Team Center for ProE Files

[Dan_Harlan]

Along the lines of the good discussion about Agile EC, I'd like to ask
the same question regarding Team Center. What are the experiences out
there for using Team Center?



My exposure: we have a customer that uses TC for ProE and I have been
through their training. A few issues I picked out include;

- Interrupted saving to TC (upload/checkin) can result in
corrupted datasets (implies to me the architecture does not use a server
side cache with validation)

- Ability to check in instances without checking in the generic

- Allows 'Save Up' of an assembly without including new or
modified components

- Save As does not reset the revision of a model

- Including component drawings during top level assembly fetch
requires special technique





Dan Harlan
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[SimonLucas]

Unless things have changed drastically since I last used Pro/E with TCe (which is possible), then re-naming was also a real pain in the butt.

At that time it was limited to a command line operation and had to be done on each item individually and in the correct order. If you made one mistake it was back to the drawing board - and that was with a TCe guy on-site actually modifying the code as we tried......

The interrupted upload issue proved to be a big problem also due to the corruption issue you have already mentioned.

End conclusion - no 3rd party system will handle a CAD apps data as well as the system from the same manuafcurer. Windchill deos a great job of handling Pro/E as you would expect but even then there are certain things that are still far from perfect. If PTC can't get it right every time, then 3rd party suppliers are always going to have an issue.

We see similar things with Windchill when handling CATIA, UG & Solidworks data. It works reasonably well, but nowhere nearas smoothly as with Pro/E data.

Simon Lucas