Windchill Ideas

Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. 1. What version of the software are you running? 12.1. 2. What is the problem? when working with WGM & Solidworks after making change to part/asm/drw the system pop-up a conflict window requesting to select what action to apply (Continue / Revise / Check-Out ) prior to save operation. this can be tedious due to the following : 1. pop-up window remain in the background. 2. extra selection is needed 3. extra mouse travel. 3. Are you using a workaround? If yes, please describe it. No workaround available. 4. What is the use case for your organization? Describe how your idea would work in context or how it would apply to a practical situation. simply copy the solution available for Creo Parametric. in Creo you have an option (described in Article - CS44835 ) to apply dm_auto_conflict_resolution yes/no* together with dm_checkout_on_the_fly check out*/continue which solve the issue and increase user productivity and satisfaction since no longer need to deal with conflict window. 5. What impact does this problem currently have on your organization? (Number of users affected, hours of lost productivity, etc.) 1. loose of productivity 2. disturbing the user in his design activities. ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. I work as a PLM admin in an automotive company where 2000 personnel are employed and 500 personnel are actively using windchill. 2. What version of Windchill are you currently running? Windchill 12.0.2.4 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video.   I need to define the length of an attribute greater than 500. Now Windchill is a system that is used very effectively by companies. In some projects, it is necessary to enter long explanations, but we cannot provide this.     4. What is the use case for your organization? all users have to create various documents and enter descriptions. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? quite important. ... View more

When using the "Save as" funtionallity, the newly created objects inherit the values for all custom made attrubutes. Often these values has to be modified anyway, so the object has to be check out/modified/checked in after the "Save as" Having the ability to modify the values in the "Save as" wizard would reduce the work of copying an object. ... View more

O365 is not going away.  PTC should get with the program and update the add-ins to allow DTI to work with the full cloud O365 ... View more

Not always it is supported or intended to start right away with a AutoNumber for CAD Docs. There are cases for import or special features in CAD especially when autonumbering is configured with manual overwrite. It would be great to have a renumber feature for INWORK objects which might be already checked in but did not get released yet - initial revision. After a revise this feature should not be available for that object anymore. Best practice s to use for wtparts same sequence as for CAD Models, CAD Drawings should get there own sequence ... View more

Basically allow a user to do anything to multiple objects that they can do to a single object.   This includes but is NOT LIMITED to: RENAME of Multiple unrelated objects from Search page (or folders) [Windchill 11.0 F000] DELETE Multiple unrelated objects from Search page (or folders) [In Roadmap for future release] Change STATE of Multiple unrelated objects from Search page (or folders) (It looks like this one may be implemented in 10.1) (I crossed off Item 3 because I heard it was available in in WC10.1, but since switching we found it is not available under the search results page...so I am re-including it) [Windchill 10.1 M040 Folders, 10.2 M030 Search) Any other action that you can do for one object should be able to be done for many objects from a search page (or folder)   There are product ideas submitted for each one of these but I think they all need changing. Some references to other Product Ideas for more details: Rename: http://communities.ptc.com/ideas/1982/communities.ptc.com/ideas/1982   Renaming multiple objects in Windchill 10.0 Rename: http://communities.ptc.com/message/186891#186891 Set State: http://communities.ptc.com/ideas/1597           Set State for multiple objects Set State: http://communities.ptc.com/ideas/1597#comment-6727 (to be implemented in 10.1 M040)        Set State for multiple objects - PTC Community PS. Another example that falls into this category but was not listed above:   5. Purge Non-latest Iterations (Added per comment below on 6/18/2014)   PPS: Crossed out broken links and provided new ones.   [JZ 12 Jan-16 I am going to close out this idea.  If other actions are needed please open ideas specific to those actions.  It is difficult to try to track these broad "bucket" idea categories] ... View more

The OOTB "lock" transition can only be used in Promotion Requests. Please implement it also for other Change Objects.   Goal: Lock the edit of the resulting objects (WTParts, EPMDocuments, WTDocuments) as long as the Change Notice is in state "Under Review". That would force the user to do a "rework" so that the resulting objects are unlocked again and the process runs through all needed steps (validations, reviews, update attributes...) again. ... View more

Provide the ability for administrator or user to create and save a configuration filter that can be used during Checkout/Add To Workspace. This saved configuration filter could then optionally be set via the existing Preferences: Preferences:                                                               Current Values:                       Additional Value: Set Configuration for Add To Workspace                   Default/Latest/As_Stored              <User Defined> Set Configuration for Check Out                              Default/Latest/As_Stored              <User Defined> Background: We have a need for Latest Released data (or In Work if no version has been Released).  By giving the option of saving the configuration filter, it would allow our needs to be met and also allow for other customers to meet their own needs. There are also some default configuration filters (Latest/Baseline/Promotion Request/Baseline), but these too do not provide Latest Released.  Configuration filters can currently be created each time (8 clicks?), but not stored for use again in the Checkout/Add To Workspace dialog.  From the structure page on a checked in object, there IS the option to Save a configuration filter, but these do not show up during Add to Workspace or Checkout, also these cannot be set via the Preferences shown above. ... View more

