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Hello, The manufacturing engineers at my company are looking for 3D plant layout software.  I am curious if any Windchill users have incorporated the data generated from such software into Windchill.  Or even if any of you have suggestions for this type of software based on your experiences. Thank you in advance for any information you can share. Regards, Joanna

My company finally upgraded from Pro Engineer Wildfire 4.0 with Windchill 9 to Creo 3.0 and Windchill 10.Before installing Creo on my laptop, I cleared my workspaces and deleted my cache. Creo is working and can find a license without issue. However, when I try to register the Windchill server under "server management", it fails to connect when I click "check" and then I am asked to check the server location. I know the URL is correct as it is working for my coworkers. I can access Windchill through Internet Explorer on my laptop also. I have tried reinstalling Creo, restarting my computer, and trying to connect with and without the wireless connection.I've tried researching this issue and the only solution I came across involved deleting the cache which I have done several times.I'm out of ideas. Can someone please help?thanks!

Reaching out to Navigate community 🙂 We are rolling out Thingworx Navigate app which will be used by pretty larger user base. We need to have some folks to go into Thingworx platform doing very specific tasks like managing users and user groups.    What is the best practices for such admin group for Thingworx Platform. I do not see any out of the box group where we can be leveraged.   thanks, Preeti

We are about to start a PartsLink implementation and am looking for anything people have learned from their own implementations.Did you start with the standard Windchill Classification schema and modify that or did you create your own from scratch?Things to avoid?Data loading approaches?Thanks,Steve D.

I think in my head I had a different idea on how SUMA worked.  So, if you have walked this path before, please let me know where the mine fields are.  I understand the part relationships between OEM, Manufacturer and Vendor Parts. We are adding this on to an existing system so I would assume that all my existing 300K parts are all considered OEM parts by that definition right?  Let's take the example of a COTS part like NAS620C10, a milspec washer.  This exists in our system currently and called out on BOMs.  If I wanted to apply AML to this, it would need to be a MFG part, a different type. Do I need to change the type on all of these existing parts?  It does not make much sense to leave the existing part as a OEM part and create a new MFG part linked to it.  Can MFG parts be called out directly on BOMs? This leads me to another observation: Creating Parts just got a whole lot more complicated. Do you then block part creation and leave that for an ad

Has anyone found a good way to find accidental revisions in Windchill or revisions that never made it back to a released state? It happens somewhat frequently that some objects accidentally get revised by someone and they didn't even know they did it. Or maybe a change was in progress and then the change was abandoned and the CAD was left. I've tried using advanced searches for this but I can't get the search to work - see screenshot below. Or is there a SQL query that would do the trick?  

Hello,When i try to move an object it gives me this error. It's location shows up as being in one of my personal cabinet. Part of the problem is that it is checked in."CRITICAL ERROR: this object is in a personal cabinet. Objects in a personal cabinet must be checked in before they can be moved."Currently using Wildfire 4.0 m210 with windchill 10.0 M020Thank YouDonald

Greetings, Wondering if it is possible to control who can see different BOM Views? We can create the new View in a location that has limited access, but would that restrict seeing the view in the part history tab. Would the restricted location also prevent users from revising the wrong view.  

We are on 11.2 and we keep having this issue where our Change Notice and Change Task numbers get out of sync.  We can not duplicate it or figure why it happens since there is nothing in the logs.  All of a sudden the numbers will go out of sync and a Change Notice number goes missing but the Change Task numbers stay sequential.  Does anyone know why this might be happening?  We do have multiple Notice and Task soft types.  We had it happen before in 11.0, but usually that was because someone created an extra task in a Notice just to see what it would do.  This has happened at least 3 times this year in 11.2.  Does anyone know why this might be happening?

Hello We want to migrate cad data from another system of windchill can we use wbm both system are of same version.   Regards,Dhananjay

Hi to all,   We use ACM approximately 7 years. We have a lots of ditas, image, document on this server.   Now, we decided to join Windchill SIM. I need your help about how can I transfer all content which are save ACM server to new Windchill SIM server   Could you help us.  

Hi All In the out-of-the-box apps, the users' recent parts are displayed for quick access. You get the most recent version of the part, except .. When the part has been revised in Windchill, the list of recent parts in Navigate does not get you the revised part. You could call this a bug .. In Windchill you get a warning in a red label at the top left. Is there an easy fix for this? One way is to repeat the search when the recent part is clicked. thanks Rick

