Support for Pro-Manikin Files

Pro-manikin files are a set of library files provided by PTC. The files depict the human figures and also help the customers in simulation purposes. Manikin files are mainly used for the simulation of vehicles.

Note: The Save to PLM operation for Pro-Manikin files are supported from the integration kits 372_553 ( 64 bit ) and 372_554 ( 32 bit ) onwards.

The Pro-Manikin files installed during the installation of WF4 have the name “manikin” in them.

Assemblies can be created using these library files to suit the needs of the various test environments. For the PLM integration program to consider a file as a manikin file, the file name must contain “manikin”. The naming convention is required because there is no Pro-Toolkit API available to recognize the file as manikin files. When the Assembly file name contains “Manikin”, all the component under this are treated as Manikin files regardless of their names.

When a Pro-Manikin file is saved to PLM, only DOC and FILE objects are created for these files. No Item is created. When the Generate Object-Ids based on Item-ID preference is set enabled, the FILE-ID and the FileName are created same as DOC-ID.

If an assembly file is identified as a manikin file, then all the files under this assembly (all levels) are considered as Manikin files, irrespective of naming convention for the component files.