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GianVal15-Moonstone
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December 20, 2021
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Vuforia, thingworx, and Windchill workflow integration

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Hello,
I'm trying to figure out how to properly connect and set up the information flow between Vuforia, thingworx, and Windchill.
My company works with windchill PLM. Here, as you know, we store relevant information about products and projects.
I intend to structure an AR experience in which the user could click on any component/part of the represented 3D entity (starting from an imported pvz, of course) and retrieve updated information from windchill database (ranging from documentation to useful files).
do you have any advice or updated guide addressing this workflow?

Many thanks

Best answer by pandersson

This is one way:

I expect you to have the partnumber from point  2 above

Create a service in you windchill connector mapped to ProdMgmt/Parts/getPart 

In $filter add your search criteria in this way:

Number eq '1231414'

This will give you the partinformation including the OID from Windchill, other services will give you related documents etc .

 

Or you can call the api direct but then you need to manage the authentication in another way.

/Windchill/servlet/odata/v4/ProdMgmt/Parts?%24filter=Number%20%20eq%20'0000000027'&%24count=false
Response:
{ "@odata.context": "http://......../Windchill/servlet/odata/v4/ProdMgmt/$metadata#Parts", "value": [ { "CreatedOn": "2018-12-06T12:47:33Z", "ID": "OR:wt.part.WTPart:758770", "LastModified": "2019-02-14T14:51:27Z", "AlternateNumber": null, "AssemblyMode": { "Value": "component", "Display": "Component" }, "BOMType": null, "CabinetName": "Default", "ChangeStatus": null, "CheckOutStatus": "", "CheckoutState": "Checked in", "Comments": "Assigned to operations in new build of process", "ConfigurableModule": { "Value": "standard", "Display": "No" }, "CreatedBy": "Jonas Ljungsten", "DefaultTraceCode": { "Value": "0", "Display": "Untraced" }, "DefaultUnit": { "Value": "ea", "Display": "each" }, "EndItem": false, "FolderLocation": "/Drone/Parts", "FolderName": "Parts", "GatheringPart": false, "GeneralStatus": null, "Identity": "Part - 0000000027, Frame_Battery, A.2 (Design)", "Latest": true, "LifeCycleTemplateName": "Basic", "ModifiedBy": "Dan Li", "Name": "Frame_Battery", "Number": "0000000027", "ObjectType": "Part", "OrganizationReference": "{\"type\":\"text\"}", "PhantomManufacturingPart": false, "Revision": "A", "ShareStatus": null, "Source": { "Value": "make", "Display": "Make" }, "State": { "Value": "INWORK", "Display": "In Work" }, "Supersedes": null, "TypeIcon": { "Path": "http://............./Windchill/wtcore/images/part.gif", "Tooltip": "Part" }, "Version": "A.2 (Design)", "VersionID": "VR:wt.part.WTPart:305207", "View": "Design" } ] }

 Full documentation of Windchill's RestApi can be found here: http://............./Windchill/netmarkets/html/wrs/doc.html

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pandersson14-Alexandrite
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December 20, 2021

I would approach it in this way.

  1. Setup you windchill connector
  2. use the method described here to expose data from the pvz-file http://support.ptc.com/help/vuforia/studio/en/#page/Studio_Help_Center%2Fcad_metadata_api.html
  3. use number (OID doesn't get thru in Illustrations) from step 2 as a key for the Windchill queries to get the Windchill info 

Per

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    GianVal15-MoonstoneAuthor
    15-Moonstone
    December 20, 2021

    please can you give me details about point #1?

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    pandersson14-Alexandrite
    14-Alexandrite
    December 20, 2021

    Thingworx WindchillSwaggerConnector gives you access to the restapi of Windchill.

    You may need to patch the windchill system to enable this, depends on the windchill version.

    This is used for Thingworx navigate, I would start with https://support.ptc.com/help/thingworx/navigate/r9.2/en/#page/ThingWorx_Navigate%2FInstall_License_and_Configure_ThingWorx_Navigate.html%23 to understand how to setup the connector.  

     

    (You need to have a license Navigate/Connected PLM/etc to do this)

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