0_CAD Data Management-WGM

Windchill 10

CAD DM, Part-Doc Improvements &

eTDD

May 2011

Windchill 9.x

Pascal Montangon

May 2011

Forward Looking Information Subject to Change Without Notice © 2007 PTC3

Windchill 9.0:

Workspace Save As

Perform Save As on working copies

Without check in

Copy, Reuse, Replace

Selectively Update parents

Choose which parents are updated to contain new design

Detailed Design

Collect Related Items

Remove, Exclude Items from collected list

Set Name, Reuse, Replace

Status Column for Feedback

Select whether to update parent object

Listing of Parents in Workspace


Windchill 9.0:

Improved Workspace Usability

Simplify Add to WS page

Basic / Advanced

Icon Status Columns

“Out of Date”, Compare, Sort

Find in Table

Quick find in Workspace

Workspace Featured Item display

Seed item, Checked out, Modified, New

Detailed Design

Simple and Advanced UI

Icon Status Columns

Find Next, Back, Match Case

Quick filter to display objects of interest


Windchill 9.0:

Improved Baselines

Definition improvements

• Multi-select

• Object collection

• Label member as “Top”

Editing improvements

• Add/Replace/Protect

Baseline report

Detailed Design

Launch Collector

Easily replace with new version

Automate collection of children

Forward Looking Information Subject to Change Without Notice © 2006 PTC

Windchill 9.1 overview : File Server

A GPD Architecture With File Servers

Master copies of content can be stored on Master server or Remote File Servers

Remote CAD Workers can serve File Servers

Includes Pro/INTRALINK Data Migrator support

Benefits of Remote File Server

Reduces Network Bandwidth Consumption up to 85%

Reduces Disk Storage Usage by up to 50%

Increases Windchill GPD Scalability

Replica

Server

Replica

Server

Master

Server

A GPD Architecture

With Replica ServersCAD Data

Replica Copy

CAD Data

Master Copy

Legend

WAN

WAN

File

Server

File

Server

Master

Server

A GPD Architecture

With File Servers

WAN

WAN Library Data

A GPD Architecture With Replica Servers

The master copy of all content is on the Master Windchill server.

All content on replicas are copies (except for new uploaded content which has not been copied back to the master)

When there is very little collaboration between sites, the replica server architecture may use excessive Network Bandwidth and Disk Storage (2X) AND burden the Windchill Master server with unnecessary replication processes

Benefits

Simple, viable disaster recovery strategy


Workspace Frames

Brings Workspace Frames functionality to Windchill

Capabilities/Benefits

Track ever changing state of users workspace (frames)

It gives the sense of security that any accidental changes/deletion can be reverted back.

Ability to always “go back”

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Workspace Frames

Configuring FramesPreference Manager

Configure size of frame stack

Default of “0” (means disabled)

Managing Frames

Purged when limit is reached

or, user explicitly purges Events or

Cache– Ability to lock frames to protect from purge

or, check-in is performed

Accessing Frames from Workspace Actions and Event Manager

“Applying” a previous event performs an undo

Applied event is copied to the top of the stack

– Enabling undo/redo behavior

Forward Looking Information Subject to Change Without Notice

9.1 M030 – Pro/ENGINEER Data Management

Workspace Save As Improvement

Ability to specify an existing filename during Save As

– Saves the content of source model as the next iteration of target

• Not the same as Replace operation

– Generates Override-able Conflict, allowing the following resolutions:

Availability enabled by system hidden preference (requires manual loading)

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9.1 M030 – Pro/ENGINEER Data Management

Workspace Undo-checkout option to keep Modifications

Cancel checkout specify to reuse content

Resultant item flagged as locally modified & content available in Workspace

Embedded browser only

Support for uploaded modifications planned for 9.1 M040 + WF 4.0 M110© 2008 PTC

Reuse option available

in Undo Check Out

dialog

Modifications maintained

in workspace


Detail Design: Heterogeneous Design-In-Context (HDIC)

HDIC Integration between PDMLink and Pro/E will allow

Data Managed Associativity in a Multi-CAD Enterprise

New Capabilities with Wildfire 4.0 and PDMLink 9.1

Search for or Browse to Non-Pro/E CADDocs (V5 and UG) in PDMLink

Load Non-Pro/E CAD models directlyfrom PDMLink

Perform associative updates on Pro/EATB models that are linked to Non-Pro/E CADDocs in PDMLink

