Enhancement Details

In Windchill 10.1 M040, alias and calculated attributes can now be displayed on information pages, on create and edit windows, and in custom table views.

In Windchill 10.1 M040, you can group table information based on a column.

Beginning with Windchill 10.1 M040, the Windchill Configuration Assistant sets additional caches when configuring Windchill.

Windchill 10.1 M030 contains improvements to agreements functionality, including a configurable option to limit the list of configured security label values to which an agreement will apply.

In Windchill 10.1 M040, the Move feature has been updated to provide options for moving specific views and versions of an object to a new folder.

With Windchill 10.1 M030, the collection process for new promotion requests has been simplified to reduce errors.

Windchill 10.1 M040 support has been updated with additional third-party products and releases.

Windchill 10.1 M030 support has been updated with additional third-party products and releases.

Windchill 10.1 M020 supports updates for third-party platform support, including the addition of Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3), and Java 7 plug-in.

Windchill 10.1 M020 contains enhancements to the Windchill Help Center, including new content for the Windchill Options and Variants documentation and expanded capabilities for adding custom content.

Windchill 10.1 M020 includes the ability for site administrators to make different modifications to their personal Home page (as well as to the Home page that displays for all users), using the new Public and Private tabs on their Home page.

Windchill 10.1 includes new system error reporting capabilities to make it easier for a user to forward an error report and associated data to site administrators. The forwarded data makes it easier for an administrator to find log entries that will assist the debugging process. In addition, the site administrator can configure Windchill to prevent users from being exposed to stack traces when an error is reported. The initial areas of impact are Workflow and the overall default error handler. In future releases, the capabilities will be available more broadly.

In addition to full support of Creo 2.0, the Windchill 10.1 release introduces several incremental usability improvements geared towards supporting the CAD user.

With Windchill 10.1, users will have the ability to summarize tabular data into charts and graphs. This capability will be available from the Report Builder results table.

Windchill 10.1 upgrade improvements focused on increasing the reliability of the upgrade tooling, improving performance, and expanding pre-upgrade data validation.

In order to minimize clicks and improve users’ ability to interrogate objects and their related information, the Thumbnail Navigator has been improved to provide access to related information.

With Windchill 10.1, it will be possible to fix the Navigator so that it doesn’t close after every click.

Variant Specifications can now be used as Filters in PSB and Part Structure Compare. This allows the user to quickly reuse that Variant Specification when working with and comparing product structures.

The new Table Quick Entry capability allows users to quickly add data to tables in Change Management and Promotion Request window. It provides a way to easily add data when the name or number is known.

With Windchill 10.1 F000 users will be able to access content utilizing the Macintosh OS with Safari and Firefox browsers.

Windchill MPMLink 10.1 M030 now supports the creation of multiple manufacturing bills of materials (mBOMs) from multiple engineering bills of materials (eBOMs).

CAD Documents created with PTC-supported CAD tools and checked-in to PDMLink are now accessible in FlexPLM. Associate these CAD Documents to FlexPLM Products in order to provide a more complete specification.

Windchill 10.1 M040 provides the ability to perform Set State on many items at once in a product, library, or project.

In Windchill 10.1 M040, multiple assignees and reviewers can now be set when creating change tasks. You can also select additional roles that have been added to the workflow.

In Windchill 10.1 M040, two new property settings allow customers with large assemblies to break up the Add to Workspace request into multiple requests. This prevents the method server from running out of memory due to large transaction sizes.

The PTC System Monitor 2.1 release includes improvements in installation, property management, system profiles, and base functionality capabilities.

A new action in the Document Structure browser allows users to expand a document structure from one to five levels or to a unique level specified by the user.

The NX Reuse Library can be configured with Windchill using the Windchill virtual file system in the same way it can be configured as a read-only area on the local file system with native NX. The Windchill virtual file system provides the same experience to NX users who use the NX Reuse Library across the enterprise, while allowing the information to be managed in Windchill.

Windchill 10.1 M020 contains improvements to business rules for Change and Configuration Management, including updates to the maturity rule, the Rule Set table, the View Conflicts Report table, and the Related Supplier Parts and Documents table.

Windchill 10.1 M020 contains improvements to business and system administration, including the new Create Similar User feature, soft type conversion utility enhancements, support for exporting shared and system table views, support for setting part and document revisions at creation, and a new Legacy Mode for reports.

Windchill 10.1 M020 contains improvements to CAD data management, including a native Single-level CAD Document Structure Report and the ability to configure the system to build or not build the related product structure during CAD document check-in.

Windchill 10.1 M020 includes improvements to integration for Embedded Software, along with integration between Integrity and Windchill (including Requirements).

Windchill 10.1 M020 contains updates to Part Structure Compare for Change and Configuration Management, including version comparison and changes to the toolbar.

Windchill 10.1 M020 contains improvements to Product Structure Browser for Change and Configuration Management, including updates to the toolbar, the ability to expand the structure, and the ability to display documents for manufacturer and vendor parts in the structure.

Windchill 10.1 M020 contains improvements to the Relationship Explorer, including support for the localized user interface and context-sensitive right-click actions.

Windchill 10.1 M020 contains improvements to Substitute Part functionality for Change and Configuration Management by including the ability to specify more items on the substitute.

Windchill 10.1 M020 allows additional file creation to be controlled by the New Representation window.

Windchill 10.1 M020 contains improvements to Windchill Packages, including configurable options for file naming when creating an Export Only delivery file and enhancements to the offline viewer.

