Windchill

Hi, I am trying to explore the Change Promotion utility in Windchill 11. Can someone please share your experience in it?

Hello,Currently, the auto-numbering kicks in and renames all components according to the auto-numbering scheme when opening a 3D model in CATIA that is not saved in Windchill. I would like to delay this action until the 3D model is saved in Windchill. I came across this preference in Windchill 11.0 that seemed to be what I need, delay.autonumber.generation which allows you to switch behavior and delay number generation. Does anyone know if this setting is available in 10.2 and if yes, would it change the above behavior to what I want? If not, is there an alternative way to do it?Thanks much in advance!

Is it possible add to the action menu on clipboard the action "Add Download document to compress file"Thank for any helpBeniamino

I have parts updated with wrong Effectivities applied, and i want to remove those applied effectivities bulk using Info*Engine task, is there any tasks to remove effectivities?

I have a running promotion request that I need to abandon or stop so that I can replace an approver with another approver.  My thought was to simply abandon the running workflow and start over.

In WINDCHILL Real number Attribute showing in the object detail page 14 place decimal scientific notation. How can I display 3-digit decimal standard after decimal for WEIGHT ATTRIBUTE IN windchill as Type REAL NUMBER??.

We are actually a chemical company, but it occurred to me that some practices for managing a software type product might apply to us (in part) rather than a typical manufacturing environment. Actually there are two things that could be managed: The architectural/electrical construction drawings for building the process buildings and equipment for making the chemicals (not mass produced) and the actual chemicals themselves that are mass produced.Any suggestions?

Hi,we are using DTI and mapping attributes from PDMLink to Word or Excel.One of the attributes is a Temperature and measurement unit is defined in "Celsius".The attribute value and the corresponding measurement unit is displayed correctly in PDMLink.However, when mapping the attribute to Word document, then the value is converted into Kelvin and the measurement unit is shown as "K".According to PTC support this seems to be spec, and they asked me to create a product idea.How can I create the product idea?User would never accept the temperature in Kelvin and therefore I need to apply a workaround for this, but on the other side I want PDMLink to improve.Kind regards.Tom

Hi,How can we get the workspace/s of a particular user from Info*Engine WebServices ? Is there a way by querying the Info*Engine WebServices with criteria and typeReference or any other.Thanks in advance.

Some users got this message when trying to start WQS 10.2 M060"Recordset 'Relex.DocumentModel.Recordsets.ProblemRecordset' failed to open".How can we solve this problem?

Hello,I am working on project and shared few cad files from product to my project. Now I see Out of sync share error for shared files. I tried updating project folder and updating selected shares options, couldn't get rid of this. Any other ways to get latest files in my project?

Hi..I would like to know prerequisites to understand the customization in windchill..could you please help me with this...??Regards Madhu.

How do you work with Windchill?We are configured to have WT parts the same number as the CAD part for integration with SAP. Currently the auto associate function does not create a WT part that is the same number as the CAD part and we are told to rename the WT part to match.Is anyone else dealing with this situation?We work in CAD parts all the time and some functionality in pro will be more difficult, like rename in an assembly, if we have to create WT parts first.Let me know how you work with WT parts, thanks

For only some users, for a CAD Doc in a workspace or in commonspace, selecting the viewable image from within the browser inside CAD (either Creo Parametric or SolidWorks WGM) results in nothing.  Actions, Open in, Creo View is grayed out.  For other users, this works perfectly.No help from tech support on what may be causing this difference.Ideas?thanksshown below is on my machine which works - for others, no effect from selecting the image and Open in Creo View is grayed out.

Do the CAD part to be revised / iterated when classification update

Facing issue after changing the vaulting & Replication preference from master to replica, the thumbnails of the objects goes missing.

