Behavior of Creo Authored CAD Documents

Creo authored data are the CAD documents that are created in CATIA V5, NX, SOLIDWORKS, Autodesk Inventor, Creo Elements/Direct Modeling and checked into Windchill through Creo. These documents are read-only in native CAD sessions that are connected to Windchill Workgroup Manager. You can perform Open and Save As actions on Creo authored CAD documents (models) in a CAD session connected to Windchill Workgroup Manager.

A warning message appears if you try to open and edit a Creo authored CAD document in its native CAD tool.

The same message is displayed in the client message area as shown in the following figure.

• The following error message appears if you attempt to export a Creo authored CAD document that is checked into Windchill through Creo.

• Creo authored CAD documents are published by the Creo CAD worker only and not by a native CAD worker.

Feature	Behavior
Insert and Replace from Windchill	These actions are disabled in the CATIA V5 menu and toolbar when Creo authored CATIA V5 assemblies are active in the session.
Design-in-Context and Top-down Design	• Include and Exclude actions are enabled for Creo authored CATIA V5 components. However, attempting to include or exclude these models fails with an error message. • Creo authored CATIA V5 models that are annotated should be excluded from Top-down Design as actions that modify (Add, Update, Delete) are ignored by Top-down Design processing.

The Authoring App Version Reference is used to distinguish between objects that are checked in by CATIA V5, NX, SOLIDWORKS, Autodesk Inventor, Creo Elements/Direct Modeling and Creo authored documents. This Authoring App Version Reference is visible on the CAD document property page. The Workspace table display can be configured to show the value of Authoring App Version Reference. The following table shows the native CATIA V5, NX, SOLIDWORKS, Creo Elements/Direct Modeling files checked in first time through Creo.

CAD Document	Authoring App Version Reference
SOLIDWORKS	SOLIDWORKS updated in Creo
NX	NX updated in Creo
Autodesk Inventor	Autodesk Inventor updated in Creo
Creo Elements/Direct Modeling	Creo Elements/Direct Modeling updated in Creo
CATIA V5	CATIA V5 updated in Creo

• For more information, see the following:

◦ In the Creo Help Center, navigate to Data Exchange > Creo Unite, or search for the topic Opening non-Creo models.

◦ https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS134024