This exception coming on wc11.1 only.   A persistence error occurred. System message follows:Nested exception is: wt.associationRules.AssociationValidationException: Removing an association between "Change Notice - 00001" and "Change Task - 00001" violates the required role constraint of "Association Rule - PTC000007". The association is required for "Change Notice - 00001".   Please check sample code as below :  // Get change Task here..QueryResult changeActivityList = ChangeHelper2.service.getChangeActivities(changenotice);while (changeActivityList.hasMoreElements()) { //get ChangeTask objChangeActivity2 changeActivity = (ChangeActivity2) changeActivityList.nextElement(); //get Affected objQueryResult qr2 = PersistenceHelper.manager.navigate(changeActivity,AffectedActivityData.ALL_ROLES, AffectedActivityData.class, false);while (qr2.hasMoreElements()) {AffectedActivityData affecteddata = (AffectedActivityData) qr2.nextElement();ChangeHelper2.service.deleteAffectedActiv

Big S1000D for Windchill news!   Whether you support projects on S1000D Issue 2.3, are about to take on a new Issue 5.0 #S1000D project, or manage data for any of the S1000D Issues in-between, you can now manage all of your data in Windchill with GPSL's S1000D for PTC Windchill.   Oh and everything S1000D still works if you migrate your data to the latest PTC Windchill 11.2.1 or 12.0 release!    Find out more here or get in touch here for help upgrading.

I do a weekly copy of my data vaults as part of a backup procedure. Once the vault is copied, I go into Windchill Utilities, File Administration and remove unreferenced files. By default the option is to delete these files, but I always do a move instead. Is there a preference setting to make move unreferenced files the default?

Hello ,I am working on the sql script where I will need to get the product team members and role information there is any way we can do that

Hello,   I have an info engine engine task registered which will be called when an interface sends any content to Windchill. I have written my task xml to generate the wsdl, but I want to know the necessity of adding webjects in the xml, because even after adding/removing the webjects I am getting the same wsdl. Please provide your inputs on the need of webjects.   Webject in my xml: <ie:webject name="Create-Group" type="GRP"><ie:param name="GROUP_OUT" data="feedback"/><ie:param name="DELIMITER" data="^"/><ie:param name="ELEMENT" data="output=<%=messageFromMyMethod%>"/></ie:webject>   Thanks in advance.   Regards, Sha

I am creating a new Role which I need to add to about 350 existing Products in my Windchill installation. It appears that my only option is to add that Role to each Product Team one Product at a time. And, or course, then I will need to add Members to that Role in each Product..., which also appears to be a "one Product at a time" ordeal. Has anyone discovered a method to add a new Role to MULTIPLE existing Product Teams all at once? Likewise with adding adding Members to that Role all at once across all the existing Product Teams. Note: For future Products, I am creating a new Product Template which will contain the new Role..., but adding the new Role to existing Products Teams quickly is a problem. Thanks in advance.

I need to look for duplicate models in my different Workspaces. How can I search all of my workspaces using Windchill.

Hello, I came across the ability to add a topic/discussion to an info tab in Windchill.  When I try to start a new topic, it does not give me any box to type into.  See screenshot attached. Is this something that my administrator needs to enable before it works?  If so, where would my administrator go to enable this feature.  (My administrator is pretty new so they are not up to speed yet.)   I thought this would be a good place just for my own notes about a particular model or drawing.   Thanks

We just ran out of space on our server. I went into Windchill and removed Unreferenced Files. After doing this, we are now getting the error: Failed to get Url information for content files to upload them to server. Error details: Error occurred while executing HTTP request.   I have checked PTC's support pages and this community, and none of the Articles or posts I could find seem to apply. We are only uploading/checking in Creo CAD Documents.   Can anyone help me figure out what is going on?

Is there a parameter you can add in a Creo Parametric assembly that, when owner associated, will prevent the product structure from being built automatically?   I have memory of seeing this mentioned somewhere, but cannot find any references to it. It might have also been a product enhancement idea, or mentioned at LIveworx/Tech Committees.   There are Windchill preferences to prevent creation of parts, and use gathering parts. You can also use Contributing Image which has similar results.

Good day,   I would like to know whether it is possible to check for a duplicate Variant Specification in the Product Family Matrix Editor?   When creating a new variant from the overloaded product structure using the Actions > Configure selection, the flow checks whether a similar/duplicate variant already exists.   In the matrix editor it is however possible to allocate any component without validation?   Appreciate the help.   Thanks

Many customers are planning to upgrade to WC 12 due to support for MS Office 2019. Looks like latest Adobe Experience Manager(AEM) will not be compatible with Office 2019. This compatibility issue will be a roadblock for some customers wanting to upgrade to Windchill 12. I know AEM is not managed by PTC but I want to raise a concern here.   BR A.

Hello - I am using Creo 6 and Windchill 11.0.  We use library parts such as screws and washers.  Currently, when I want to use one of these library parts in my assembly, when I add the particular instance to my workspace it pulls in the generic and all the instances to my workspace.  In some cases this will add over 100 instances to my workspace.  Is there a way to only add the single instance that I need to my workspace?  I am not modifying the instance, I just want add it to my assembly.     Thanks