PTC Windchill Toolbar
The PTC Windchill toolbar in CATIA V5 provides easy access to Windchill PDM actions. When a PDM action does not apply to the selected object, the action is unavailable.
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PTC_TOOLBAR_ENABLED is the environment variable that creates the PTC Windchill toolbar when CATIA V5 is registered. By default it is set to true.
The toolbar contains the following icons.
Icon
CATIA – Windchill Action
Opens Windchill Workgroup Manager for CATIA V5.
Displays Windchill information about the root node of the CATIA model currently in session.
Opens a document from the workspace or the commonspace
Inserts a component into CATIA V5 from Windchill
Replaces a component in CATIA V5 from Windchill
Saves and uploads the document to a workspace
Generates and checks in a CATIA V5 All-In-One CATPart
Checks in the document interactively (custom checkin)
Checks in the active document using the default values for the action (automatic checkin)
Checks out the active document
Revises and checks out the active document
Undoes a checkout for the active model
Updates the active document with information from Windchill
Updates all currently active documents with information from Windchill
Opens the Server Management utility
Opens the Event Management utility to view PDM transaction status for the primary server
Opens the Workgroup Manager help
Switch to include components (Design In Context only)
Switch to exclude components (Design In Context only)
Switch the currently selected assemblies to Structure Mode (Heterogeneous Design In Context and Super CGRs only)
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Most PDM actions are also available by right-clicking. However, right-click actions are only applicable to CATProducts, CATParts, and CATDrawings.
Disabling the CATIA V5 Toolbar
To disable the toolbar:
1. Unregister CATIA V5 as an application and close both CATIA V5 and Windchill Workgroup Manager for CATIA V5.
2. Set the PTC_TOOLBAR_ENABLED environment variable to f:
3. Launch the Windchill Workgroup Manager and register CATIA V5 as an authoring application.
4. Launch the CATIA V5 application.
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