Windchill Ideas

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Any manufacturing industry with assembly steps using tools on multiple operations and multiple workstations. 2. What version of Windchill are you currently running? 12.1.2.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. In a process plan, we sometimes need to use the same tool (like a manufacturing jig for exemple) to assemble components across multiple operations and across multiple workstations. In this type of use case, the tool is mobile and translate in the shopfloor. In the process plan, we need to insert the tool in each operation and move it in the right position (using Creo View MCAD or using the viewable toolbar to capture the position) so the viewable is good in the process plan player and ready for illustration. This process is time consuming as we need to do it for each operation using the same tool.   It would be nice to have a tool to copy/paste a tool between operations including the position matrix, or to simply copy/paste the position itself. 4. What is the use case for your organization? See previous explanation 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? A lot of time savings for such use cases. ... View more

Windchill Admin should be able to get a notification when a CAD worker is set to "Fails to Start". The article CS197982 allows to set properties to auto-restart a worker, however it doesn't guarantee that it will restart. Especially in large implementation that rely on heavily on CAD workers it is a necessity to have the ability to get such notifications.   ... View more

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. The Customer design and build packaging equipment for pharmaceutical, consumer, nonwoven and life science products. They have more than 2.800 employees in more than 10 subsidaries world wide and have around 350 designers working with PTC's CAD and PLM products. As a consultant and implementer i support the customer 2. What version of Windchill are you currently running? Windchill 12.0.2.4 / Workgroup Manager 12.1.1.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. It is not possible to open CAD objects of a substructure directly from the "Structure" tab of the EPM document in WWGM. It is always necessary to jump to the View Information in order to open the object. It should be possible to choose "Open In <CAD System>" in the "Structure" tab on the EPM Document in WWGM.   4. What is the use case for your organization? In Windchill, navigating between the EPM document (model/drawing) and WTPart requires a lot of mouse actions. It would significantly reduce the number of actions and simplify navigation if the CAD objects could be opened quickly via the context menu. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? simplified navigation in windchill Increasing the ease of use of the workgroup manager more effectiveness and faster work ... View more

When setting Visualization Service to publish Positioning Assemblies , there's no way to generate a thumbnail   Need a way to generate this in order to have thumbnails on EPMDocument and WtParts info pages     ... View more

Hello, up to CreoView Adapters 6.1, when EPMDoc drawing was published to DXF, plain DXF was created for single sheet drawings without shaded views. In CVA 7.0, DXF is always published as ZIP file and log was included. In CVA 7.1, log is no longer included, but DXF is still inside ZIP file, even if there is no reason for it. Please, restore functionality from CVA 6.x, because customers downloading or using DXF, they need additional steps to download ZIP, extract it and then they can use it. Before, they can use DXF directly from Windchill. So, I don't request new functionality, just to restore old, perfectly good one. Thanks. ... View more

Based on a archived idea I would rise a hand to implement it old idea Copying Resources from Search or Browse and Paste in Process Plan  From advanced search it would be very usable to be able to add a resources to PP.  Also the article exists that describes this needs.  https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS196520   Steps : 1. Create Process Plan 2. Create Operations 3. Assign Parts 4. Access Resource Library  5. Copy a resource from Library (This can also be achieved by searching the resources & copying the resource) 6. In Process Plan “Structure” Tab navigate to “Processing Resources” 7. Click on Paste icon to Paste the Resource ... 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

OOTB attributes are only synched from CAD Doc to WTpart on check in or build operation. Due to requirements for searching, workspace listings, cad integration which can not be solved by the ModelAttributDownload Delegate several attributes need to be persisted on both objects. In this case attributes can get out of synch due to differnt user groups for wtpart or cad or just by user error. A bi-directional synchonization for certain attributes would be a great enhancement to improve data quality. Challenge is to break the circular reference when to publish from WTPart -> CAD -> WTPart but it is possible by some evaluation if update is really needed. ... View more

All customer specific Model Manger environments have been extended by years of customizing and additional applications. We are talking about complex ERP integrations, interfaces to purchasing and sales portals, ECAD and CAM integrations, automated manufacturing data preparation and optimized access via internet technology. All these business critical processes have to work again in a similar way after the migration to Windchill. An additional complexity by migration in 11.2 and subsequent migration to 12.0 or future versions is no longer manageable. MME and Bulk Migrator support for MM 20.3 and Windchill 12.02.0+ is a must for future migration projects. ... View more

E.g. for Change Task Collect affected / resulting Objects some users need a Custom Table view that displays the Lifecycle State of the collected objects.   Table View cannot be customized.   ... View more

In 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

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

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

I would like to import WTparts Design and Manufacturing Structure 1:1 as initial state. Article CS314633 describes that it is not part of functionality.   The api to create relevant New Downstream Branch is missing.    Please provide the api to create new Dowstream Branch or Part programmatically as it is possible in the MAPSB.   Thank you so much.   ... 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

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Business description: Design and manufacturing of logistics systems. Mainly development of automobile production lines. Affiliation: Belongs to Manufacturing Department. Create an MBOM from an EBOM created by Engineering Department. Arrange a part by transferring MBOM information from Windchill to a production control system, which is another system. 2. What version of Windchill are you currently running? Windchill PDMLink 11.2.1.2 Windchill MPMLink 11.2.1.2 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. This is a problem that occurs when you propagate a change (a part added in an EBOM) to an MBOM. When you select a part added in an EBOM from "Propagate Upstream Changes" in Manufacturing Associative Part Structure Browser and execute "Propagate changes to downstream", the EBOM will be copied to the MBOM side. Instead of copying the EBOM, we want to have a new downstream part created on the MBOM side.   4. What is the use case for your organization? (With the desired behavior described above,) when you add multiple parts on the EBOM side, new downstream parts can be added to the MBOM side all at once. With the current behavior, we need to take the following steps to create new downstream parts one by one, which takes a lot of time and effort: ①Search for a part added on the EBOM side. ②Search for the parent of the added part on the EBOM side --> Select the MBOM corresponding to the parent of the EBOM. ③Select the added part on the EBOM side and drag and drop it to the MBOM. ④Select "New Part" from "Options". 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Since we are designing automobile production lines, the number of parts is large and the hierarchy is complicated, and there is a risk in the work itself of accurately propagating changes (parts added on the EBOM side to an MBOM. Currently, changes on the EBOM side are not accurately propagated to the MBOM side, and due to designers' mistakes, problems occur when propagating parts added on the EBOM side to the MBOM side, which leaves some parts not arranged. Also, for the above reason, users are showing reluctance to manage MBOMs in Windchill. By making the above improvement for the problem, it will be possible to reduce users' time and effort and the risk of leaving parts not arranged. ... View more