Windchill 10.1 M020 supports updates to Workgroup Manager, including CAD version support updates and backward compatibility for several tools.

Windchill 10.1 M020 contains improvements to Visualization, including pre selection of files specified as the default in the publish rules, and the ability to select or deselect files for the representation being created.

Integration between Windchill and Integrity for requirements management is now available with Windchill 10.1 M010. The integration combines the superior requirements authoring and management capabilities of Integrity with Windchill downstream traceability to product information.

Windchill 10.1 M010 includes new configuration management improvements.

Windchill 10.1 M010 includes Change Management usability improvements.

The Windchill Gateway for Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager is now available for Windchill 10.1 with the Windchill 10.1 M010 release, and includes support for Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager 17.0 and 18.1.

Windchill 10.1 M010 features several improvements to the Windchill FORAN Gateway integration.

Windchill 10.1 M010 supports the use of a forms-based authentication solution for user logon and logoff, and now has improved log off, session-timeout, and error handling.

The Windchill 10.1 M010 Workgroup Manager for ECAD features enhancements to Attachment Definitions, ECAD CAD document collections, Hide components, and the Import/Generate data interface to improve usability.

The Windchill 10.1 M010 Workgroup Manager for CATIA V5 provides enhancements that increase overall user productivity and improve data management.

The Windchill 10.1 Workgroup Manager now supports BluePrint-PCB.

The PTC System Monitor (PSM) is a major new separately installed module in the PTC Product Development System (PDS) that provides system administrators with state-of-the-art tools to detect, diagnose and repair problems impacting the operational health of their PLM solutions. The PSM module works to monitor both test and production systems and can be used without concern of performance impact. In the 10.1 timeframe this module is becoming generally available to all maintenance paying customers and is also compatible with all maintenance releases of Windchill 9.1 and 10.0.

The Windchill 10.1 Workgroup Manager introduces the ability to modify or add individual Autodesk Inventor iPart family table members without forcing the check out of the entire family table.

The Windchill 10.1 Workgroup Manager introduces the ability to allocate new CAD file names using Windchill auto-generated numbers in all 3rd Party MCAD tools.

Associate software issues managed within Integrity directly to Windchill information

The CATIA V5 Workgroup Manager will now expose incomplete dependent objects for missing reference documents.

The Windchill 10.1 Workgroup Managers for ECAD have significantly been improved in the areas of usability and functionality.

The Windchill 10.1 Workgroup Manager for CATIA V5 introduces support for Representations (CATShape and CGR files) and Validation Link type.

WVS in Windchill 10.1 includes a number of improvements in the control of publishing operations. The performance of loading 3D models into Creo View from Windchill is significantly improved through the use of local file caching on the user's computer.

Plans can be created in a PDMLink Product to manage, schedule and sequence work activities the same way they can be used in a ProjectLink Project.

The Windchill 10.1 Workgroup Manager for CATIA V5 allows users to create an All-In-One CATPart for Assembly designs.

With Windchill 10.1, you will be able to access Windchill on mobile devices such as iPhone and iPad via targeted (i.e. native-looking) applications, or you may be able to use the full Windchill desktop, with few limitations, on mobile devices with a Webkit-based browser.

With Windchill 10.1, it will be possible to automate common rehosting procedures to reduce the effort and time needed to validate configuration changes, upgrades, and migrations.

Using the existing Effectivity model in use for Windchill Parts, Effectivity can be set on Windchill documents.

With Windchill 10.1, Workgroup Manager has changed the definition of the "Save to Workspace" command for a number of 3rd party MCAD tools.

Combined superior requirements authoring and management capabilities of Integrity with Windchill downstream traceability to product information.

The Windchill 10.1 Workgroup Manager introduces the ability to modify or add individual NX part family instances without forcing a check out of the entire part family.

The Windchill 10.1 Workgroup Manager now supports CAM 350.

With Windchill 10.1 and Creo 2.0 AnyBOM, users have powerful new capabilities to define and manage configurable products with a shared set of options across the Windchill and Creo environments.

Associate software artifacts managed within Integrity directly to Windchill information.

Associate software artifacts managed within Integrity directly to Windchill information.

CATIA Material (CATMaterial) and referenced image files can now be managed in Windchill.

In addition to existing protocol based (basic) authentication, Windchill now provides support for HTML forms-based authentication.

Windchill 10.1 provides you with increased visibility to what is inclued in or excluded from the package contents.

The Windchill Workgroup Manager for CATIA V5 now extracts the CATIA Manufacturing information from the CATProcess Product Process Resource (PPR) and makes it available for downstream processing in MPMLink.

Variant Specifications can now be used as filters in PSB and Part Structure Compare. This allows one to quickly reuse that Variant Specification when working with and comparing product structures.

The Windchill 10.1 Workgroup Manager will support three versions of AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, and SolidWorks.

With Windchill 10.1, Workgroup Manager Workspace Import/Export performance, robustness, and scalability have been improved for a number of 3rd Party MCAD tools.

View interconnected product information within a single graphical user interface.

A new Visualization Tab has been added to the Process Plan tree in the HTML detail page. The tab will display the 3D mockup of parts allocated to the Process Plan allowing displaying build up sequence of the related assembly in visualization.

Windchill 10.1 M040 supports the .idr file extension, which was introduced with Arbortext IsoDraw 7.3 F000.

In Windchill 10.1 M030, PTC Windchill PDM Essentials is a new preconfigured and packaged solution designed for rapid, small deployments by customers with basic PDM and MCAD data management needs.