CAD documents are included in the table. These representations are identified by [<object name>] after the representation name and are read-only; you cannot set the default for, delete, or republish these representations from this table. You can perform these actions only from the relevant object’s representation listing.