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A software solution from PTC that manages Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) content and processes

History

Windchill was originally developed by Windchill Technology Inc., which was co-founded by Jim Heppelmann, the current President and CEO of PTC. When PTC acquired Windchill Technology, Heppelmann joined the company as senior vice president.[2] Windchill first launched in 1998 and was promoted as the first to market with an internet based PLM solution. In 2001, Windchill ProjectLink launched as a solution for project collaboration and in 2002, Windchill PDMLink launched as a solution for product data management

Market

The Windchill user base ranges from individuals to large corporations. Most customers are in the following manufacturing market segments: Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Electronics & High-Tech, Industrial Products, Medical Devices, and Retail, Footwear & Apparel. Commercial sales are made through a combination of a direct sales force as well as an indirect sale channel. Directly competitive products to Windchill include Teamcenter by Siemens, ENOVIA by Dassault Systèmes and Agile by Oracle.

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windchill_(software)

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How to get sequence number in windchill through API

How to get sequence number for WT.Part or Wt.Document in Windchill through API? When I create WT.Part - number automatically generated. But I can not find any method that returns the next number. I'm using Info*Engine.
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Does it make sense to create tests like this?

lately I'm coming deeper into unit tests and I kind of stuck. Example. we have method like this: boolean isCheckOutChecked(NmCommandBean clientData) { return "checkOut".equalsIgnoreCase(clientData.getTextParameter("checkOut")); } Most of it…
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PTC WindChill how to get started?

I want some recommendations on things to read, tutorials, etc on PTC WindChill. And know your opinion about them. Also I'd like you to tell about any tricky problems or things or common pitfalls.
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Import classes in method?

I'm customizing a PLM Windchill Workflow, which provides a mechanism to execute java code snippets. Unfortunately, they are 'inserted' into prepared service's method, which means that there is no way to import classes, so I have to include full…
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How to retrieve Part/BOM from Windchill using Java?

My organization has an existing installation of Windchill and PDMLink and we are interested in integrating the Part and BOM data from those systems with third-party systems in the Enterprise. Our intention is to write a Java app that pulls data from…
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Windchill REST API endpoint to fill BOM from file

We are developing an internal project to use the Windchill OData REST API to fill the eBOM for a given part. What we are trying to do here is to read data from another software we have to get the BOM info and send it to the part in windchill. But we…
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Retrieve folder contents from Windchill API

We want to use the Windchill API for integrating Windchill into our application. I know how to get the folder structure, but I don't know how to get folder contents. I would like to get the list of documents by supplying the folder as parameter. I…
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Access to XMLHttpRequest at due to CORS in complex server situation

I've got two servers, both of which I control. One is a thingworx server that talks to the other, a windchill server, and displays my web page. I've got a thingworx mashup that talks to the windchill server. It pulls images and pdf from the…
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Querying database of Windchill using SQL

Many vendors such as Microsoft with Sharepoint and Dynamics have made it impossible to access database tables directly in newer versions as they convert to Software as Service (SAS) offerings. I am working with PTC Windchill and have developed…
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PTC WindChill query reads deleted links too

I'm trying to query a WindChill database to get all child parts of a given part (assembly). What I have right now is this: -- this is how sql server management studio rewrites an oracle join SELECT M1.WTPARTNUMBER AS COMPONENT, M2.WTPARTNUMBER AS…
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Exporting all windchill usernames

I'm looking for a way to export all the usernames in the windchill system. Ultimately the goal probably will be to import those names into an excel spreadsheet. Any suggestions? As a side note, (and please forgive me if I misuse terms here), what…
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How to revise WTPartDescribeLink?

I have a WTPart object and it have some Describe link(as WTDocument) associated with it.Now I need to revise the describe link through code. Following is the code I have tried so far Vector localVector=new Vector(); QueryResult…
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Jsp page need not to be Displayed

I have a jsp page from which I'm calling a Java class. That class contains code for pdf generation. Now when I click the button an empty jsp also displays along with the pdf. I wish that jsp page will not get open when I click the button. Only that…
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How to extend paging session timeout value?

I am trying to use paging query on Windchill, but always get paging session timeout exeception if a sesssion lasts longer than 30 min. The method PagingSessionHelper.extendTimeout(long sessionID) changes nothing. PTC Solution says this issue has…
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Windchill REST API Get all WorkItems

We want to create a list with tasks of all users by using the Windchill REST API. We used the GET/WorkItems Endpoint to get the list. Windchill/servlet/odata/v3/Workflow/WorkItems It works fine for those tasks, who are associatet with the user who…
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