Changing structure of a multi-level family table

July 16, 2015, 2:53 am

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Hello everybody,

 

If possible, I maybe want to change an existing Multi-level table. It is an part "Bolt" with DIN and ISO as highest level. Downwards it consist of the several DIN- and ISO-norms. When putting a hexbolt M6 ISO8765 in the assembly you look first for ISO and then the specific norm and size. Because ISO8765 is equal to DIN960, I want to smash ISO8765 and DIN960 to one level! And so also smash the highest levels DIN and ISO to one "DIN/ISO" or even delete!

 

I hope it's clear what I want!? And it's problably not possible, I suspect, but maybe can someone suprise me?

 

Is it also possible to copy one level?

 

Thanks already!

 

Greets Raymond

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Extending the modeled attribute string length well beyond 500 charater limit

July 17, 2015, 12:16 pm

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Has anyone done this?  I have a request that a document type be transferred into Windchill (essentially getting rid of the document by not having primary content), the content would be entered as attributes.  The question is, has anyone done anything like this?  One of the attribute strings would need to be increased to allow 4-5 thousand characters.

Policy Administration role 'Reviewer'

July 17, 2015, 8:21 am

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Windchill 10.1 M020

 

We've been using Change Management for some time. I've been working on a project to expand this into other parts of our facility. In doing so, I have to set up (and review existing) policy settings in the Policy Administration utility.

 

One of the things I noticed was that the Design Engineer role (the entire product engineering department) had modify permission when a Change Activity (WTChangeActivity2) was at the Under Review state. This looked like a mistake I simply forgot to correct upon implementation. The only role that should be modifying the Change Activity is the Reviewer, who is chosen when the Change Notice Implementation Plan is first created. I double checked and the Reviewer did indeed have the correct permissions for Under Review WTChangeActivity2. So, I removed the policy for Design Engineer.

 

Turns out removing this caused every reviewer to no longer be able to attach documents to the Change Activity. I double check the Reviewer policy and everything looks right. In fact, it's identical to the Design Engineer policy that is allowing attachments to be made. I even look over the Assignee policy and verify it's working as expected at each state (Implementation = modify; Under Review = no modify).

 

It's looking like the Reviewer role chosen in the Workflow Template is in no way related to the Reviewer listed as a role in Policy Administration. Knowledge Base provided nothing (granted, I give up on it pretty quickly due to how much of a PoS it is).

 

I put the Design Engineer policy back in place just so the system works while I sort this out, but it's not an ideal situation to allow any member of product engineering to modify the Change Activity at any point in the review.

 

Has anyone else seen weird behavior with the Reviewer role? If so, what else should I look into?

 

I thought about using a different role (or creating my own) but that would be a bit too much work to go through if it's something simple I'm overlooking.

Find Participants missing Most Recent Participants:

July 17, 2015, 1:48 pm

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Anyone know why when users select to Add Participants on a new Change Request that the Most Recent Participants: table is not displayed?

Getting errors while starting the windchill server- Prod down

July 18, 2015, 6:41 am

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In order to remove unreferenced files from the vault wanted to set the wt.fv.purgeUnreferencedFilesOlderThan =2

I just did the following steps as initial step for removing the .unreferenced files:

1) Updated site.xconf to set wt.fv.purgeUnreferencedFilesOlderThan =2

2) Ran xconfmanager –p from Windchill home directory

3) No error reported

4) Stopped Windchill

5) Cleared tomcat instances

6) After that tried to start the method server but it’s not starting

Getting following error

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)

        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)

        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)

        at wt.manager.ServerLauncher.startServerReturningProcess(ServerLauncher.java:143)

        at wt.manager.ServerLauncher.startServer(ServerLauncher.java:101)

        at wt.manager.ServerLauncher.main(ServerLauncher.java:472)

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Empty command

        at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:425)

        at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:369)

        at wt.manager.ServerLauncher.launchCmd(ServerLauncher.java:236)

        at wt.manager.ServerLauncher.launchCmd(ServerLauncher.java:208)

        at wt.manager.ServerLauncher.launchCmd(ServerLauncher.java:192)

        at wt.manager.BaseServerLauncher.launch(BaseServerLauncher.java:249)

        at wt.manager.BaseServerLauncher.launch(BaseServerLauncher.java:122)

        ... 7 more

 

Any idea why this error is showing up? Please let me know currently our prod servers are not starting.

