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Best Practices Regarding Windchill Workspace Management

Modified: 15-Oct-2025   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 9.1 to 13.1
  • Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire 4.0 to Wildfire 5.0
  • Creo Parametric 1.0 to 12.4
  • Windchill ProjectLink 9.1 to 11.2
  • Windchill PDM Essentials 10.1 to 11.2
  • Pro/INTRALINK 8.x + 9.1 to 11.2
  • Windchill Workgroup Manager

Description

  • Workspace management best practices and recommendations
  • What can be done in the Workspace to improve performance?
  • What table displays does PTC recommend to improve Workspace refresh performance?
  • Is there anything that can be done to improve performance of Workspace Update, Synchronize or Refresh performance?
  • Is it recommended to reinitialize the client Windchill cache and how frequently?
  • Should the same Workspace be used when working with different sets of objects?
  • What will happen if there are too much items in workspace? How many objects should the user add to workspace at the most?
  • It takes a long time to refresh workspace after clicking when there are lots of top assemblies in the workspace. Is it possible to improve it?
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