Enhancement Details

Product Structure and Configuration Management

Windchill PDMLink 10.0 provides significant enhancements in editing and viewing product structures within the browser environment. Additionally, there is a new filter capability providing robust configuration control to display interesting product configurations including by configuration specification, spatial location, and attributes. Further improvements are made in the areas of product structure compare and history display.

Product Information

Benefits and Description

Key capabilities of Windchill PDMLink 10.0 includes the ability to:

• Edit and view part structures in the new HTML based Product Structure Browser (PSB):
  • View and edit product structures.
  • Update product structures with new and existing parts.
  • Edit part usage attributes in the Uses Tab.
  • ProductView embedded into the PSB allows visualization of the parts with cross selection highlighting and spatial filtering.
  • View and update related information such as documents, CAD documents, requirements and more.
  • Occurrences tab allows viewing and editing of Reference Designator and other occurrence specific information.
  • Ribbon-like toolbar organized around user needs.
  • Quickly find parts in the structure tree with Find in Structure search which highlights matches and gives quick navigation to the next or previous match.
  • Launch compare tools, reports, add to project, packages and more as well as create changes and promotion requests from PSB.
  • Configure display for user preference with 2 and 3 panel views and drag panels across views.
• Filter tool allows the creation of rich part configurations:
  • Create configuration specification filters with multiple levels to create real world configuration needs.
  • Filter product structures based upon spatial location (sphere or box filter) or proximity to a component.
  • Create filters based upon part and usage attributes.
  • Configuration, spatial and attribute filters are combined to create sophisticated filters for product structure.
• Timeline History Component:
  • Single graphical component that captures and displays maturity, revision, move, rename and save-as history.
  • Add filters to the timeline to see items based upon view, revision, date and text filters.
• Structure Compare:
  • Launch from PSB, information pages or folder browser.
  • Set the filter criteria for two parts being compared.
  • Compares difference in structures across levels of the structure.
  • Differences between structures are highlighted by icon color as well as tooltips.
  • Differences in usage attributes, child parts, replacement parts, or if there is no equivalent part from one side to another.
  • Back and forward buttons allow easy navigation from one difference to the next.
  • Tabs in the structure compare tool also give more information on differences in part and usage attributes.
  • Visualization information is accessible to see the parts being compared as well.
• Integer Series:
  • Users can now create tailored Integer series for revisions schemes similar to Havard and Milspec series.
  • These are defined and managed in the wt.properties file
  • They can be applied to any Version controlled object with similar techniques to other available series.

Multimedia

Images Product Structure Browser (PSB) Structure Compare