Windchill Tips

Windchill PLM Tech Tips Webcasts are back!  Started back in 2018 as a series of webcasts set to deliver product tips, they are scheduled to launch in November 2020.     These technical webcasts are intended to deep dive, give you more product info and additional details so you’ll gain the most value from your PLM software.     Two of our upcoming webcasts are:   Enterprise Collaboration with Thingworx Navigate: Thursday, November 19th @ 10am EST Creo View 7.0 (And Beyond): Thursday, December 3rd @ 10am EST Event registration details to follow!   Check out two of our Tech Tips Replays from March and July 2020: Configuration Driven Visualization and Intro to Windchill Rest Services

Engineering the “New Normal” with PLM on Cloud  HCL Hosts PLM Manufacturing Tweetchat Panel Session     From the Desk of our PLM Product Marketing Director, Nikhil Rai     Last week, Keith Berling, VP of SaaS Solutions, was a Twitter panelist on CTOStraightTalk which was hosted by HCL.  During the session, Keith discussed how PLM on PTC Cloud is transforming manufacturing and enabling collaboration in this current pandemic world. To see the entire Tweetchat, click here.    ​​​​​​​About CTO StraightTalk:  Straight Talk is a multi-media thought leadership platform for the peer-to-peer exchange of experience-based insights among senior technology leaders designed to help them find solutions to current challenges, drive business results, and advance their careers.   

Our own GM, Kevin O’Brien, will be one of the sponsored speakers for this upcoming virtual Product Innovation (PI) Digital Transformation (Dx) event, which spans such themes as Digital Product Design and Development, PLM, Digital Manufacturing, Data Integration, and more.     To learn more about PI DX and to review their agenda,  visit https://events.pi.tv/2020/dx/agenda

We are happy to announce two new blogs on ptc.com – Check them out!     Our first blog,  Coordinate Change Management for Faster Time to Industrialization, focuses on ERP and PLM orchestration and how to enable automatic product data transfer.   In our blog, Concurrent Manufacturing: Break Down Data Silos to Deliver More Value, we highlight how to break down data siloes by building a complete digital thread and the value collaboration between engineering and manufacturing brings.   Feel free to share the links with your colleagues. 

Windchill Extensions from SiliconExpert Ensure Design Viability By SiliconExpert and PTC   Garbage in.  Garbage out.  The familiar computer science concept refers to the fact that the resulting output is dependent on the quality of the input.    The same is true for industrial design.  Complex product designs are dependent on the components required to build them.  An otherwise beautiful design can turn to garbage when composed of parts that are non-compliant or become obsolete.      Windchill PLM software reduces the time to industrialization by digitizing and connecting your enterprise across the globe.  Product design is a complex process that requires information from a myriad of sources.     Windchill Extensions from SiliconExpert help ensure the long-term viability of your designs. &nbsp

We've had several questions around these topics so I am uploading the slides from the 2015 PTC Live session.  I will add the follow on videos.

PTC is happy to announce the new HTML5 based drag-n-drop file upload utility with Windchill 10.2_M020. This new utility will replace the existing Java based drop target and give people a much simpler and more intuitive way to upload new documents and attachments. This video demonstrates how easy it is to create multiple documents using the new drag-n-drop upload utility.   This video does not contain audio, yet...     Unable to play video. Please try again later.(view in My Videos)

I'm excited to share that we have a new event series that kicked off this week called 'Coffee with a PLM Expert'. The sessions in these series are all live and interactive, focused the most popular Windchill topics. Here's a bit more about each series:  Core PLM Series Wednesdays from June 10 – July 29 10-11AM EST PTC’s PLM platform, Windchill, offers native collaboration capabilities enabling your global virtual workforce to efficiently design and manufacture products. In these relaxed, interactive sessions, you’ll learn about new and existing PLM capabilities and how they can best support your product development process. Date Topic June 10 Visualization June 17 Project Collaboration June 24 Windchill Extensions Introduction July 1 Change Management July 8 Manufacturing Process Management July 15 Parts Classification July 22 Creo 7 + Windchill 12 July 29 ThingWorx Navigate   Windchill Extensions Series Tuesdays from June 16 – July 21 10-11AM EST Th

