Creating Client-side Viewables

When connected to Windchill Workgroup Manager, PTC Mathcad automatically generates a static, client-side viewable when Custom Check In is selected. This feature is useful when you want to share PTC Mathcad data in your files with users who do not have PTC Mathcad installed on their computers. The generated viewable is displayed in Creo View, and can be printed, viewed, and copied to the clipboard. This section describes the process for generating a viewable from PTC Mathcad and, using Windchill, viewing it in Creo View.

1. Before PTC Mathcad can create a viewable, you must set a preference in the WindchillPreference Management utility that determines whether a viewable is generated using defaults, or whether you prefer to set options each time you initiate Check In. To enable viewable generation, access from Windchill Utilities > Preference Management > Workgroup Manager Client, locate the Check In Content Options preference, and right-click to choose Set Preference

2. The Set Preference dialog for Check In Content Options is displayed. There are three options available:

◦ Models Only - The native PTC Mathcad models will be checked in as content to their own documents. This is the default.

◦ Viewables Only - An empty Dynamic Document will be checked in for each of the models in session along with a viewable.

◦ Models and Viewables - Checks in the native PTC Mathcad models as content of their own Dynamic Document AND checks in a new viewable for all modified models in session.

3. In the Value: field, type in Models and Viewables and click OK. The preference is now set for PTC Mathcad to create viewables when Custom Check In is selected.

4. Now you will create a viewable each time you use Custom Check In. Open a PTC Mathcad file – in this example, the sample document symbols_02.xmcd, and select Custom Check In. The Save to Workspace window opens, with the file name greyed out in the Model Name field. Press OK.

5. Windchill checks in the PTC Mathcad file and creates a viewable, which can be accessed from the Information page of the file. Return to the Primary Active Workspace in Windchill Workgroup Manager, and click the Information icon

of the sample file symbols_02.xmcd to access the file's Information page.

6. Click the Creo View icon

to launch Creo View and display the viewable created during Custom Check In. The viewable created for symbols_02.xmcd is shown in the next graphic.

You must have Creo View installed on your system to see your viewables. PTC provides a copy of Creo View Lite to users to enable access to viewables. In the previous step, if Creo View Lite is not installed on your system, you will be prompted to install it before you can see the viewable. If necessary, complete this action before proceeding

Thumbnail generation is supported if the thumbnail worker (pvsthumbworker) on Windows is configured on the server of any supported OS. If the server is on a Windows machine, then the server should have Adobe installed with the Creo View plugin.

7. The three icons below the Image box on the Information page allow you to copy the image to the clipboard, print the image, and display a list of representations for the file. The following screen shows the representations for symbols_02.xmcd. The image in the Thumbnail column indicates that a viewable is associated with the file.

When client side viewable are published using PTC Mathcad and Windchill Workgroup Manager with Adobe Printer as the printer setting, junk characters may be displayed in the generated PDF. To avoid this, uncheck the ‘Rely on system Fonts only; do not use document fonts’ option from your printer setting, go to Printer Properties > Advanced > Printer Defaults.