The following naming conventions are used by the PTC-provided building blocks, and are recommended for use in custom building blocks.

The project name always starts with a name space, followed by building block prefix, which is the name of the building block. The building block prefix should be singular. The PTC name space is reserved for projects developed by PTC.

For example, for the shift building block provided by PTC, the project name is PTC.Shift.

Customer-created projects should use their own unique name space identifier, for example MyCompany. The project name for a custom shift building block could be MyCompany.Shift.

The name of each entity in a building block starts with the name space, followed by the building block name, and then a functional name for the entity. For most entities, the functional name is followed by a suffix indicating the entity type. Project, Data Shape, and Thing names do not include the suffix indicating the entity type.

For example, the entry point Thing Template in the PTC-provided shift building block is named PTC.Shift.EntryPoint_TT and the entry point Thing is named PTC.Shift.EntryPoint. In a custom shift building block, the entry point Thing Template could be named MyCompany.Shift.EntryPoint_TT and the entry point Thing could be named MyCompany.Shift.EntryPoint.

The following table provides example names for different entity types, including the suffix, where one is used: