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16-Pearl
August 31, 2026
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Windchill Installation, It is just me??

  • August 31, 2026
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Hi there,

I am trying (hard) to install and migrate from WC 12.0 to WC 13.0.

Somehow, I managed to get through that 100+ step process of installing and migrating. 
But why does PTC makes it so complicate to “just” update their products?

Did they never head about docker? 

e.g. why are all customizations burried somewhere in sub-sub-folders all over the place.

Why do I have to copy configurations files manually from the source system to the target system at migration step 67?

I am missing something. Is is just me, who thinks that the whole PDM infrastructure ist based back in the early 90s?

Cheers /me

 

PS.: I am curious, if this post gets censored by PTC like my recent one.

 

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23-Emerald III
August 31, 2026

Technically going from Windchill 12.0 to 13.0, you are doing a new installation of 13.0 and then importing the data from 12.0.