Frequently Used Preferences in the Windchill Preference Management Utility (CATIA V5)

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This topic lists the most frequently used preferences that you can set or modify depending on your Windchill role, and not every preference that can be set using the Preference Management utility. For a complete list of preferences that can be set for Windchill Workgroup Manager for CATIA V5, refer to the Preference Management utility in Windchill.

• Descriptions for these preferences are available within the Windchill Preference Management utility Set Preference window.

• Preferences by the same name, managed in the wgmclient.ini file on the client system, have priority.

Preferences Under Operation

To view the server-side preferences that can be set from the Operation category and its subcategories, refer Operation Preferences.

Preferences Under Workgroup Manager Client

The following table describes the most frequently used preferences that can be set or modified from the Workgroup Manager Client category and subcategories.

Name

Context

Values

Add Active Workspace To CATIA DLNames List

• Site

• Organizations

• Yes

• No

All-in-One CATPart Creation with Merging all Bodies

• Site

• Organizations

• Yes

• No

All-in-One CATPart name

• Site

• Organizations

_AllCATPart

Allow Continuing Save to Workspace or Checkin When Missing Design Table File

• Site

• Organizations

• Yes

• No

Allow to save in different environment

• Site

• Organizations

• Yes

• No

Assembly-level CGR parameter

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

Part Parameter

CATIA V5 Template Part Number

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

Part Number

Design In Context > Assembly Template Used In New Image Design Context Action

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

ProductTemplate.CATProduct

Design In Context > Assembly Template Used In New Image Design Context Action > CATIA V5

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

ProductTemplate.CATProduct

Design In Context > Attribute skipping image update

• Site

• Organizations

• True

• False

Design In Context > Default Design Context Definition Rule

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

• User

• Assembly Only

• Full

• Lightweight

• Geometry

Design In Context > Default Representation

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

• User

• Full

• Lightweight

• Geometry

Design In Context > Default Template for Open in Creo View/CAD Tool

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

• User

Design In Context > Hide wizard when creating a Design Context from a Configuration Context

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

• User

• Yes

• No

Design In Context > Show Excluded Nodes

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

• User

• Yes

• No

Design In Context > Show New Design Context Action

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

• Yes

• No

Disable Check out on the fly

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

• Check out – Disable the Conflicts (for Check out on the fly) window and check out the document.

• Revise and Check out – Disable the Conflicts (for Check out on the fly) window; revise and check out the document.

• Continue – Disable the Conflicts (for Check out on the fly) window and continue to save the document without a checkout.

Documents that are not explicitly checked out are not eligible for check in.

• No – (default) Enables the display of the Conflicts (for Check out on the fly) window.

Design In Context > Show Open Context In Actions

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

• Yes

• No (default)

If this preference is set to "Yes", the system will display the "Open Context In" actions on model structure report

Enable Environment Management

• Site

• Organizations

• Yes

• No

Enable Read Only In Session

• Site

• Organizations

• Yes

• No

Enable Replace in CAD Session on Refresh

• Site

• Organizations

• Yes

• No

Enable Support for Parameters or Properties with Units

• Site

• Organizations

• Yes

• No

Environment Management Parameter

• Site

• Organizations

PTC_WM_ENVMGMT

Expose Annotation Text Notes From Specification Tree

• Site

• Organizations

• Yes

• No

Expose Manufacturing Information

• Site

• Organizations

• Yes

• No

Expose Measure Inertia Property

• Site

• Organizations

• Blank

• PartBody

Expose Parameters under Specific Geometrical Set From Specification Tree

• Site

• Organizations

• Blank

• Names

• All

Family Table Instance Creation > Manage model instances as family table CAD Documents

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

• All

• Assembly

• Parts

• Disable

Identify Standard Part

• Site

• Organizations

Ignore Missing Dependents

• Site

• Organizations

• Yes

• No

Independently Modify Instances

• Site

• Organizations

• Yes

• No

Managed Environment Variable

• Site

• Organizations

Managed Read Only Area Folders

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

Mapping System Attributes and File Properties > CAD Document Iteration System Attribute

