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We use a Windchill template for new ACAD drawings which set the document category to drwaing. I exported a ACAD Drawing from my Workspace to make some tests at our testsystem. After import the DWG into my Workspace at our test system the document category is set to CAD Part. I found no oportunity to change the document category at the import menue. Has anyone a soulution for this problem? Many thanks, Peter

No templates available for new graphic information element after selecting authoring language.. Please guide on this as I can select any authoring language to create creo illustrate and IsoDraw file without any content in Windchill.  

We're running into an issue with one of our systems where when trying to register our server with the correct location, Creo keeps throwing the "Invalid server location" error. The location is correct. One thing we noticed was that the .cache2008 folder in AppData/Roaming isn't getting created.  There's no Environmental Variable settings changing the cache location and at this point we're stumped. Any suggestions? We can try a re-install... but aside from that what else could be causing the cache folder not to get created? 

Ok...not Creo model related.   I am working on laptop working remotely.   I am working in Windchill.   I can resize the window with ctrl -/+.   But I'm not getting a right scroll down or "done" buttons when I go to put files back in.   Any general suggestions on working on a browser on a small laptop window?   Thanks,   Wayne

Greetings, My boss is curious how to find status of ECN tasks working their way through the system. Is there a way of collecting the various ECNs and what is going on with them, such as their current task status by some sort of report query? Thanks, James   Windchill 11.0 M030 CPS09WGM 11.0 M030Inventor Pro 2017Windows 10  

I'm trying to fix an issue that I've run into with one of my co-worker's computers. I work in the IT department at my company, and he recently submitted a ticket showing a screenshot in windchill of a part not showing GD&T notations.    I tried a few different fixes, including installing and testing new fonts, but nothing seemed to fix this sheet. However, I asked him to open a different part, and the notations displayed just fine. Is there any reason that the notations are not properly displaying on just this one part? Is there any way to fix this?   Thanks in advance, Matt

I'm now working on our standard purchased parts...For SolidWorks, we have some parts modeled in-house, stored in a Library. Doesn't seem very optimized.  Have been studying and playing with Toolbox. Pretty slick actually.  Working perfectly so far.  Looks like we'll go this way instead of modeling parts on our own.Would like to compare notes w/anyone currently using SolidWorks Toolbox parts stored in Windchill - especially if you have a shared network Toolbox location.

Hello, Customer has PDM Essentials installed and he wants to know if there is any why to verify the license type or validate that SQL Server database is licensed ? The situation is that he wants to have this information when there is a Microsoft audit (e.g) and he should prove that and he is doubting that the PTC documentation can be sufficiente.   Using query "SELECT SERVERPROPERTY ('licenseType') it returns DISABLED (see screnshot attached).    Thank you in advance  

Hi All,Was planning to integrate Windchill with Agile PLM. Any inputs will be ofgreat help.Thanks in Advance,Sunil

Hello,   When performing a Save As in PTC Windchill I am easily able to add hot link locations when I want to set a location. However I cannot find out how to remove hot links that I have added and no longer need to use. Do anyone know how to do this?

Is it possible to create a Manufacturing View in different folder than Design View? In OIR we added some code so the folder location during WTPart creation is set based on the View.  However this won't seem to work when creating a New View Version of an existing WTPart.  The only way to make it work, is to give Create and Change Domain permission for the Manufacturing Engineer in Engineering Domain and ask him to Cut and Paste the Manufacturing View into the Manufacturing folder.Windchill 10.1 M030

We're looking for a way to have multiple versions of an object with identical content translated into different DTDs. Ideally, this content would be automatically updated when one is changed. For example, a content element in a DITA format could exist in Windchill. A user could then reuse this content as part of a 40051-2B document. Then, in the future, if the original DITA content element changes, the same element in 40051-2B will be automatically updated as well. Is there a way to automatically translate content from DITA to 40051-2B and vice versa, preferably while keeping it as a referenced server object?  

I am currently using a an Excel macro that imports the Product Structure into the Excel sheet.  The macro prompts the user for the log in name, it then pops up a GUI asking for an assembly part number. Once the assembly part number is entered it asks for the revision level.  The macro then returns the Product Structure into the Excel sheet.   Does anyone know a similar macro that can extract the BOM from the Design Assembly and not from the Product Structure (WTPart)?