Our old drawings title block have ECN numbers , with windchill I am advising not to use the CN # on Drawing title block. My reasoning is all you need is Part NUmber and the subsequent details can be found in your PLM system. This will also promotes the best practice of using PLM system the right way ( right way as I think )Please share your thoughts on thisThanksAlex

Hello everyone,I'm having trouble starting Windchill. Upon launch, the Server Manager opens and launches the Method Server who opens momentarily and closes.The Method Server log is the following:2017-02-09 07:51:50,556 INFO  [main] wt.system.out  - ------------------------------------------------------2017-02-09 07:51:50,556 INFO  [main] wt.method.server.startup  - Starting MethodServer2017-02-09 07:51:50,556 INFO  [main] wt.method.server.startup  - JVM id: 28922017-02-09 07:51:50,556 INFO  [main] wt.method.server.startup  - JVM: Oracle Corporation, Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, 1.8.0_92 (25.92-b14), 64-bit2017-02-09 07:51:50,556 INFO  [main] wt.method.server.startup  - OS: Windows Server 2012 R2, amd64, 6.32017-02-09 07:51:50,556 INFO  [main] wt.method.server.startup  - Host: WIN-9U6A5RRLNG0 (172.31.26.169)2017-02-09 07:51:50,556 INFO  [main] wt.method.server.startup  - java.rmi.server.hostname: 172.31.26.16920

Hi,     When windchill starts, it takes some time to initialize ServerManager, BackgroundMethodServer and MethodServer. So, in that after initialization, Method server shows 'MethodServer ready (in 432.07 secs)' time to start the complete windchill, So I just want to know can we decrease this time. Please, could anyone help me in that.Thank YouSumit Patil

I get this error message when I access my workspace .What could be the problem?My colleague who has site level access seems to be able to  access the workspace

Hey,We are considering turning on the Windchill preference, "Automatic Revise Mode" to help us with our state based versioning scheme transition from pre-release states to released.   I was wondering if anyone has done this and what best practices you could share.As I understand it there are several things that need to be changed for this to work:Set Preference: Automatic Revise ModeVerify that you are using the latest Promotion Request workflow.Update lifecycle.Dedicated state for the automatic revisionUpdated transitions for other states if needed.Additional Revise transition to Released state from the dedicated state.Create or update ACL to prevent ad hoc revision in dedicated state.Windchill 11.0 m020

I've set up a CADworker with Creo 3 M100 and creo view 3.1 on a windows 2008 R2 VM. I setup 2 workers on this server. The CADworker works as expected for the most part, the only issue I have is that it takes 2 minutes to register the server. Regardless of whether or not the worker agent is started the bottle neck of the process is the 2 minute wait while registering the server. Is there some optimization I'm not performing? Thanks

Hi all,   We have a requirement of setting 2 different Date effectivities for the same Part Revision. When we are using the Change Notice / Change Task approach of setting effectivity, there is a OOTB validation / Check that combines the 2 date effectivities and calculates the resultant effectivity. Say for Eg,. If CN1 / Change task 1 specifies  effectivity as 31/3/2017 - Open ended CN2 / Change Task 2 specifies effectivity as 10/5/2017 - Open ended   What we wanted is to set  2 different effectivities for that Part Revision namely 31/3/2017 - Open ended 10/5/2017 - Open ended   But system gives onl y1 effectivity , as  the following effectivity ( seems it is merging and calculating) 31/3/2017   I can understand on why this is like this, because system determines that the Part Revision, as a Net result should be effective on the earliest date between 2 CNs.   My question is , how to bypass or over ride this check , so that we get 2 effectivities.

Hello,We have a need to create something like a Referenced By link between WTParts and EPMDocuments. Our use case is mainly for Dynamic Documents (Arbortext), which contain product specific documentation.We have WTParts representing top level assemblies.We have Arbortext authored product documentation as Dynamic Documents for the WTPart assemblies.The groups maintaining the WTPart and the Dynamic Documents are independent.Requirements for change for the product and the documentation are completely independent.Revisions to the WTPart often do not require revision of the Dynamic Documents, the individual revising the WTPart would not always know the correct course of action for the documentation.Revisions to the Dynamic Document never require a revision to the WTPart.We require a Version to Master link that will work for Dynamic Documents similar to how Reference by Links work between a WTPart version and a WTDocument master. This would allow the two groups to work as independently as po

Hello,how can I create an area calculation attribut and put it in my workspace columm (criteria) ? thanksMorgan