Lots of other postings / discussion about how to handle users who have left. General concensus is to never delete any, but to remove from all active groups and put in a "DeActivatedUsers" group.
There a host of cleanup activities that should occur for each user, including addressing subscriptions. Haven't seen any good procedure from this from PTC. We have a query builder report that allows finding subscriptions; it's a bit complex because they could have been created for that user by others.
perhaps I understand the problem.
my license in assistance is to pdm essentials and so I dont see INTRALINK
i will ask for assistance
thank you
In 15 years dealing with Windchill I've seen this exact thing asked 10,000 times. The how-to is all there from PTC but buried pretty deep. Would be nice to have a simple and concise cheat sheet of the top maybe 20 simple customizations like this.
When you save and then close enumcustomize, notice that is says that a process has actually occurred - and you can see the result in /Windchill/wtCustom/lifecycle/ - this file includes the states added using enumcustomize. All states still need to be made available to the databse thru the .jar rebuild process noted above. If curious, you can see the results of this in the database directly.
Same named global attributes are driven from CAD to WTPart upon check or build. Unless you have a preference set in EPMBuild Preferences.Do you have your attributes appear correctly on the CAD document?
Please see attached document. Puzzled what is going on.
We seem to have a zillion drawings that behave this way.
Are there family table instances? Have you looked at the trail file on the CAD worker? Is there a traceback file?
I'm not sure the number of objects is the issue. If you made it to thumbnail generation, the drawing conversion is already finished. The thumbnail is simply created from the resulting object. I think it is possible to disable thumbnail generation in the recipe file. Might be worth trying that as well.
To be precise, I should have described it as different number of "objects" vs. "files." Seems that it should be 1:1 for CAD worker workspace and user workspace.
I have in fact tried turning off thumbnail generation and when doing so, these jobs complete w/o no issue. But, it's very helpful to have the thumbnails in general.
Where to look for what is happening after the drawing has been processed while it's trying to create a thumbnail? Note: thumbnail.exe shows in the task mgr with a fairly high memory use.
When you open the drawing with Creo (to make the PVZ), how many files end up in your workspace? If you do a "Save-a-backup" from Creo, how many files end up on disk?
I don't see an executable called "thumbnail.exe" on my CAD worker. Are you referring to the CAD worker or the Windchill server?
When the recipe option is checked, I believe Creo actually creates the thumbnails, but I'm not positive...
Lots of configuration can done for thumbnails if they are generated by the cadworker. The cadworker uses pvsthumb.exe to create the thumbnails from the just created pvz file (like Tom just mentioned).
Take a look at CS46170: https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS46170
This issue actually deals with complex models more so than drawings. I have set the following 2 windchill properties:
thumbnail.generator.extents = false
thumbnail.cadagenttimeout = 10800
I have also set adapter/useMinMemTriCount to a very large number in thumbnail.rcp. From PTC Tech Support about adapter/useMinMemTriCount:
"In Creo View Adapters CAD model geometry is interpreted as triangles count.
Out of the box Creo View Adapters are configured to use Minimum Memory for thumbnail generation when count reached 5000000.
In our case as a workaround we are increasing this triangles count to 15000000 so that it will not go for Minimum Memory consumption (RAM) mode during Thumbnail generation.
During in-house testing I am able to generate thumbnail in about 20-30 minutes with modified value where it took hours with default value."
So basically this controls how much memory pvsthumb.exe can use when creating thumbnails. Upping this (if you have the memory) will greatly speed up thumbnail generation. My proe2pv.rcp file. Note how it includes the thumbnail.rcp file:
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file=proe2pv-rcp
ver=5
lastp=gen
adapter/outputAuthorState=1
adapter/outputGzipDWG=1
adapter/outputDatumCurve=1
adapter/outputAnnotPlanar=1
adapter/outputAnnotFloat=1
adapter/outputAnnotScreen=1
adapter/useTransparency=1
adapter/regenerateModel=1
adapter/regenerateDrawing=1
adapter/pdfFontControl=1
adapter/pdfUsePenTable=1
adapter/useTexture=1
adapter/serverVersion=1020
adapter/proeCommand=c:\/ptc\/creo3.0\/Creo 3.0\/M120\/Parametric\/bin\/cp_fv.bat
adapter/timeoutShortHelper=4800
adapter/timeoutLongHelper=5400
adapter/plotter=cadworker_color
adapter/sourceOutputRemove=1
adapter/thumbRecipe=C:\\home\\cadwrkr\\thumbnail.rcp
adapter/useHelperRestart=0
adapter/abortErrorList=56290
adapter/failErrorList=56123 56125 56328
adapter/outputPView=1200
======================================================
And my thumbnail.rcp file:
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file=pvsthumb-rcp
ver=5
lastp=gen
adapter/createSubModel=-1
adapter/useMinMemTriCount=1500000000
adapter/outputPView=1100
======================================================
Screenshot of the pvsthumb.exe that creates the thumbnails on the cadworker:
How to configure a Thumbnail Worker for Windchill PDMLink
https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS38902
Try something like this and it should work.