I’m sure that many of you have come across slow-performing searches in Windchill, especially when using wildcards. It might be snappier if you have Index Search installed, but only when the Keyword: field is used; as soon as you enter something in the Criteria section of Advanced Search, the system falls back to basic database queries. Under the hood, the bulk of the time and resources spent during wildcard search is in database queries containing something like "..AND NAME LIKE ‘%mypart%’…", i.e. with filters that include leading and/or trailing wildcards. New functionality was introduced in Windchill 10.2 to deal with this. The basic idea is that, for a given business object type and attribute, a separate table is created in the database that holds indexed columns with substrings of the current values. Windchill can then do exact searches of these substrings without using wildcards, which speeds things up significantly. We’ll go through an example here to illustrate how to use it. &n

Join this webinar to get expert advice on how to plan and deploy PLM in support of your innovation efforts. Based on the eBook, “The PLM Deployment Handbook: Planning and Driving Digital Transformation”, Kevin O’Brien, Divisional GM of PLM, will ask author Chad Jackson, Chief Analyst at Lifecycle Insights, to provide: Examples of digital transformation initiatives Best practices for successfully implementing PLM Tips on how to integrate your functional systems Ways to improve product quality that drives customer satisfaction Register here: https://www.ptc.com/en/resources/plm/webcast/deployment-lifecycle-insights  

Last time, I showed you how security labels can be added to your table displays for CAD workgroup managers (here).  In addition, a new capability for setting security label values for newly created CAD data has been introduced.  The implementation is quite different from how it is done for Documents and Parts (wizard based approach).  It is also not enabled by default even when security labels are configured, so I thought I would show you.   It is often the case where new CAD documents in Windchill are created directly from the CAD tool itself (using File > New) and then saving these files to the workspace. At this point, access to these objects is only available to the user that owns the workspace.  Other users do not become aware or have access until these new CAD documents are checked-in.  So, this is where we introduced the ability for setting security labels on newly created CAD documents.  You do this by adding your security labels to the tab

For Whirlpool Corporation, innovation is inspired by the impact it will have on their consumers. Products need to be easier, faster, and better – improving the customer’s home experience. Whirlpool Corporation is leveraging PTC products to achieve its vision by reducing overall system and product complexity, improving its lifecycle processes and efficiencies. In these demos, see how Whirlpool Corporation is exploring technology – such as digital twin, augmented reality, and data-driven design -- to extend PLM across the enterprise and bring innovation to its consumers. https://www.ptc.com/en/products/plm/everyday-innovation/innovator-spotlight-whirlpool/whirlpool-plm-demonstrations

A complete bill of materials is the cornerstone of your digital transformation. Learn how taking small steps can have a huge impact. Take a walk through our virtual conference to see how your organization can gain: Increased change management efficiency with repeatable processes and traceability Increased parts reuse and decreased data duplication Single, up-to-date source of truth for product data Faster, more accurate response to internal/market pressures Earlier, improved cross-discipline enterprise collaboration In this virtual conference, you can choose from multiple presentations. Spend as much time as you want learning how to improve your BOM through digital transformation: BOM Structure BOM Visualization Change Management Component and Supplier Management Enterprise Collaboration BOM Transformation BOM Reporting & Analytics Connected PLM Production Planning Quality Click here to get started. 

This Expert Session will explain the type of changes that you can expect to affect your current processes around managing and securing your PLM application when moving to the Cloud.     For full-sized viewing, click on the YouTube link in the player controls.

This Expert Session will explain the steps PTC will take to move all of your data, application settings, configurations & customizations to PTC Cloud.       For full-sized viewing, click on the YouTube link in the player controls.