• Site

• Organizations

• PTC_WM_ITERATION

• CAD Document Iteration System Attribute

Mapping System Attributes and File Properties > CAD Document Life Cycle State System Attribute

• Site

• Organizations

• PTC_WM_LIFECYCLE_STATE

• CAD Life Cycle State System Attribute

Mapping System Attributes and File Properties > CAD Document Life Cycle System Attribute

• Site

• Organizations

• PTC_WM_LIFECYCLE

• CAD Life Cycle System Attribute

Mapping System Attributes and File Properties > CAD Document Name System Attribute

• Site

• Organizations

• PTC_WM_NAME

• CAD System Attribute

Mapping System Attributes and File Properties > CAD Document Number System Attribute

• Site

• Organizations

• PTC_WM_NUMBER

• CAD System Attribute

Mapping System Attributes and File Properties > Created By Attribute

• Site

• Organizations

The default name is set to a blank value.

Setting the property name to PTC_WM_CREATED_BY creates the property that displays the name of the user that created the CAD document.

Mapping System Attributes and File Properties > Created On Attribute

• Site

• Organizations

The default name is set to a blank value.

Setting the property name to PTC_WM_CREATED_ON creates the property that displays the date and time when the CAD document was created.

The Date.Type.Parameter.Format preference in the wgmclient.ini file controls the date and time string.

Mapping System Attributes and File Properties > Modified By Attribute

• Site

• Organizations

The default name is set to a blank value.

Setting the property name to PTC_WM_MODIFIED_BY creates the property that displays the name of the user that last modified the CAD document.

Mapping System Attributes and File Properties > Modified On Attribute

• Site

• Organizations

The default name is set to a blank value.

Setting the property name to PTC_WM_MODIFIED_ON creates the property that displays the date and time when the CAD document was last modified.

The Date.Type.Parameter.Format preference in the wgmclient.ini file controls the date and time string.

Mapping System Attributes and File Properties > Organization ID System Attribute

• Site

• Organizations

• PTC_WM_ORGANIZATION_ID

• <CAD System Attribute>

Mapping System Attributes and File Properties > Part Name System Attribute

• Site

• Organizations

• PTC_WM_PART_NAME

• CAD System Attribute

Mapping System Attributes and File Properties > Part Number System Attribute

• Site

• Organizations

• PTC_WM_PART_NUMBER

• CAD System Attribute

Mapping System Attributes and File Properties > Revision System Attribute

• Site

• Organizations

• PTC_WM_REVISION

• CAD System Attribute

Note default soft type

• Site

• Organizations

${internet_domain_name}.Note

Open Collector > Include Dependent CAD/Dynamic Documents

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

• User

• Required

• All

• None

Open Collector > Include Related Drawings

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

• User

• None

• All

• Initially Selected

Open In CAD Tool for Non-native Objects

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

• User

• Yes

• No

Set CAD Component Name

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

Controls whether the CATIA V5 instance name is mapped to the component name in the CAD structure and used as the reference designator in the Windchill WTPart structure.

• Yes (default)—Maps the instance name to Windchill and propagates it to the Reference Designator column in the Windchill Occurrences tab.

• No—Does not map the instance name to Windchill. The Reference Designator column remains blank.

Resolve Broken Links Using CATIA Instance Name

• Site

• Yes

• No

Save data with active environment

• Site

• Organizations

• Yes

• No

Store formula values for parameters

• Site

• Yes

• No

Storing exported files

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

• Attachment

• Windchill CAD Document

Undo Checkout Overwrite Local Content

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

• User

• Yes

• No

Un-managed Read Only Area locations

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

• User

Update Overwrite Local Content

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

• User

• Yes

• No

Upload After Native Save

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

• User

• Yes

• No

Upload CAD/Dynamic Document and Attachment Filter

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

• User

• CAD/Dynamic Document Type

• Attachment File Type

• Content Category

Upload CGR files

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

• Yes

• No

Upload CGR files > CATIA V5

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• Libraries

• Yes

• No

Mapping Custom System Attributes and File Properties

Site

Specifies the additional attributes from the objects related to the CAD document that are shown as parameters or properties in the CAD tool.

