Enhancement Details

In PTC Windchill 10.1 M050, PTC Windchill Business Reporting is powered by Cognos 10.2.

In Windchill 10.1 M050, PTC Windchill PLM Connector includes several new features and enhancements.

In PTC Windchill 10.1 M050, several enhancements have been made to improve the user experience and the performance of PTC Windchill Workgroup Manager for CATIA V5.

In Windchill 10.1 M050, Windchill Directory Server now uses OpenDJ v2.6.

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

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.

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, 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.

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

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

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 M030, you can now choose a default task type to apply to all existing activities when converting to an EPP plan from a classic project.

In Windchill 10.1 M030, automatically executed plans now include several enhancements to provide a greater degree of control and predictability when scheduling and executing activities.

Windchill 10.1 M030 provides project managers with additional controls when assigning resources and scheduling tasks, including several tools and enhancements to improve predictability during project planning and execution.

In Windchill 10.1 M030, all EPP plans provide greater control when values are entered, displayed, and calculated. This includes a redesigned layout when creating and editing activities.

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 contains enhancements to Windchill ProjectLink meetings, including a new Related Objects tab, the ability to generate meeting agendas and minutes as PDFs, and simplification of the meeting creation process.

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

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 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.

Windchill 10.1 M010 includes new configuration management improvements.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The Windchill 10.1 Workgroup Manager now supports CAM 350.

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

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.

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.

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