Windchill Ideas

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

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

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

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

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 Windchill 11.0 and likely beyond, if you are using both a Change Notice Template and the tick box for "Propagate from Change Request", if the Change Request has attachments, then the attachments do NOT propagate to the Change Notice (even though the attributes do).  If you are NOT using a Change Notice template, the attachments DO propagate.   The problem is that if you propagate and THEN apply the template, the attachments will be REMOVED.  It is as if the "template" overrides the functionality to propagate attachments from the Change Request.   In practicality, this is bug that needs to be corrected or at least provided a work-around.  I am listing this as a feature request per instruction from Gaurav Amrutkar re PTC TS case C14224709. ... View more

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

The CATIA publishing process currently does an automatic update of the CATIA data. Our view is that the decision to do an update or not should be the sole choice of the designer before checking-in data to Windchill. The created lightweight data will thus be the geometrical view the designer intends to convey. In our case, in-work data is seldom updated while work with constraints is ongoing, whereas released data is of course updated. We therefore need to have the update disabled in the publishing process to have consistency between the stored native and created lightweight representations. ... View more

As for any WTPart create UI in PDMLink , when creating a new WTPart with Auto Associate in a Workspace, we should be able to choose which sub type of WTPart ... We can only choose the View, End Item, Configurable ... but not the type .... If the pre selected type could be customised by a java user exit like for the AutoPartCretor.... ... View more

This is an enhancement request to add site level Security Label Agreement Objects (AO) to be created to grant access to multiple containers.  This would allow the ability to create an AO at the site level that could grant access to more than one full container.  Right now this can only be done at the product container level. Scenario: Your company policy is to restrict Contract / Temp employees by default from accessing data outside the contact they were hired for.  Today this requires one agreement object per contract employee per container. If you company has hundreds of contact employees and thousands of containers this becomes extremely labor intensive to create.  Not to mention the system overhead with having that many AOs in the system. ... View more

Not all CAD filenames are well-managed. For example, CATIA files stored in a legacy system or files systems, created by suppliers or other departments... A Customer would like to load such CAD files to Windchill according to a certain naming rule. It would be helpful to add custm loading mechanism, if rename API could be supported. ... View more

Hi Team,   We are at Philips using Navigate 1.5.2 based on Thingworx 8.0.1 platform to be connected to Windchill Cluster. We have our servers in AWS cloud with load balancer (ELB) at front. We would like to have formally approved solution from ptc supporting Thingworx Navigate connected to Windchill via load balancer (ELB).   Currently this is not formally supported by ptc. Reference case :  https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article?n=CS269028   Requesting such feature that would help Philips to enable this IOT platform for future use.   Thanks, Eknath Padekar partner.eknath.padekar@philips.com   ... View more