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July 23, 2024
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Difference between thingworx and thingworx navigate

  • July 23, 2024
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Hello,

   What is the difference between thingworx and thingworx naviagte. I am working on thingworx but thingworxnavigate is also a platform or how does it works. Would anyone clear my confusion please

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BenLoosli23-Emerald III
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July 23, 2024

My $.02 worth.

Thingworx Navigate is an application for viewing drawings from Windchill. It is built on the base Thingworx platform which itself is built on Windchill.

Much like Windchill PDMLink is an application built on the Windchill development platform.

We looked at Thinkworx Navigate to replace/supplement CreoView, but after looking into it and our usage, we dropped the support after 2 years and took the hit for the cost and maintenance fees paid and never used.

Rocko
Rocko19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
July 23, 2024

Small correction on this: ThingWorx is not built on Windchill.

 

ThingWorx is a platform you can create applications on, mostly IIoT apps, but it is not tied to IIoT. Navigate is one product that is built on the ThingWorx platform and focuses around Windchill use cases. Navigate provides a framework for role-based apps, and viewing drawings is one of them. You can create your own Navigate apps when your license allows.

While ThingWorx licensing comes from IoT side (SCO or SCP licenses), Navigate licenses are driven from Windchill.

More on Navigate's capabilities is here: https://www.ptc.com/en/products/thingworx/navigate

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    MA873117416-PearlAuthor
    16-Pearl
    July 24, 2024

    Thanks @Rocko for further information but have you ever come acrossed the usecase that "We want pvz (ilu) file directly from windchill to vuforia studio " so we dont have to upload this file again and again in the vuforia studio instead it works dynamically. In  windchill we save pvz file after making animation so i want kind automation that these group of files belong to this experience and then we can choose from drop down in vuforia studio. Now i know that it needs to be working with thingworx platform. I got different answers like as below ...for this use case as it is huge area... 

     

     

    Vuforia Studio---> Thingworx Navigate ---> Windchill (Rest Api)

    Vuforia Studio ---> Thingworx (Single Sign On)---> Windchill

     

    As the Thingworx Navigate just use the Windchill RestAPI and it is Thingworx aplication that use SSO authentication with Windchill..

    So one can write own function and use the restApi without Navigate but there u just need to connect the Thingworx to the Windchill. 

    And yes it can be easier to you if the Navigate is installed because there are many examples how to get information from Windchill.

     

    What can be the feasible/straight solution here? I am confused and please also mention about the usecase that even is it valid or not. In the next year.

     

    In my company we will have automation in windchill like if  ASM/PRT file would be updated then the whole process runs itself like it creates itself PVZ source file then i think if pvz ilu is there it would be also updated automatically ..so like a process.. 

     

    my goal is to make our experiences dynamic and these pvz(ilu) files would be fetched and run dynamically in the experiences. Any insights?

     

     

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