| boolean flag = false; | |
| WTPartUsageLink usageLink = new WTPartUsageLink(); |
| try { |
| System.out.println("Querying for the part " + part.getIdentity()); | |
| if (!WorkInProgressHelper.isCheckedOut(part)) { | |
| part = (WTPart) WorkInProgressHelper.service | |
| .checkout(part, WorkInProgressHelper.service.getCheckoutFolder(), "checked out") | |
| .getWorkingCopy(); | |
| } | |
| QueryResult queryResult = WTPartHelper.service.getUsesWTParts(part, new LatestConfigSpec()); | |
| while (queryResult.hasMoreElements()) { | |
| WTPart cpart = null; | |
| Persistable[] persistable = (Persistable[]) queryResult.nextElement(); | |
| cpart = (WTPart) persistable[1]; | |
| System.out.println("Child Part " + cpart.getNumber()); | |
| usageLink = (WTPartUsageLink) persistable[0]; | |
| PersistableAdapter obj = new PersistableAdapter(usageLink, null, Locale.US, | |
| new UpdateOperationIdentifier()); | |
| obj.load("testurl"); | |
| obj.set("testurl", "https:\\\\google.com\\ (Google)"); | |
| usageLink = (WTPartUsageLink) obj.apply(); | |
| wt.fc.PersistenceHelper.manager.modify(usageLink); | |
| flag = true; | |
| } |
| if (WorkInProgressHelper.isCheckedOut(part)) { | |
| WorkInProgressHelper.service.checkin(part, ""); | |
| } |
| } catch (WTException | WTPropertyVetoException e) { | |
| e.printStackTrace(); | |
| } | |
| return flag; | |
| } | |
| } |
Has anyone any suggestions for this?
Thanks
Antonio
I'm afraid you can't.
In EnumerationInfoProvider, the initalize method is called only once.
Once it's done, you can only invalidate the cache, but you can't pass any parameters.
Even if you change the enumeration's content, it's global, ie in case of concurrent acces, you may encounter some trange behavior !
A solution is to create your own JCA component to manage the attribute.
Hi,
On Windchill PDMLink 10.1 when I have a faulty purge my disk space increases. How do you make to retrieve this space on my HDD ? nd why do I have this?
Thanks for your replies.
Regards
D. Guichard
Oooo.. nice.
And in fact I managed to implement the email link -idea (thanks!) BUT the whole thing only works with Firefox, not IE 11.
The "whole thing" meaning what Binesh suggested above
it is as if IE is looking for "banner_en.txt" in the same location as the "banner.txt" mentioned in the support article.
I'm doing this on 10.2 M030
What the language setting in your browser? Internet option > Languages. it works for us on IE11 with 10.2M030
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Thanks for your answer.
Unfortunately, when I open in WINDCHILL -- "QUICK LINKS"--> "MY SETTINGS" --> "PREFERENCES" I cannot see any "EPMBuild Preferences List" . Maybe because of my limited permissions? I would like to work more effectively with "Owner Link"
For example: The Parameter "MATL" in creo maps to "MATERIAL SPECIFICATION" in WINDCHILL.
And I wonder which CAD (creo) Attribute drives e.g. "COATING SPECIFICATION SUPPLEMENTS" in WINDCHILL.
I would appreciate if I was able to get a list about those mappings.
Best regards
Norbert
I'm trying to create a report with query builder that shows WTParts with IBAs & two different WTDocument types with their IBAs associated with that WTPart. I've been able to show the WTPart with it's IBAs & the documents. But when I add IBAs from one of my WTDocuments, I receive many duplicate results. Does anyone know what I can do to prevent these duplicate results?
Is it possible for a given part number (eg ANNNANNN) to create "Design" View in a Design Product Container (eg:DEMO) and "Manufacturing" View in a Plant Product/Library container (PLANT1) for better access controls across Engineering and Manufacturing organization. Based on the community discussions and the earlier windchill versions this use case was not possible.
But what we have observed in WC11 M010 is , we are able to create Part's (ANNNANNN) Manufacturing View in different context (PLANT1) other than Design view context (DEMO)through mAPSB .After successful creation of the view, in the mAPSB under context column its showing the Design view context (DEMO) but in the View information page of part's "Manufacturing"View its showing the actual context (PLANT1).
Please let me know if anyone has observed this behavior and is it issue with WC11.
Appreciate your response and if any one has implemented such use cases.
- Raj