See ATB link to PDMLink Workspace for Non-Pro/E CAD models. Upload their Pro/E ATB models to PDMLink as Pro/E CADDocs

ATB CADDoc and Non-Pro/E CADDoc will link to the same WtPart

Dependency relation between CADDocs ensures Pro/E user downloads latest version of Non-Pro/E Master model whenever they download Pro/E ATB model


Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 Embedded Browser Enhancements

Mozilla supported as an embedded browser

Set config option “windows_browser_type”

Mozilla offers significant performance gains over IE for PDMLink!

Tabbed Browsing Supported

Embedded browser performance

IE can run on a separate thread

Memory independent from Pro/ENGINEER

Pro/E Wildfire 5.0

© 2009 PTC


Access to Windchill Table Views in Pro/E File

Access to Windchill Object’s attribute information directly in Pro/E

Object’s status information (textual)

System & User defined attributes

Define/Manage Table Views in PDMLink

Workspace views

Commonspace views

Access to views from Pro/E Dialogs

File > Open

Assemble > Open

Minimum Requirements

With 9.1 M020

Pro/E Wildfire 5.0 F000

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Pro/E Wildfire 5.0


Support for Parameters/Attributes with Units

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Allow the addition of a file-

based attribute to the CAD

document type definition

Designate

parameters with

units in WF 5.0

Display attribute value in

Windchill with user preferred

measurement system

Edit values in Windchill in

selected measurement

system

Pro/E Wildfire 5.0

Windchill 10

Pascal Montangon

May 2011

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Agenda

> General Improvements

> CAD driven product structures (bottom up)– Challenges

– Review of 10.0 capabilities working to address these challenges

> Enterprise Top Down Design

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> Modern Look & feel– LHS panel for Navigation & Search access

– New Model Structure Browser consistent with PSB

– Bread crumb trails

– “Light boxing” of Action UIs and Wizards

– RMB access to actions & information (excludes WS)

> UI Configurability

> Add to Workspace goes to

Object > Action workflow

> Working to eliminate multiple scroll bars

> Further improvements to CAD driven product structures– Increased flexibility

– Structure comparison tool

– Introducing soft type support for CAD

Pro/E (MCAD) Data Management

General Improvements & Changes

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CAD Document Information Page

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Actions drop-down

Breadcrumb trails…

Search

Quick access to

recent items

Fly-out panel for

Quick access to

navigation and

search

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Expand and

collapse page

elements

Tabs for access to

additional information.

Create your own custom

tabs

Links to page

elements

Drag and drop to

change display

hierarchy

Tailor additional

tabs to contain

add’l elements

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Ribbon UI access to

actions for Structure

Report and its content

Uses Report

based on

structure selection

Toggle between Visualization and

Attributes tab

Information updated based on

structure selection

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Structure Compare

> Side-by-side comparison of structures– CAD-to-Part

– Part-to-CAD

– Part-to-Part

> Highlight and Navigate differences

> Additional cross-highlighting reporting in

lower third

> Lightweight editing

> Bottom Up and Top Down Design build

support

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Launched from the

Compare Action

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Structure Compare

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Central Column for

difference reporting

Difference

Navigation

Build

Structure

on RHS

Search

structure

Configure table

display

Add’l reporting

and comparison

on highlighted

row

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> “Light boxing” of action related UIs

> Including CAD related actions– Add to Workspace

– Check-in/Check-out

– Save As

– Import/Export

– Rename

– And more…

> Available from embedded and

standalone

> Future - incremental updates to

underlying UI display as it relates to

action– Avoid complete refresh

– Maintaining last position (where applicable)

Additional UI Improvements

Pervasive use of Light Boxes

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> Limited flexibility

> Management of attributes & processes limited for CAD

> CAD and Product Structure not always the same

> Product Structure changes tied to workspace & CAD users

> No tools to view and compare structure

Detailed Design

CAD Driven Product Structure Challenges

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CAD Model Parts Structure

BOM

CAD DMU

For Modeling

purposes only

Incorrect

Quantity

modeled in CAD

CAD Model

specific subassy

level not needed

in Product

structure

Erroneously

built in

structure

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Improved Part – Document Relationships

> Goals– Deliver more flexibility to user working with product structure

driven from CAD data

– Enable user outside of CAD tools to work with CAD driven

product structure

> Key Capabilities– Provide environment for viewing CAD and Product Structure

side-by-side

• Compare differences

• Make edits

• Provide graphical feedback

– Relax restrictiveness of build rules

• Edit Product Structure qty.

