How to mass populate rename fields in Windchill

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April 15, 2026
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I need to populate the New Number field for thousands of parts/assemblies in Windchill. See attached example: The New Number simply needs to be the string between the first underscore and the file extension of the File Name field (red font). I hope I don’t have to individually copy paste each of these.

CAD Data Mgmt

Best answer by HelesicPetr

Hi @garettpatria

If your xxxx string has a same size, then you can use the ? character in the mass rename function.

The one ? is equal to a character.

Example ???_ABC.??? to *

then the result is ABC

PS: you can not use the * char because the system always chose the first one to keep it as a result :D

avillanueva

23-Emerald I

I am not sure something that can be done in that UI given the sheer volume you are dealing with. The tool does have a way to do some simple patterns. I would recommend using a command line rename script to handle this. I have a few I wrote for this very case. Feed it a CSV file and let it chunk away at it. Knowledge base has this this article:

Which API can be used to change or rename the identity of several Objects in Windchill PDMLink