• When you upgrade from an older release to Windchill 11.1 M020, a performance issue may be observed when you open a large CAD assembly saved in the previous release with one of the above properties configured with non-empty name. This is because for Windchill 11.1 M020 onwards, the Windchill Workgroup Manager enforces to propagate additional Windchill system attributes to CAD models when opening CAD documents from Windchill by default. This propagation of the Windchill system attributes increases the loading time of the files as compared to that without propagating these attributes.

• If these Windchill system attributes are not a part of your requirement, you can ignore these attributes by setting their attribute names to blank values. The Windchill Workgroup Manager will not propagate the Windchill system attributes to CAD models and performance degradation for legacy data will be avoided. The following image displays how the Windchill server preference setting were set and the default system attributes were propagated.

Preferences Under Workspace

The following table describes the most frequently used preferences that can be set or modified from the Workspace category and subcategories.

Name

Context

All Values

Add to Workspace and Check Out > Add Primary Contents to Workspace

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• User

• DOWNLOAD

• LINK

Add to Workspace and Check Out > Add to Workspace Collector <preference name>

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• User

Select the preference and the appropriate value from the list of preferences for CATIA V5.

There are several preferences that can be set for CATIA V5 under Workspace > Add to Workspace and Check Out > Add to Workspace Collector <preference name>.

Add to Workspace and Check Out > Automatically lock objects added to workspace

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• User

• Yes

• No

Add to Workspace and Check Out > Check Out Collector <preference name>

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• User

Select the preference and the appropriate value from the list of preferences for CATIA V5.

There are several preferences that can be set for CATIA V5 under Workspace > Add to Workspace and Check Out > Check Out Collector <preference name>.

Add to Workspace and Check Out > Open in Application

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• User

• Yes

• No

Add to Workspace and Check Out > Reuse Modified Workspace Content

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• User

• Yes

• No

Add to Workspace and Check Out > Set Filter for Add to Workspace

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• User

• DEFAULT

• LATEST

• AS_STORED

Add to Workspace and Check Out > Set Filter for Check Out

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• User

• DEFAULT

• LATEST

• AS_STORED

Add to Workspace and Check Out > Set for Check Out

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• User

• SELECTED_AND_MODIFIED

• SELECTED

• ALL

• REQUIRED

Add to Workspace and Check Out > Use Advanced Tab as Default

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• User

• Yes

• No

Out of Date Check

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• User

Controls whether the out-of-date check is enabled for the embedded workspace listing and working copy of the CAD Document information pages.When enabled, the system performs a periodic check on whether any content in the local workspace is out-of-date relative to the commonspace.

• Yes—Enables the workspace page out-of-date check feature. If the content in local workspace is out of date, an out-of-date indicator icon is displayed next to the action menu on the top of the workspace listing and the working copy of the CAD document information pages.

• No—Disables the workspace page out-of-date check feature.

Export from Workspace > Collector > <preference name>

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• User

Select the preference and the appropriate value from the list of preferences for CATIA V5.

There are several preferences that can be set for CATIA V5 under Workspace > Export from Workspace > Collector <preference name>.

Workspace Display

• Site

• Organizations

• Products

• Projects

• User

• All items

• Featured items

Revise Preferences

The following table describes the revise preferences.

Name

Context

Description

Collector > Collection Preferences Not Used in Quick User Interface

• Site

• Organizations

The Include Related CAD / Dynamic, Include Related Documents and Include Related Parts values are set by default.

Refer to Configuring Collector Preferences used by Revise and Check Out Actions from CAD Tool topic for more information.

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