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ETRAGE Plot Service for Windchill (PSW)

Today’s business demands that CAD, PLM, PDM and design and engineering data be available instantly. ETRAGE Plot Service for PTC Windchill (PSW) easily extends representations of product and engineering data from Windchill for distribution beyond design and engineering functions.

ETRAGE Plot Service for Windchill (PSW) provides the ability to create viewable files such as PDF, DXF, STEP and IGES files of CAD data out of PTC Windchill.

PSW supports following file formats:

  • PTC® Creo® Parametric®
  • PTC® Creo® Schematics®
  • CATIA®
  • NX®
  • Inventor®
  • AutoCAD®
  • SolidWorks®
  • MS Word
  • MS Excel
  • MS PowerPoint
  • MS VISIO files

PSW Key Features:

  • Process PTC Creo, Inventor, CATIA V5, SolidWorks, AutoCAD and NX drawings, parts and assemblies
  • Works with Windchill PDMLink & INTRALINK 9.x, 10.x, 11.x, 12.x PDM Essentials or a Windows file system
  • Automated Monitoring of Windchill for Lifecycle, Revision and Check-in changes
  • Additional Batch and On-Demand operating modes
  • Filtering on Windchill attributes and character strings in the model’s CAD Name, Name or Number
  • Supports searching for documents by Windchill soft attribute
  • Job prioritizing and status reporting
  • Automatic creation of PDF, PS, HPGL, IGES, 2D STEP, 3D STEP, STL, ACIS, DWG, DXF, TIFF, BMP, JPG, EPS, and Metadata files from Creo Parametric® drawings, parts and assemblies
  • Dynamic Watermarking of PDF files with time & date stamps, attributes, parameters and text
  • Integration with TransMagic, Theorem Solutions Applications and AutoVue for CAD translations including Creo, CATIA V5®, CATIA V4®, NX, SolidWorks®, and Solid Edge®
  • Automatic creation of 3D PDF, CreoView, JT, Division Mock-up®, 3DVIA, Shrink-wrap, & VRML files from Creo assemblies
  • MS Office Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Visio processing to PDF and download Windchill documents
  • Extraction of the Notes created by engineers in the Creo Drawings.
  • Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Visio processing to PDF and download Windchill documents
  • Automatic upload of PDFs to Windchill and SharePoint Server 2019
  • Export drawing, diagram, part and assembly files in native geometry or archive format
  • Extract metadata and mass properties for downstream applications
  • Providing viewable files and metadata for other systems like IFS through post processing add-ons
  • Created viewable files can be additionally processed through post processing add-ons
  • Standard Windows interface