What is the connection between thingworx - navigate - windchill? Why is thingworx required for navigate installation? I am still a beginner in thingworx and haven't been able to find out what exactly is the connection between these three. Can you help me

[Vinay_S]

As far my understanding thingworx is an umbrella under which thingworx studio is used to create experiences and thingworx view is used to visualize these experiences as a part of augmented reality. But what is the use of thingworx core and why is it a requirement to install navigate? I understood navigate is used to make windchill end users to access windchill data/objects easily. But what is thingworx core doing here in between? How is it connected? I am missing link here, please help.

[CRArko · Accepted solution]

Hello, Vinay S.

This is not a simple question but I'll take a stab at starting to provide an answer, at least.

Where ThingWorx fits in the Navigate architecture is to provide a basis for the User Interface as seen through Navigate. Windchill itself has an expansive and sometimes overwhelming interface, in the sense that a lot of data is supplied and often more than is necessary for a particular use case.

What ThingWorx does is pull appropriate data from Windchill and then integrate that into display mashups that are more specific to particular tasks; i.e. it acts as a smart filtering mechanism. And once the data is pulled into ThingWorx other tools can be brought to bear on it; visualization via ThingWorx Studio and analysis via ThingWorx Analytics to name a couple.

Does this help at least starting to fill in the gaps?

Thanks!

-- Craig A.

[Vinay_S]

Mr. Craig Arko

Thank you for this short but effective answer. I got the missing link here.