Hello Everyone,
I just wanted to some people to chime in and let me know how you're handling legacy CAD that is still in use.
My scenario is that we have very old PDF and TIFF drawings loaded in Windchill as WTDocs, and associated to the WTParts. These are active part numbers. And sometimes we have to run Change Notices on these items to update a dimension, change a radius, add a chamfer, etc, etc. When this happens, in most cases we decide it is worth the time to create a Creo model and drawing when we revise the part number.
Thus we have the old legacy file (PDF/TIFF) as revision A in Released state. And we have the WTPart and Creo model/drawing at revision B in the In Work, and later Released state. Therefore a user does a global search (top right corner of Windchill) for PARTNUMBER* and it returns 4 objects - the old PDF rev A and the 3 rev B objects (WTPart/model/drawing).
I've heard that some people move the legacy CAD data into a separate container that nobody has access to view. But then when you look back at revision A of the WTPart, it appears that there is no drawing associated with it. That is because the same permissions that deny the user from seeing the old rev A PDF in the search results is also denying the user from seeing the old rev A PDF in the "Described By" table on the WTPart.
So how do you handle it?