Enhancement Details

Enhancements to the PTC Windchill Aerospace and Defense Module (WADM) for PTC Windchill 10.2 include robust configuration management capabilities designed to support large and complex product designs. New configuration management capabilities are optional upon installation.

PTC Windchill 10.2 contains a security update to prevent malicious OS file command injections for the command used to start workers.

PTC Windchill Enterprise Systems Integration 10.2 supports the publication of option sets to enterprise production systems, such as SAP and Oracle Manufacturing.

When working with PTC Creo 2.0 or PTC Windchill Workgroup Manager 10.2, the PTC Windchill 10.2 Upload action in the workspace has been expanded. This expansion increases the number of states for which CAD content can be uploaded from the client-side workspace to the server-side workspace. These states include local modifications that are not checked out and CAD documents that have duplicate filenames.

When working with PTC Creo 2.0 or PTC Windchill Workgroup Manager 10.2, the PTC Windchill 10.2 workspace refresh and synchronize actions are more efficient. This enhancement results in improved performance and responsiveness of these two actions.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, the Edit Group action is available from an information page launched from the Teams table as well as from the Organization > Groups table.

PTC Windchill 10.2 provides increased visibility to participant status with the introduction of a new Status attribute and status icons.

PTC Windchill 10.2 offers multiple enhancements to the Type and Attribute Management functionality, including enhancements to attribute layouts, constraints, calculated attributes, and support for languages added after installation.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, support for managing Windchill on a server cluster has been improved.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, support for Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) has been improved.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, support for SQL Server High Availability Clusters has been added.

PTC Windchill 10.2 support has been updated with additional third-party products and releases.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, the Upgrade Manager supports SOX financial regulations.

PTC Windchill 10.2 includes significant enhancements to the import/export capabilities in Microsoft Excel. These capabilities provide a more robust ability to import and export data as well as a simplified and easier user process flow. Together, these make it faster than ever to work with Microsoft Excel in the PTC Windchill PDMLink environment.

In PTC Windchill 10.2 M010, rules have been added to allow collection of ECAD boards, schematics, and derived objects.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, there is integration support for the Cadence ADW Team Design Option authoring application. In this release, support is provided for customer evaluation purposes only, with additional features planned for the PTC Windchill 10.2 M010 release.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, an automated logging tool is available to gather logs for troubleshooting purposes.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, autonumbering is available in family table instances for SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, and NX CAD tools.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, context-sensitive PDM actions are available in PTC Windchill Workgroup Manager for CATIA V5.

PTC Windchill 10.2 allows users to generate Windchill part structures from AutoCAD blocks.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, usability improvements are available for offline external collaboration using Windchill packages.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, importable packages allow Windchill-to-Windchill collaboration in one direction with external partners on select product design data.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, Relationship Explorer provides support for all Windchill common artifacts. Other improvements include enhanced viewing capabilities in the actions toolbar, expansion of multiple levels, navigation across relationships, and content on the Welcome page.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, replication packages allow a one-directional exchange of select product design data from one internal Windchill system to another internal Windchill system.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, users can control document checkout prompts and save local versions of Windchill documents.

PTC Windchill 10.2 provides SolidWorks, NX, CATIA V5, AutoCAD, and Autodesk Inventor users with the ability to launch the New CAD Document command directly from their CAD application.

PTC Windchill 10.2 provides out-of-the-box templates for new CAD documents in SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, and AutoCAD.

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

In PTC Windchill 10.2, users have greater control over Desktop Integration Client (DTI) prompts, download behavior, and preferences.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, performance enhancements have been made for PTC Windchill Workgroup Manager for CATIA V5.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, users have additional structure compare functionality and can select multiple rows in the part structure when performing certain actions.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, the performance of the Update action has been improved for PTC Windchill Workgroup Manager for CATIA V5.

PTC Windchill 10.2 provides the option to apply a filter to manage PDM objects shared to projects.

PTC Windchill 10.2 improves SolidWorks Configuration handling by providing an option that allows individual instances to be modified.

PTC Windchill 10.2 introduces support for AutoCAD Electrical projects.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, it is possible to use Content Center libraries in conjunction with the PTC Windchill Workgroup Manager.

PTC Windchill 10.2 enables the Autodesk Inventor Frame Generator module to be used effectively with Windchill by generating unique file names.

PTC Windchill 10.2 enables iAssembly Factories to be managed effectively by maintaining the correct relationships between the factory and its members.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, users can create templates for change notice objects.

PTC Windchill 10.2 allows PTC Windchill Workgroup Manager users to lock and unlock workspace objects.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, Relationship Explorer provides a single user interface for viewing requirements on PTC Windchill and related objects residing in PTC Integrity.

PTC Windchill 10.2 has implemented the Windchill File System (WFS) for the PTC Windchill Workgroup Manager for SolidWorks. This approach enables SolidWorks to access files in Windchill as if they were in folders on the local file system.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, users have enhanced functionality to manage Windchill documents through Windows Explorer.

The integration of PTC Integrity and PTC Windchill Requirements Management has been extended to provide enhanced capabilities and a more seamless support for requirements objects and processes.

In PTC Windchill 10.2, users can manage a classification structure in a single location from within PTC Windchill using the new Classification Administration function.

With PTC Windchill 10.2, both the content and the functionality of the PTC Windchill Help Center have been enhanced to support user adoption and improve the user experience.