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Hello, is there any good practice how to create simulation copy/version of model using windchill? Now I'm doing it by copying all the parts. So it creates independent model which i don't like. Is there any way how to connect/ create a simulation version of the model using windchill?    

I am getting this error when i am trying to check in an assembly. It is not a new assembly though.  Error Message : " Action cannot be completed as it cannot build association with Part that you do not have access to.You must gain access to the Part or the Part must be deleted from the database."  I do have access for the folder locations. But it seems something else is missing. Can you help to resolve this.     

Hi all, My company recently started using Windchill. Whenever I export a PDF, the PDF created gets its own part number. However, I would like to have the PDF exported as an attachment to the part referenced in the drawing. Alternatively, I would like to have the PDF exported to an attachment to a WTPart. Is there any way to do this? Please let me know! Thank you in advance for your help!  Thank you,Jeff 

After doing the upgrade to Windchill, now running 12.0.2.8, I am trying to follow the steps outlined in this CS article on running Windchill as a service. Article - CS17799 - How to run Apache, Tomcat, Windchill Directory Server and Windchill as Microsoft Windows service in Windchill (ptc.com) The build says it is successful but does issue warnings when running.  PTC tech support sent me this CS article: Article - CS357485 - After executing ant -f bin/gwt.xml command on Windchill shell throws warnings WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred in Windchill PDMLink (ptc.com) However, When I go to start the service, it gives an error and will not start. I can start Windchill manually from a command prompt, but that does no good if IT does a server reboot overnight and I have to manually restart Windchill. Has anyone else had this issue with Windchill12.0? I did not have any issues with all prior versions of Windchill (7, 9. 9.1, 10, 11, 11.1) that I have installed.

As a follow up to my posting earlier, Post upgrade - Create Substitute action missing for user , I am questioning why this was necessary at all. Did PTC err in how this works? Here is my reasoning.   When creating a substitute link, you need to have check out rights to the assembly part. This is a 3 way link between the assembly part, the component and the replacement part. In my case, the components are library parts where the users have read only rights. To add a library component to an assembly BOM, you do not need modify rights to the component, only read rights. It follows that those users should be guests in that library which is what I have configured. Those same users are members of the context where the assembly part lives.     Now, the issue was the default rights for guests in a library does not allow you to create anything. This includes substitute links from what I can tell. I had to add an ACL for guests to allow creation and modification. Th

Summary:I am following the PTC support article to setup a Generic CAD Worker to create a pdf viewable using accoreconsole.exe (AutoCAD) of an AutoCAD .dwg file that exists as a CAD Document in Windchill. I followed all setup steps and am able to see my worker on-line. When I attempt to start the worker and publish a job (step 10) nothing is published. I don't think this is an issue with the AutoCAD portion (which PTC mentions they will not support). I think this is an issue with my Generic worker setup. Observations:When I start the worker from the Worker Agent Administration, I get a worker log that appears to show a successful start. (worker log at start log attached)I see successful communication messages in the cadagent log on the windchill server for this worker. (cadagent log attached)When I publish a .dwg from Windchill I get a job log (viewed in the WVS Monitor) and a Generic CAD worker log (found in the folder setup following the article).The job log reports an

How can I re-assign a task in a workflow for Approve/Deny to a specific role, lets say CA1 role, instead of a specific user?  

Hi,I believe views of WTPart, "Design" for example, are mandatory information for consistent data in Windchill, but one collegue explained he show some installations that do not use those view. Until now, I though a part without view would be "corrupted data", imported thanks a spreadsheet.  Are the view "Design/Manufacturing/etc." simply a recommanded practice of PTC ? What would be the drawback of configuring per default no view on the WTPart (when no MPMLink is used)? I really interesseted in your opinions!

Hello,   I have a WTpart attribute which stores the corresponding ERP number ERP_number. I would like to show this attribute on the EPM document info page for information only. So I created an alias attribute on the EPM document with the following mapping:   reference^wt.part.WTPart~ERP_number Unfortunatly, this isn't working. Is the mapping correct?   When I set the attribute on the WTpart, the EPM document is potentially not checked out. I could map the WTpart attribute to the EPM document master and map this again to the EPM document. Seems to me a bit overdone for such a simple requirement...is this the way to go?   Thanks a lot for any hints on how to solve this.   Best Chris

I am using Windchill PDMLink Release 10.2Group has been created in Windchill for mfg team and rules have been set to restrict access/view for "Obsolete" state Cad data, file.functionality is not working and user defined group (mfg/Sales) are able to view previous "released " state files . while they should not have access to complete data once obsoleted.

I am having issues in deleting Saved filters in Workspace. I am getting error "Not able to delete as it is not owned by you". I have admin privileges, even then I am receiving same error.  Hence, how can we delete Saved filters in "Add to Workspace" option.  

 Where is the location of the file that contains the information for the settings listed in Preference Management in Windchill PDM link 11.1? I created a new user in Creo Parametric 7.0.6.0 and my new user preferences in Preference Management are only show default settings.  I would like to import my settings from my other user Preference Management settings into this new user account.  Is there a way to import these settings from my old user account into my new user account?Perhaps I am not asking the right question with a location, how does one go about exporting the Preference Management settings and importing them for an individual user?    