LiveWorx and PTC/User are now offering an entire day focused on Creo and Windchill content with the addition of CAD & PLM Technical Day on Monday, June 10. This is an additional 25 breakout sessions with all of the Creo and Windchill tips, tricks and insights necessary to get the most out of your PTC Products. Here’s what you need to know:   You can take a look at what to expect for sessions here CAD & PLM Technical Day is included with your purchase of an All Access or DeluX Pass Explorer Pass holders can add it on for an additional cost of $250 until March 27 and $350 through June 13 If you are already registered it is not too late to add this to your registration: Log In to your account Enter username and password Select “Registration” Scroll down and click “Purchase Additional Event Offerings” and add the CAD & PLM Technical Day to your account   Seats are filling fast for this dedicated content, don’t miss out on learning from some of our Creo and W

  The /Windchill/tmp/wrmfTransport directory get deleted randomly. Tried to exclude that folder from antivirus analysis but in vain. Can someone help on this please?    

Polaris strives to give a great end-to-end experience for its riders, from customized purchase options to enhanced safety features. To achieve this vision, Polaris is adopting a step-by-step approach to digital transformation through PLM. In this series of 10 technical demos, you'll see what Polaris has either currently implemented or is considering as a part of its PLM/digital transformation roadmap.    BOM Management and Global Platforms — Manage and link CAD data, bills of material, and visualization for a modular EBOM structure and generate options and variants for design verification and visualization Family Management — Plan product families and manage options, choices, and assignments in multi-year product structures Change Management — Manage change of a new option from EBOM to MBOM through process plans and work instructions Augmented Reality — Variant-specific AR design review and visualization and process plan visualization BOM Transformation — Associatively

Good day Everyone, I have added content from the event in Stuttgart - PTC Forum Europe 2016 In addition to the presentations, you may also watch keynotes and session recordings from your computer. I hope you find the content valuable. Best, Toby

From Windchill 11.0 M030 onward, 32-bit Windchill Workgroup Manager client is not supported.   It means that installing the Windchill Workgroup Manager on 32-bit Windows OS is not supported and/or it may not be possible. Installing the 32-bit Windchill Workgroup Manager on 64-bit Windows OS is not possible For the detail, please refer to CS265512 - "Discontinuation of support of 32-bit Windows with Windchill Workgroup Manager 11.0 M030.

Are you experiencing poor server performance managing Pro/E, Creo or Windchill Workgroup Manager (CAD) data in Windchill?   Are users complaining that when working with CAD data, interaction with Windchill or the Workspace is slow?   Do you wonder what you should do to setup or tune a Windchill server for interaction with clients working with CAD data?   Initial performance tuning of a Windchill server doesn't have to be overly complicated and time consuming process.  Time spent tuning the Windchill server will improve performance and ensure users have the best possible interaction with the Windchill.  Let's walk through the following:   Resources that are available to guide you during tuning Server properties and preferences to set Database tuning Other considerations   Resources Technical Support Article CS24192 [TS KP] Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, Creo or Windchill Workgroup Manager Interaction with PDMLink - Recommended Initial Performance Server Set

In this example Change Associations are used to define that a Prototype CN (Soft typed) will have a single Change Task - Prototype Change Task that is defined as the default change task for this type of Change Notice.   With Windchill 11.0 M010 and onwards you can define which Change Task types are allowed and created for a type of Change Notice.  This is allow followed with Change Task templates.  Together this helps to error proof your process and reduce clicks for the user.

With Windchill 11.0 one can use Query Builder queries to further refine search results.  For example refine the search to look at results based upon related objects.   This zip file contains two queries from 11.0 M020   Search with Parts - additional query to find parts that are on a Change Notice at a given state Reference Designator - Find parts on a BOM with a given reference designator.  For example - find a part (eg Name Capacitor*) that has a reference designator C16

When there are a large number of objects in a Windchill workspace, it is difficult to identify the object representing the top-level object of a large assembly without any clue of its identity information.With the same or similar intent, the featured object live has been provided to restrict the number of objects displayed in the workspace table and display only those objects that are likely to be of value or use to you. Windchill automatically sets the featured state of certain objects in the workspace. Objects automatically set to the featured state by Windchill have:been initially selected for Add to Workspace or Check Out actions.been previously checked out.been modified, either locally or in the server-side workspace.drawings included for objects already selected.been previously opened in the CAD tool (embedded browser only).From Windchill 11.0 M020, a new “top level objects list” view is available in the Windchill workspace that filters out child objects and displays only top lev

Example of using Part Compare with and showing how Show Only Differences works   (view in My Videos)