Windchill Ideas

cascading attribute can be used as replacement for attribute having multiple conditional constraint, currently neither is supported by export / import from spreadsheet, which causes huge impact on customer daily work.    This is our TS case Import from Spreadsheet throws error "The value for attribute xxx must be one of the following []"   ... View more

Currently only Office 32-bit is only with Creo View Adapter. Now Microsoft Office is installed with 64-bit by default and it always has better performance with big files, please add 64-bit Office support with Creo View Adapter. ... View more

Many PTC customers require CAD data from their (end-)customers for the development of their products. Examples for PTC customers: * Manufacturers of automation solutions for machine tools in metal cutting * manufacturer of components and systems in aluminum die casting * Manufacturer of complete interior solutions for rail vehicles ... The CAD data provided by the end-customers are usually very extensive. PTC customers load them into Creo Parametric and save them in Windchill. In many cases, the data provided is more extensive than the data of the product to be developed. The engineer creates a huge amount of EPMDoc objects and structures that he does not actually need, but which often require a lot of administration. The engineer only needs the geometric representation, but not the objects and structures. In PTC´s Creo Elements/Direct product range, the concept of "inseparable assemblies" is available for Modeling (CAD) and Model Manager (PDM). An inseparable assembly acts like a zip file, containing all 3D geometry files. In CAD (Modeling) the CAD structures are visible, but not in PDM (Model Manager), where an inseparable assembly is just one single CAD data entry (equivalent to a Windchill EPMDoc). An "inseparable assemblies" concept for Creo Paramtric and WIndchill would be of great benefit to PTC customers. ... View more

Currently one can control the annotation default visibility at Creo View, but at PSB HTML5 visualization there is no way remove component level MBD visualizations to be displayed at assembly level. If one removes annotations from visualization recipe, then MBD initiative will be killed.   Product idea: provide control to HTML5 visualization at PSB which enable annotations to be removed.   Tech support case: C15226947. ... View more

Assigned usage Expression available in PSE View but not display in multi level BOM report   PSE View :         Multi Level BOM Report :       ... View more

I n the Product Structure Browser it is possible save user specific filters and system-wide filters that can be shared with all users. If a user applies a filter this is stored for some time for a specific structure, but it will not be kept when opening another structure. For some use-cases it is beneficial to always start with specific filter other than the default filter. At our Windchill Installation we use WTPart View Versions to grant specific user groups an alternate "reduced" view to WTParts. This is how we represent an internal customer-supplier relationship. The internal supplier is maintaining the Design View, while the customer is using the "Reduced View" in their structures. This reduced view does not have a BOM, but has for instance a simplified representation attached or specific documents. To see this reduced view the user has to set a specific filter to not see the WTPartMaster in the structure. If a default  filter that lists first the Design View and than the downstream Reduced View could be configured, this customer-supplier interaction would be more seamless.   ... View more

Today, in the case of Creo Elements Direct/Modeling, Modeling is restarted each time the WVS creates visualization data. This takes approx. 30 seconds, so that only a maximum performance of 2 - 3 parts per minute (approx. 150/h) can be achieved. In the case of Creo Parametric, the Creo process remains running and thus reaches approx. 700 visualizations/h. In addition, the termination of Modeling and WGM does not work properly. Processes remain, cannot be started anymore, interactive error messages remain etc. - all this leads to the fact that one must constantly supervise and care for the CAD Worker for Modeling. The problem multiplies because the poor performance means that up to 10 times more CAD workers have to be set up than with Creo Parametric. Today it is not possible to operate a reasonable visualization infrastructure with Creo Elements Direct/Modeling.   ... View more

Since java seems to be a security issue for the client machines, all java applets should be removed and exchanged by JSP (or compareable functions). It should be easily possible to replace atleast the most of the common used java applets. It also reduces the software complexity if on the client side java must not be installed anymore. See also: PTC Announcement from 25-Nov-2013 Updates regarding Java 7 Client Support with PTC Windchill Solutions ... View more

When a designer checkout a model and work on it for a week without checking in but save and upload to his workspace there is no way to retrieve or collect that data if that designer cannot access the system anymore. assume that the designer get serios injury and needs to be on hospital for few weeks, an admin could access his workspace and checkin all the object so that another user can continue working on them. currently this is not possible but my customer would be really happy to have this. instead of doing undo checkout to his work, it would be nice to checkin his changes in the place of him. ... View more

Add the "Edit" ability to Promotion Request so that an author can add/remove promotion objects. This would also be helpful if Doc Control I was added into the process as a check, they would need Edit. ... View more

The admin shoud be able to define the column width in the workspace. In the commonspace this is possible since Windchill PDMLink 10.1 - but in the Workspace the value for <width> is always "0" and a change of the value dosn't have any influence. ... View more

Current Behaviour: The Download Service can create CAD Parameters and fill them with system attribute values from the CAD Document or associated WTPart. Examples are "PTC_WM_VERSION" or "PTC_MODIFIED_BY". When using the WGM (for 3rd Party CAD applications), there is a set of parameters that can be configured via the Preference Manager for each CAD Application seperately - except for Creo Parametric. This means, that for WGM managed CAD Applications, there is a larger set of parameters that can be downloaded to the CAD file. Proposed behaviour: It would be very good if all the parameters which can automatically be pushed via WGM to CAD Applications could also be pushed to Creo Parametric via a simple configuration. This would be extremely helpful for the following parameters: PTC_WM_PART_NUMBER; PTC_WM_PART_NAME; PTC_WM_NAME; PTC_WM_NUMBER. Ideally, the full set of parameters listed under the "Workgoup Manager Client / Mapping System Attributes and File Properties" should be provided also for usage in Creo Parametric ... View more

In a CAD centric setup of PDMLink we have chosen to have the attributes  "Filename", "Name" and "Number" in sync. CAD users coming from Creo and Pro/Intralink environment are not used to the differences of "Filename", "Number" and "Name". They usually only care about the "Filename" as this is what they need for working with Creo Parametric (Window Management and Model Tree). As soon as the three attributes get out of sync due to a Save As or Rename action the users get totally confused. Some tables in PDMLink cannot be configured to display "Filename" - they can only show "Name" or their Table Displays are not configurable at all. This is the point where wrong datasets are selected for actions. Proposed Solution: A general property to sync these three attributes, show one of them and hide the other two from the UI is needed. E.g. "Filename" is master and "Number" and "Name" are hidden. The UI for Rename and Save As should incorporate these settings and only show the "master" attribute. Currently we have to use heavy customization to ensure the synchronization during upload, check in, Save As and Rename. ... View more

We would like to extend the use of PartsLink to include WTDocument. ... View more

When analyzing a change impact on a part, we go to the "Where used" tab to see the parents on the part and analyzing the deeping of the impact. But we can have important amount of usage (often more than 20, sometimes more than 50) whole important percentage are obsolete and does not need to be analyzed. Unfortunately, it is impossible to display the LifeCycle State in the "Where used" tab ; this impacts significantly the efficiency of the analyse. ... View more

Please add the functionality to create a string attribute with WYSIWYG Editor (Rich Text). The length of the attribute should be more then 4000 characters and it should be able to have images included. It would be really nice to document e.g. a Problem Report. So the user don't need to create any document, save it to the hard drive, upload it as attachment. And the next user needs to download it and open it to read. This feature could be a lot helpful also for discussions, Change Management, CAPA, Non Conformance, Customer Experience, etc. Exactly the same  features like creating an idea in this PTC User Community. ... View more

The information about linked Design Review or other review object should be shown on the detail page in Change Tab. ... View more