Hii all,        Imported an assembly into workspace from local disc and 154 ghost parts came into sight and i know it's a nightmare. tried  dm_hide_model_dummy_deps=yes in configuration settings but didn't worked out, went to reference viewer to delete unwanted dependencies but a dialogue box " your model includes a very large number of external and local references click ignore to ignore missing references and continue " surfaced. if i click ignore only i can proceed to reference viewer and there no missing references are visible. got struck here any suggestions to clear those ghosts would be helpful

Hello,   showing thousand as 1,000 is very confusing to our european engineers who are used to see a dot or space as thousand separator.   Is there a way to modify or deactivate the thousand operator in Windchill?   Thanks in advance for your help.   Best Chris

Hello community,   So I have two questions regarding the Navigate / Windchill Extension matter. PTC Navigate 1.3, Thingworx 7.1. When I'm gathering all objects of specific type, e.g. all libraries using Windchill REST API, it returns me a set with libraries that are invisible for my user in Windchill - can it be a bug? What is the set of attributes available to be used in the OData $filter parameter? Because it work e.g. for containerReference, but it does not work for versionInfo.identifier.versionId. I'd like to filter WTDocuments by custom attribute and it seems to be not possible?   Any help appreciated. Regards, J.

I'm trying to export a list of all our drawings in Winchill with their respective Version and State listed. I stumbled across this link: https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article?n=CS237391 which shows how to set up a query build report.  By changing the NOT IN to IN in Condition 1, I was able to export the report showing all of our drawing part numbers with the .drw extension.   Can anyone help me as to how to add to this to display the Version (rev) and State for each drawing in the report??  When I do a standard search for .drw I can export with all the info but we have over 15,000 drawings and that exceeds the search limit.    

Where does one set the config spec. used by WVS when publishing on check in? I am attempting to configure Creo drawings to publish "as stored" and all other Creo objects to publish "latest".The documentation states the following:The config spec that is used for the publishing process, is provided by the application that emits the event, for example, a WGM. If that config spec is "null," WVS uses either the latest config spec or an as-stored config spec depending on the value of the property "publish.configspec.default.useasstoredifavailable."Where is the config spec set for the Creo workgroup manager?Thanks!

Just started working here after many years in Solidworks. Picking up Creo pretty good and like it. Now...we have Windchill and everyone is struggling. Legacy data stored on network drive in zip files. Also all current development still going on local drives. How do we get any of this into Windchill? It seems like a never ending fight with bad or no results so far. Coming from Solidworks, I was real excited to find and install Desktop Integration but it seems that is only for MS Office products and not CAD. This whole thing is reminding me of the DOS days....PTC products do a good job, but really aren't working well in modern Windows environment.   Any assistance would be appreciated on best, easiest and most straight forward method to loading all this stuff into Windchill.

WPA is not meeting enterprise application supportability requirements. Product can not be installed as service, which is the basic feature in any enterpsie application. Support team has to manually start the product after every planned and unplanned system downtime. MS support team is puching back on the installation of porduct until this issue is resolved.

Hido we need license to connect Windchill with other system?Case 1 : Connecting Windchill with SAP PI web services.Case 2 : Update some database with windchill. Fetch information from that database in other Applications.Case 3 : Sharing Windchill Data with other Application with Excel, text, XML or other file Formats.RegardsRakesh

This is more of a "who" and "where" than a "what".   Everyone has their pet peeves.  Typos are one of mine.  Where can I report them? The photo is the preference management interface for Windchill 11.0 M030-CPS10 where "default" is a typo.     Thank you!  

My actual requirement is to find a Windchill Java API which tells if a windchill object type like 'WTPart' needs to be checked out before update operation for a particular attribute or not by using the type of the object only.    I have searched the Windchill API JavaDoc for such API and found one which required an object as input. I need to determine whether the object needs to be checked out from the object type name only. Does anyone know about such API?   On the Windchill UI, I have seen that the Actions menu is being populated based on the object type. For example, For 'WTPart', Check out action is added to the actions menu, while for 'WTChangeRequest2' it is not.  On what basis does the Windchill application do this?

To start with I am not asking a question about buying additional modules of software. We own Windchill and I believe I can get what I need out of the software we already own.Using Views, e.g. Design, Manufacturing, etc... is there a way to create a new view, Service, and display the full end item product but structure the BOM so only the replacement or service able components are displayed. Example: I have an motor assembly you can either replace the whole motor or the brushed and two bushings on the shaft. Nothing else can be replaced if it fails. In the end I would have a full top level assembly visualization but the BOM would be minimized to show only replaceable parts.

How to configure the Additional MS in WC11 F00 in Non UI mode, Currently i am facing issues with the NON UI mode and even in UI mode only one MS is serving the requests. Could you please suggest what property changes needed for this ?