• Restructuring capabilities

– Allow structures to evolve out-of-sync (planned for

M010)• Allow decoupling of structure building from CAD tool & check-in

– Multi-soft type support for CAD

– Simultaneous New CAD and Part creation UI

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Improved Part – Document Relationships Highlights

> Preference for decoupling build from WS check-in– Asynchronous structure changes (working out of sync)

> Introduction of the Dual Structure Browser– Compare CAD & Part Structures side-by-side

– Execute (selective) build of product structure

> New “Gathering” Assembly handling

> Multiple CAD Document Soft Typing Support– Define types based on authoring tools

– Drive type created based on CAD model attribute (parameter) value

– Couple CAD document soft type with WTPart soft type creation during auto-associate

> Flexibility to edit CAD driven structures– Easily change quantity information for built parts

– Remove erroneous built parts from structures

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Auto-associate UI

> 9.1 Workspace Auto-Associate– Accessed from Workspace > Edit menu

> 2 discrete tables presented to user– 1 for Models related to a Part

– 1 identifying models where a Part will be created

> Issues/Limitations– Operates based on configuration and customization rules

– Use interaction/options limited

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X-20 Auto-associate UI

> X-20 Concept– Single table approach

– Enabling additional user interaction

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Allow user to

specify new or

existing part to

associate

Specify & edit

association type

Specify Part

Type

Should it be an

End Item?

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> Benefits– Better view of associations between Part and CAD

– Provides end user more control of associations and CAD driven Part attributes

– Consistent with Edit Association UI

– Continues to follow custom/configured rules but allows for additional flexibility

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> Scenario– CAD User creates initial product structure/BOM from CAD design

– Downstream processes/users need this BOM to remain static for their activities

– Meanwhile CAD User may have some new ideas or modification which to experiment without

disrupting the enterprise activities associated with the product structure

– If model changes make sense later user will push these updates to structure

> How– Decouple build from Workspace Check-in

• User preference controlled

• Operation > CheckIn Operation > Checkin > Build After Check In [All, None]

– Execute build On Demand

– Leverage Dual Structure Browser to interrogate changes

Working “Out of Sync”

Not always desirable to push changes to product structure

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Introducing Gathering Part

> How things are modeled not always indicative of the BoM– Grouping or gathering assemblies used

– Structure needed for navigation

– …but want to filter from BoM

Desired BoM

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Introducing Gathering Parts

> How they’re displayed– Identifiable by attribute & Icon

– Gathering Parts visible in product

structure hierarchy

– Filtered from BoM reports

– Children are elevated up a level in

reports

> Ways to set value– Toggled by editing part attributes

– Drivable by CAD document

attribute

Set Gathering Part

to Yes to filter from

BOM reports

Gathering Part

children remain in

BOM report

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CAD Document Soft Typing

> Support for multiple CAD document soft types

> Administration– New Type Manager

• Define CAD document types

• Configure role based access to attribute information

• Configure Attribute layouts for Property Pages and Create UI

• Configure usage based on Authoring Application

– Tie to Templates

• Admin configure CAD document templates for availability

• Upload template part to proper type using parameter

> Usage– Drive usage based on model parameters

• Operation>Upload Operation>Upload>Soft Type Parameter

• UPLOAD_SOFT_TYPE = <logical identifier of soft type definition>

– Select during New > CAD Document action

– Create along with Part during New Part process

– Preference to configure type usage per CAD authoring application

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Select CAD

Document Type

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> Editing CAD owned structures and pushing edits back to CAD

