PDM Actions

This section contains information about the use of product data management (PDM) actions that are used to manage your Creo CADDS 5 data in Windchill. These actions are available from both Creo CADDS 5 and from the Windchill user interface.

For the Creo CADDS 5 R16 Windchill Workgroup Manager, PDM actions are also available from the right mouse button (RMB) menu within the CAMU tree with the following exceptions:

PDM actions from the RMB menu apply only to the selected node on which the action is performed (unlike from the main Creo CADDS 5 window, where PDM actions apply to the object active in session).

Windchill Workgroup Manager changes the behavior of some of the native commands in your authoring application, such as File or Activate. For example:

• when Creo CADDS 5 is connected to Windchill Workgroup Manager, the File and Activate operations default to the workspace local directory.

• once a CAD object has been named in the authoring application, it cannot be renamed later to maintain naming conventions. In other words, Windchill Workgroup Manager cannot modify the value of the File Name attribute for CADDS 5 objects in Windchill. However, you are able to perform this action server-side.