Force End Item = Yes?

May 31, 2013, 9:06 am

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I'm on 10.1 M020 and I'm unable to force the End Item attribute on a WTPart soft type to "Yes" either through the OIR, Default Values tab, or both.  Has anyone been able to do this?  It always remains at "No" no matter what I do.

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Need to write a service listener which could listen to external folder changes

July 16, 2015, 2:05 am

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Hi All,

 

I need to write a service listener which could listens to any change, either creation or modification of an object, which takes place on an external folder (OS folder). For example, I have a folder on the server (same on windchill) D:\input. If somebody creates an xml with WTPart name,number etx attribute, Windchill should listen to the new creation and creates a WTPart in Windchill. Similarly, even if someone modifies a file under D:\input, it shall trigger a request to create a WTPart. I'll think of the validation later, but I'm not aware of the events which I need to check for and how to read data on that.

 

Please help.

 

thanks,

 

Wasim

WCH part numbering --- "semi-autonumbering"

July 14, 2015, 11:43 pm

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Hallo all,

 

many people on this forum gave me inspiration to develop better part numbering in our company. Have a new idea hot to make semi-autonumbering. This technique is suitable for manufactured parts. For a buying/ordered parts will discusse later.

l will be glad to hear any critique, note that l see the problem mainly from CAD user/engineer point of view.

Please see picture below.

 

Company workspaces:

Workspaces naming convention includes the first part of product number.

It consits of two main part with a "-" as a separator ---> product number - short logical description ---> example> 11010-CWT (in our company everyone knows what CWT means)

My imagine about function:

- l´m working on 11010-CTW project

- set workspace to this project

- create a new part

- new part will be autonumbered like following:

    - because my active workspace is 11010-CTW so WCH will extract "11010" automaticly from workspace name

    - because autonumbering is ON WCH will create a number after a dash (this number is filtered in part relations to drawing number)

What l expect:

- WCH has full control of NUMBER and FILE NAME ---> no more has to solve renaming parts/drawing from the duplicity reason ("part is not unique").

- drawing number is include in file name and extract with relation ---> each drawing number is unique

 

Reasons why l choose this:

- keep it simply

- keep some logical file naming (year and proct number in this year is anough for a rough orientation)

- make clear difference between projects

 

How to continue?

- what function shall i used for workspace name filter (11010) --- need to show some direction (don´t like a blind exploring)

 

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l like your comments like: "What happen if ...?"

If you see some mistake point it please.

Thanks in any advice, commets, tips or tricks

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How to add information in a column to the Routing/Process History Table

July 20, 2015, 8:49 am

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We would like to add a column containing the routing instructions to the Routing/Process History table.  Has anyone done this, or something similar?  If so, how?

 

 

Or failing that, adding the same information to the Process Status table.

 

 

 

-marc

CAD / PLM Systems Manager

TriMark Corporation

Windchill and Windows 10

July 20, 2015, 7:18 am

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Just a general question if anyone has knowledge on this... What version of Windchill will be compatible with Windows' new web browser Edge(Spartan)? It is a completely redesigned browser that is not in any way tied to IE, so just wondering what it's all going to break.

 

Reason I ask, is we are looking at upgrading Windchill soon and would like to not have to upgrade again shortly down the road because of compatibility issues.

Rename many + Revise many

July 20, 2015, 10:46 am

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We acquired a company with mature SolidWorks design data - now bringing into Windchill.

They had no data management - just stored in folders.  Filenames include Revision.

 

All comes in very nicely.  But - Need

 

A) A mass Rename / Renumber effort

Thoughts / advice on how to rename / renumber efficiently?

 

B) Also need to Revise all to the current correct Rev (or bring in at correct Rev - does not seem possible)

Thoughts on how to bring each to correct Rev efficiently?

 

thanks in advance

Has anyone had experiance with the Link Extract tool by Fishbowl?

July 20, 2015, 1:25 pm

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We are moving our Windchill PDM link data to PTC's cloud, but first I want/need to extract the data from the VM it is currently residing on. Our VAR recommended this tool but before I buy it I was hoping to get some feedback from other users.

