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Overview<br />

<strong>Windchill</strong> Import and Export can assist you in moving <strong>Windchill</strong> content and<br />

metadata to and from <strong>Windchill</strong> PDM, <strong>Windchill</strong> PDMLink, and <strong>Windchill</strong><br />

ProjectLink sites by placing the data in JAR files.<br />

<strong>Windchill</strong> Export places in JAR files on your file system all the data held in highlevel<br />

<strong>Windchill</strong> objects in the local <strong>Windchill</strong> database. <strong>Windchill</strong> Import extracts<br />

such JAR files to the local <strong>Windchill</strong> database.<br />

<strong>Windchill</strong> Export allows you to compress the data in any of the following<br />

<strong>Windchill</strong> objects into a JAR file:<br />

• Objects in Cabinets and Folders -- The content of objects supported by<br />

<strong>Windchill</strong> Export that is located in cabinets and folders is compressed.<br />

Folders and cabinets are not supported, but for each supported object, data is<br />

included in the JAR file about the cabinets and folders that held it.<br />

• Product Structure (built with active configuration specification) -- A WTPart<br />

serves as the seed object for a complete product structure, which includes its<br />

dependent child WTParts and associated WTDocuments, built with the active<br />

configuration specification. The following can serve as seed objects:<br />

Subclasses of WTParts, serial numbered parts, instances of soft typed<br />

WTParts, and End Items which are also known as WTProducts.<br />

• CAD Document Structure (built with latest configuration specification) -- A<br />

CAD Document serves as the seed object for a complete CAD structure<br />

generated with the latest configuration specification. No WTParts or links<br />

between WTParts and CAD Documents are exported.<br />

• Product Structure with CAD Documents (built with active configuration<br />

specification) -- A product structure of WTParts with CAD Documents<br />

combines the two preceding options. It supports exporting the product<br />

structure of the WTParts and CAD Structure of the CAD Documents along<br />

with the build rules between the two structures. This leads to the export of<br />

WTParts, product structure, CAD Documents, CAD structure, and content<br />

files.<br />

• Document -- Ordinary or Soft Type instances of Documents can be included<br />

in the JAR file.<br />

• Soft Type Definition -- WTDocuments and WTParts can have soft type<br />

definitions. You cannot check out type definitions on export.<br />

The JAR suffix is automatically appended unless you specify another suffix. You<br />

can filter objects by their time of last modification to control what is included in a<br />

JAR file. Any software that expands ordinary zip files can also expand the JAR<br />

files produced by <strong>Windchill</strong> Export.<br />

<strong>Windchill</strong> Import allows you to specify the placement in the <strong>Windchill</strong> database<br />

of content that was exported.<br />

6-2 <strong>Windchill</strong> <strong>System</strong> Administrator’s <strong>Guide</strong>

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