– Adds– Removes

> Creating new structures and pushing to CAD assemblies

> Comparison of Part Structure to CAD

> Selectively execute build to update

CAD structures, pushing changes

to CAD

> Open annotated CAD structure in

CAD tool

Detailed Design

Enterprise Top Down Design Highlights

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CAD Model Parts Structure

BOM

CAD DMU

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Enterprise Top Down Design – Key Concepts

> Goal– Define a concept product architecture and

transform into detailed product structure

– Allow the creation of related CAD content and CAD

relationships based on product structure decisions

> Key Capabilities– Enable the visual comparison of Part and CAD

structures

• Create CAD documents from Parts

• Allows the editing of built product structures

– Introduce concept of a CAD structure from

Product Structure to create model structures from

Part structure

• Build selectively

• Pass attribute information from Part to CAD

documents

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Unified Workgroup Manager


CATIA® V4/V5

Windchill PDMLink – Content Management

UG-NX®

SolidWorks®

AutoCAD® Inventor®

Pro/ENGINEER

Office & Technical

Mechanical Design Electrical Design

Software

Windchill

PDMLink

Cadence Mentor Graphics

Zuken RSDesigner

ClearCaseMicrosoft

Office

IsoDraw

Mathcad

CADDS 5

I-DEAS

Co-Create

Drafting


Windchill 8.0 - 3rd Party MCAD WGM Architecture

“Hybrid Java + HTML” Architecture

Most end-user interaction provided through Java interfaces

Limited functionality provided through HTML workspace

No support for features such as Rename and Save As

Limited support for heterogeneous CAD Data Management

No common code platform - each application is maintained individually which leads to inconsistencies and duplication of effort.


Windchill 9.0 Unified Workgroup Manager Architecture

Unified WGM Approach:

Uses Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire embedded WGM launched as a separate application which interacts with 3rd Party MCAD systems.

All Workgroup Managers (including Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire) are now based on same platform.

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire3rd Party WGM & MCAD System


Benefits of Windchill 9.0 Unified Workgroup Manager Architecture

Improvements made in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire WGM are now available to all 3rd party MCAD tools

All WGMs benefit from future core PDMLink enhancements

Examples of Improved Code Sharing with Core Windchill: Details pages, reporting, revise, associate, delete, move, save as, rename.

All WGMs benefit from future Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire integration enhancements

Improved integration with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire

Reduced maintenance (previous WGMs were separate application that had to be maintained individually)

Hyperlink navigation

Reduced maintenance

Consistent user interaction experience for all MCAD Workgroup Managers

Common Windchill look and feel

Consistent end-user capabilities for all MCAD Workgroup Managers

Improved product quality and development efficiency

3rd Party WGM & CAD System

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire


Embedded HTML-based Workspace to interact with Windchill and CAD system

Navigators

• Folder• Search• Favorites• History

Message Console

A Single, Unified application for 3rd Party CAD Data Management Based on Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire - Windchill Integration.

Windchill 9.0 Unified Workgroup Manager Architecture

User Interface Layout:


9.0 Unified Workgroup Manager New Features

CAD System Embedded Menus

Server/Workspace/Application Management Tools

“Common Components” in Windchill

Automatic mapping of workspace directories

Multi-CAD System Data in Workspace

“File > Open” copies data to Workspace

Improved Messaging (Pop-ups)

Background Processing of Commands

Check In Modified Objects Only

Check Out During Check In

Improved Workspace Status Messages

Drawing Association

Improved Attribute Editing

Attribute Mapping

Sever Based Preferences

WGM Client Functionality

Details Page Actions

And more…


9.0 First Customer Shipment

CATIA V5

– CATIA V5 R16

– CATIA V5 R15

SolidWorks

– SolidWorks 2006

– SolidWorks 2005

Unigraphics

– UG NX4

– UG NX3

AutoCAD

– AutoCAD 2006

– AutoCAD 2005

Autodesk Inventor Series

– Autodesk Inventor R11

– Autodesk Inventor R10

Windchill 9.0 Workgroup Manager

Planned CAD Versions Support

9.1 Release (TBD)

CATIA V4

– CATIA V4.2.5.

CADDS5

– CADDS 5 R15

Planned Platform Support

Windows XP Pro (32 Bit)

HP-UX V11i

Solaris 10 (SPARC)

http://www.solidworks.com/index.cfm

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