 

thanks

SQL Query for document Context/Location

July 14, 2015, 2:58 pm

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Does anyone have a SQL query to list of all documents, with their context & location.

 

I did setup a query in report builder, however I run into a record count limitation (65k) when exporting.  When using the SQL query from this report in SQL itself, it only brings over the IDs for context and folder path (I need the names).  I must need to link to another table, even though the report builder SQL is not showing such?

Baseline & Managed Collection Questions

September 13, 2012, 3:56 pm

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Hello,

Currently we have a manual process utilizing promotion requests, and have a goal of utilizing Windchill functionality to review and release without using an ECN:



1.      Can you promote a baseline?

2.      Can you promote a managed collection?

3.      Can you show out-of-date status in either?

4.      Can a baseline be updated from the baseline tool?



Thanks,
Take care,

JEREMY HANDLER
Mechanical Engineer
1+760-591-7318
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Windchill Package Delivery to FTP

April 2, 2014, 4:40 am

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Hi,

Does anyone here know how I can configure Windchill to deliver a package to an FTP location?
The delivery of the package via Email works great, but I would really like to push this onto an FTP location.
The documentation which I've read thus far deals with Distribution Targets, but I don't have a "Manage Distribution" link on either my Site or Organisation Utilities page?

Kevin Sperring
Technical Manager
LexisNexis
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Is anyone ever made a dynamic drop down list depending to another ?

July 21, 2015, 2:56 am

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I want to design a drop down list depending to another in PDMLink 10.2

 

Sample :

If user chooses into the drop down list "A", value "Val1_A", then my down list "B", displayed values "Val1_B" and "Val2_B"

If user chooses into the drop down list "A", value "Val2_A", then my down list "B", displayed values "Val2_B" and "Val2_C"

 

 

Thx,

Romain

Open attachment directly with CREO Paremetric or Third-Party Application

July 21, 2015, 8:50 am

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I would like to open attachments directly to my CAD documents in Windchill.

This is interesting for CREO Parametric documents to open the IGES and STEP neutral file attachments

 

But this is even more interesting when I want to open with Creo Parametric file attachments of a ECAD document as IDF (* .emp, .emn *)

 

Today it is possible to download the attachment to its local disk, but impossible in the Workspace.

Using import spreadsheet for Reference document

July 16, 2015, 7:31 am

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Hi

 

We have started using Windchill & WT parts to manage all the information of our products. We started to store pdf versions of our drawing (for quick reference) in WT parts, but having to do the process for multiple items can take lots of time (go to WT part, checkout part, Create new Reference document, add pdf to reference document, checkin everything, rince & repeate...)

 

I recently learned about the Import from spreadsheet in Windchill and was able to create a simple tool to let a user bulk load multiple WTpart. I was wondering if it was possible to import spreadsheets to do the following tasks:

 

-Create a Reference Document part

-Add a pdf to the Reference Document (if could be defined with a path)

-Add this new Reference Document to a WTpart (of the same number)

 

Is this too much for the Import from spreadsheet function? If it is possible, what would be the required attributes in the Excell spreadsheet? If it is not possible, are there any way to manage documentation in a more effective way?

 

We are using Windchill 10.2

 

Thank you

Exporting Softype Definition from Windchill 9.1 System

July 21, 2015, 7:39 am

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Hello Friends,

 

I would like to know if there are any custom utilities/reports written to export the complete Softtype Definition information from Windchill 9.1 System. The information is needed to move the complete Softtype, Attribute, and Constraint updates from Development to Test and Production servers. It is also needed to store the configuration file in SVN for new system setup.

 

Any help in this matter is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks & Best Regards,

Mahesh KL

Windchill 10.1 M030 to Windchill 10.1 M050

July 21, 2015, 6:38 am

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This weekend i'm going to be shutting down our server taking a snapshot in Vcenter and performing an upgrade from M30 to M050

 

Hopefully this should sort a few of our problems here are there!

 

Just wondering if anyone has any tips / tricks or has ran into any problems whilst doing the upgrade?

 

Everything is located on one server e.g. oracle database & apache server & windchill server & file vaults are all on the same server which should makes things a little easier!

 

This is my first windchill system upgrade, have read through the documentation and doesn't look too difficult!

 

Thanks,