Allow upload of modified but not check-out object to server-side workspace. The user might have changed the object without check-out for many reasons, eg: by accident, for trying out alternative design, etc. Currently, only new or check-out object can be uploaded to the server-side workspace and it is quite puzzling why modified non-checkout object is not able to upload. The server-side workspace serves a few purposes: 1) As a "backup" of users work in case if the client machines has crashes 2) Allow user to goes to another machine and able to download his work to another machines without exporting to a external drive and carry It seems like the "blocking" of uploading the modified and not-checkout object goes against the use of server-side workspace ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Aerospace, Digital Thread Enablement, Engineering and Documentation 2. What version of Windchill are you currently running? 11.1.20 moving to 12.0.2 soon. 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Currently trying to associate Documents  to Part objects after the Part object is Released. Adding the document as a referenced by Part or Described by Part drive the Part object to be iterated. The document in question does not affect the Part design, the Part design impacts this downstream Document. There exists a "References Documents" capability on a Document to another Document. Requesting similar capability for Doc to Part.   This can be done by customization/high configuration, but requesting OOTB capability. This would also go along well with a combined Reference table. Adding an additional direction of reference. 4. What is the use case for your organization? Downstream document referencing a Design, but not impacting the design. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Would enable traceability without requiring the Part to "own" the document. ... View more

From CS146447 Since Windchill 10.2 the value of PTC_WM_CREATED_BY and PTC_WM_MODIFIED_BY contains a bracket with the information “(<username>:<organization name>)" PTC_WM_CREATED_BY and PTC_WM_MODIFIED_BY are system generated parameters in Creo Parametric The values of PTC_WM_CREATED_BY and PTC_WM_MODIFIED_BY will be filled by Windchill during upload The preference User unique identifier display format controls the format string with the following options: 1. User name and organisation 2. Email Please add a third option to this preference to be "User name" only to restore pre-10.2 behavior. ... View more

Whatever the icons set on WTPart soft types, the uwgm always display the grey one in the WS view. ... View more

Why does the number of objects in a WindChill Workspace have such an impact on performance while working in Pro/E or Creo Parametric?  Our top level assemblies contain more than 60,000 objects, but we can only efficiently work with under 3000 of them in the workspace.  Users are trained to remove objects in the workspace to get performance back when the number exceeds the threshold.  As an example, the simple function of expanding the model tree can take up to 5 seconds waiting for the assembly to be downloaded from the server because it currenlty doesn't exist in the workspace.  I want the missing files in the workspace to be downloaded at the same rate whether there are 10 or 10000 objects existing in the workspace.   ... View more

If you are reviewing out of date data, the Windchill object details page shows the text 'Go To Latest". Please make the "Go To Latest" text stand out more - perhaps make the text/cell red and blink. The bottom line - make it more obvious to the user that they are looking at old data. ... View more

...one of the last gaps stil open from the Pro/Intralink to Windchill migration. Many CAD users checkin files they have worked on for the sake of promoting them to a higher state. It would be so easy for the users if they would have a "Checkin&Promote" icon in the Workspace that combines Upload, Checkin and startup of the Promotion wizard with the initially selected objects (only in case the upload and checkin was successfull). Currently the users have to go to the Commonspace and locate the objects by search or browse or via the Info Page to start the promote - a time consuming stupid action. In Intalink 3.x this option was available and the users loved it. I have no glue why it was removed and why we do not ask PTC to put it back again. My users would love it - what about you? ... View more

Wouldn't it be nice to know (or filter out) objects where the component is no longer used in a Where Used Report or in the information page for CAD Documents?  It would be nice to at least have a column to identify if it's the latest or what the latest version is. ... View more

Subject: Modification of the Option Pool and Option Set behaviour.   Today the option pool management is linked to a product or library context level. The option set is at the same level and is created by selection in this pool. I can have multiple option set and I can assign them to a product or to a wtpart.     It could be interesting to change the behaviour of the option pool My ideas are the following : I wanted to manage several option pool, at different level for example common option in an option pool at the organisation level and specific option in an another option pool at the product level. It will be necessary to manage option pool independently from the product context level. And the option set could be created by select option in the both (org option pool and product option pool) with inheritance capabilities.    See examples below:         ... View more