Using a File Synchronization-Capable Worker
Presently, the following workers are file synchronization-capable:
• Creo Parametric
• Servigistics Arbortext
• Creo Elements/Direct Modeling
• Creo Elements/Direct Drafting
• Autodesk Inventor
• CATIA V5
• SolidWorks
• NX
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• Only the Creo View Adapters for Creo Parametric and CATIA V5 currently support configuring multiple aliased workers (using the dAPI -DA argument) of the same type, that are also configured for file synchronization on a single host machine.
• Servigistics Arbortext does not support configuration of multiple workers of different CAD types on a single host machine.
For more information, refer to the “Configuring Multiple File Sync Workers” sub-topic in the ‘Using a File Synchronization-Capable Worker with Windchill Workgroup Manager’ help topic in the Windchill Workgroup Manager Administrator's and User's Guide for your respective CAD application.
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The following is an example of the configuration changes needed to tell Windchill Visualization Services to use file synchronization for publishing data. This general concept applies to all file synchronization-capable workers.
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• The out-of-the-box wvs.properties file enables the use of file synchronization by default for the Servigistics Arbortext and Creo Parametric workers. Follow the steps below and create an auth.properties file for, publishing to succeed.
• Beginning at Windchill 10.2, PTC has changed the location of the wvs.properties and wvs.properties.xconf files. These files have been moved from the <Windchill>/codebase directory to the <Windchill>/codebase/WEB-INF/conf directory. Be sure to make any necessary changes to your code to reflect this location change.
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To enable the feature for the other file synchronization-capable workers, follow the steps below. Be sure to note the differences in the command string for each of the file synchronization-capable workers.
1. Append the useworkerdownload variable to the publish.cadconvert.<authoring application internal name> variable in the wvs.properties file using xconfmanager. This tells the publisher to use the worker for the file download (useworkerdownload) and that the username and password to give the worker can be found in the auth.properties file in the Windchill directory.
From a Windchill shell, execute the following commands:
a. To display the current value of the publish.cadconvert<authoring application internal name> variable:
xconfmanager -d publish.cadconvert.<authoring application internal name>
b. Append to the variable definition to the publish.cadconvert<authoring application internal name> variable. Using the information results of the display command, append to that:
useworkerdownload=$(wt.home)$(wvs.dir.sep)auth.properties
Use a comma (,) separator when appending the new value.
For Creo Parametric:
xconfmanager -s
publish.cadconvert.PROE=com.ptc.wvs.server.publish.CadConvertPROE,
useworkerdownload=$(wt.home)$(wvs.dir.sep)auth.properties
-t <Windchill>\codebase\wvs.properties -p
Where <Windchill> is the location where Windchill is installed.
For Autodesk Inventor:
xconfmanager -s
publish.cadconvert.INVENTOR=com.ptc.wvs.server.publish.CadConvert
INVENTOR,useworkerdownload=$(wt.home)$(wvs.dir.sep)auth.properties
-t <Windchill>\codebase\wvs.properties -p
Where <Windchill> is the location where Windchill is installed.
For SolidWorks:
xconfmanager -s
publish.cadconvert.SOLIDWORKS=com.ptc.wvs.server.publish.Cad
ConvertSOLIDWORKS,useworkerdownload=$(wt.home)$(wvs.dir.sep)auth.
properties -t <Windchill>\codebase\wvs.properties -p
Where <Windchill> is the location where Windchill is installed.
For NX:
xconfmanager -s
publish.cadconvert.UG=com.ptc.wvs.server.publish.CadConvertUG,
useworkerdownload=$(wt.home)$(wvs.dir.sep)auth.properties,assytype=
topdown,repiba=additional_reps -t <Windchill>\
codebase\wvs.properties -p
Where <Windchill> is the location where Windchill is installed.
For CATIA V5:
xconfmanager -s
publish.cadconvert.CATIAV5=com.ptc.wvs.server.publish.CadConvert
CATIAV5,useworkerdownload=$(wt.home)$(wvs.dir.sep)auth.properties
-t <Windchill>\codebase\wvs.properties -p
Where <Windchill> is the location where Windchill is installed.
For Creo Elements/Direct Drafting:
xconfmanager -s
publish.cadconvert.COCRDRAFT=com.ptc.wvs.server.publish.CadConvert
COCRDRAFT,useworkerdownload=$(wt.home)$(wvs.dir.sep)auth.properties
-t <Windchill>\codebase\wvs.properties -p
For Creo Elements/Direct Modeling:
xconfmanager -s
publish.cadconvert.COCRMODEL=com.ptc.wvs.server.publish.CadConvert
COCRMODEL,useworkerdownload=$(wt.home)$(wvs.dir.sep)auth.properties
-t <Windchill>\codebase\wvs.properties -p
Where <Windchill> is the location where Windchill is installed.
For Servigistics Arbortext:
xconfmanager -s
publish.cadconvert.ARBORTEXT=com.ptc.wvs.server.publish.CadConvert
ARBORTEXT,useworkerdownload=$(wt.home)$(wvs.dir.sep)auth.properties,
types=PDF HTML WEB POSTSCRIPT HTMLHELP SGML XML RTF DMP 3D,
defaulttype=PDF -t <Windchill>\codebase\wvs.
properties -p
Where <Windchill> is the location where Windchill is installed.
2. The publish.cadconvert.<authoring application internal name> variable edited in the previous step references the auth.properties file. At this time, the file does not exist and must be created. Complete the following steps:
a. In the above examples, WVS looks for the auth.properties file in the Windchill directory, but it can be placed anywhere. For security reasons, the file must not be located in the codebase directory.
b. Create the auth.properties file using a text editor of your choice.
c. Add an authentication variable that includes a user name and password value. This is the only entry in this file. The syntax is:
auth=<username>:<password>
Replace <username> and <password> with valid values. The specified user name must have read access to the Windchill objects to be published through Windchill Visualization Services, and it must have the authorization to download the content from Windchill.
d. Save your changes and close the auth.properties file.
3. Restart the Windchill server.