Where can I find the documentation for  Windchill   Architecture on AWS ? Where can I find the Windchill PLM on AWS Documentation ? Need Architecture design to understandWhere can I find the Windchill PLM on AWS Documentation ? Need Architecture design to understandWhere can I find the Windchill PLM on AWS Documentation ? Need Architecture design to understand     

Can we make use of "CreateChangeRequestFormProcessor" which I assume to be OOTB to trigger a workflow? I have an action that has no .jsp but this FormProcessor in the custom-actions. When the action is clicked, the change request UI shows up as wells a workflow is initiated. I'm just curious how.

Hi All, Like every Engineering Change Notice/Order.  The from/to table is very close to the affected and resulting table.  Some companies like to set state/transition the affected table of objects to obsolete based on disposition and effectivity.  Also, there are business rules where you can only put released items in the affect table of an CN. While the new or new revisions of objects get production released and applied also based on effectivity, the affected table of objects can remain released or get set to obsolete/supersede based on the disposition.  This is the closed-loop process of a change request to a change notice.  The resolution of a change request is both the obsolescence of the affected table and release of the resulting table in the change activity/notice.    This should be out-of-the box functionality.  It seems that the functionality is not complete and needs customization to complete the simple very common process.

I saw this briefly in my rehearsals but it seemed to go away on its own. Not sure where to look for the issue. Normally, in our old system, when you browse a classification and then get directed to the search results, the attributes of that node display in the search results at the far right. I know I saw it during the upgrade that it stopped at the classification path but somehow, when I checked later, it resolved itself. Not sure I did anything to fix it.  Facets work find and I am able to use them to filter further but I am not sure why it would not show the attributes. I am using the "Default Part View" I do not believe there were edits to it. This is version 12.0 and we upgraded from 11.1.    

           

I have a user who has Windchill Advanced license and does not have any other assigned profile. They reported that they cannot see the actions under Manage Replacements to create a substitute. I can but I am admin. They could before in 11.1 system so I suspect something with licensing or upgrade.  We turned on jcaDebug and saw this: and I looked up the following article: https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS309967?source=search I will check logs and but for the resolution on this, you can't edit the license profiles if that truly was the cause. I am sure the user has rights to create subs. They did check out the Assembly Part. Any other places to try?    

Sometimes we need to use Creo Elements direct and WWGM offline in situation where we aren't in the company and we don't have internet to access the Windchill server with vpn. Our software:Creo Elements Direct Modeling 20.1WWGM 11.1 M020 CPS11 The problem is that when we try to open the WWGM without any connection to our server, this message appear: "server not available at the moment".  I haven't find any option to force the current workspace in a kind of "offline mode". So I wonder if it is possible to do this or unfortunately you always have to open a connection to the server.   

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Also to add to this ...Products, Projects, and Libraries can now be soft typed with attributes editable in the OOTB UI meaning you could associate a product template per product soft type - even name them the same.You can edit the JSP for the product list page (where you see all active or guest member listing of products) to make the showcustomviewlink=true and you can have your product or other container soft attributes displayed.Anyone who wants to use this on existing products, email me for directions.Product templates are good for kicking off different configurations, including domains, just be mindful of the level of work to possibly reconfigure existing data should the need arise.Multi organizations can also be used and can be configured to disallow hosting of products or other containers. Your user's Org I'd ref in principal admin can be used to associate users together and also add them as members to a container, but automatically be read only without further ACL access. This g

I am exploring option to complete work item using a Java or Inforengine tasks. Thingworx has out of the box CompleteWorkItems service. It does not take Voting ( Approve / Reject) as an input parameter.  So I am wondering if anyone has explored completing the workitem with a Vote option in WIndchill.Thanks for your help.Preeti

Doing a bit of house keeping. When I pull active user report, I get 6 users back that are pending from what I can tell in the WTUser table. They are not in my LDAP and were created over 10 years ago. I am looking to clear them out. I check all current and delete projects and I cannot see them. I do not see them part of any membership. The article below says you can link them by creating a user with the same email address. this may only be possible for 1 of them since the others have email addresses like "g" and "jr". It looks like there was a parsing error and their name got split in many users. https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS38011?source=search I believe this was related to an old project where you were able to invite users by email. These always show up in my Active User report. Should I just flip the DISABLED bit to 1 and call it a day?  

I just ran into an interesting "feature" with the PDF Quick Access Starter extension. This adds a column that allows users to one-click access published PDF representations instead of having to go through the Representations table. So it's a time-saver, for sure. However for office documents run through the Office publisher, the Chrome tab matches the filename of the PDF (xxxx-xxxxx-xxx_something.pdf) as the PDFs open with the Adobe Acrobat extension. The same PDF opened in Edge shows the tab name as 0000-00000-000_something.pdf, where the PN attribute is transcribed to all zeros. When I install the Adobe Acrobat extension in Edge, things go back to normal.  I don't see any settings in the extension that would cause this difference. Are there are browser settings that display published data differently? Are there settings on the Office CAD worker that would cause this difference?   

I am able to check out, modify, and check in a Released file. I am creating multiple Iterations of Released file. I do have some admin privileges, but I don't think I should be allowed to do what's described. Released Version/Iteration should be locked for Users. I don't even know where to start looking for cause. Windchill 11.1 Mo2o. Thanks.