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The intent of this section is to list the most frequently used preferences, and not every preference that can be set using the Preference Management utility. For the complete list of preferences for Windchill Workgroup Manager for SOLIDWORKS that can be managed from the Preference Management utility, refer to the Preference Management utility in Windchill. Online help is available for each preference from the Set Preference window.
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Name in Preference Management Utility
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Description
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• Site
• Organizations
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• Projects
• Libraries
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Indicates a library in which library components are automatically added by SOLIDWORKS.
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Controls the display of the Conflicts (for Check out on the fly) window upon execution of Save action and resolves the checkout conflict with one of the following options:
• Check-out — Disable the Conflicts (for Check out on the fly) window and checkout the document.
• Revise and Check out — Disable the Conflicts (for Check out on the fly) window; revise and checkout the document.
• Continue — Disable the Conflicts (for Check out on the fly) window and continue to save the document without a checkout.
• No (default) — Enables the display of the Conflicts (for Check out on the fly) window.
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When set to Yes, an auto-number is applied to an instance name after a new instance is added in a generic CAD Document.
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• Site
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Allows you to specify a set of model instance names that must not be managed as family table CAD documents.
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• Projects
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To avoid potential uniqueness issues, this option allows you to include the generic name as part of the CAD document file name of the family table instance.
If you rename or save as the family table data-set after this option has been set, an error for unsupported character is displayed. To avoid the error, set this preference to ‘Yes’ for allowing the ‘@’ special character.
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Controls whether CAD model instances are managed in Windchill as family table CAD documents.
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Controls the default value for the Instance/Non-Instance attribute PTC_IS_INSTANCE.
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Controls the evaluated values of SOLIDWORKS configuration properties, at the cost of performance in the Save operation.
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When set to No, all members of a non-Creo family table are simultaneously checked out. When set to Yes individual checkout is allowed.
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Controls the creation of CAD documents for components that are marked as virtual in the CAD tool.
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Identifies the name of the property in the CAD tool that shows the CAD document's iteration.
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• Site
• Organizations
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Identifies the name of the property in the CAD tool that shows the life cycle state of the CAD document.
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• Organizations
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Identifies the name of the property in the CAD tool that shows the life cycle of the CAD document.
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Identifies the name of the property in the CAD tool that shows the CAD document's name.
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• Site
• Organizations
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Identifies the name of the property in the CAD tool that shows the CAD document's number.
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• Site
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Identifies the name of the property in the CAD tool that shows the CAD document's organization ID.
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Identifies the name of the property in the CAD tool that shows the CAD document's owner-associated part name.
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Identifies the name of the property in the CAD tool that shows the CAD document's owner-associated part number.
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Identifies the name of the property in the CAD tool that shows the CAD document's revision.
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• Site
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• Products
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Specifies which dependent CAD documents for the collected CAD documents are added to the collection by default upon opening.
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Allows the user to specify which drawings associated to the collected CAD documents will be added to the collection by default upon opening.
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Allows the file name and number to be the same.
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Specifies whether the model content is overwritten in the cache by default during Undo Checkout.
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Specifies whether the model content is overwritten in the cache by default during Update from Windchill Workgroup Manager.
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Specifies whether the model is uploaded after a native Save action in SOLIDWORKS (i.e., > ).
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• Organizations
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• User
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Allows configuring the content that is uploaded as additional content of a model.
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Native upload or auto check in of CAD documents uploads or checks in associated drawings.
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Specifies the additional attributes from the objects related to the CAD document that are shown as parameters or properties in the CAD tool.
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• 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. ![]() |
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Name in Preference Management Utility
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• Site
• Organizations
• User
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Controls the default behavior of whether content should be added to workspace as a link or the actual file.
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> > [preference name]
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• Site
• Organizations
• User
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Allows you to manage the collected documents and their related objects during an Add to Workspace operation.
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• Site
• Organizations
• User
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Sets the workspace lock to automatically lock all objects that are not being checked out during Add to Workspace and Check Out operations.
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Allows you to manage the collected documents and their related objects during a Check Out operation.
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• User
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Controls the default behavior of whether initially-selected items should also be opened in SOLIDWORKS when Add to Workspace or Check Out is performed from the user interface.
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• User
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Controls the default behavior of how content should be handled when there is already-modified content in the target Workspace cache.
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Controls the default configuration when a Add to Workspace action is performed.
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• Organizations
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Controls the default configuration when a Check Out action is performed.
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Controls the default set of objects to be checked out.
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• Organizations
• User
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Setting this preference to Yes allows you to set the Advanced tab as the default in the Add to Workspace and Check Out actions.
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> > [preference name]
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• Site
• Organizations
• User
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Allows you to manage the collected objects and its dependent objects during Export from Workspace operation.
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Name in Preference Management Utility
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> > (or Line Number Attribute)
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• Site
• Organizations
• User
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Defines the name of an attribute on the CAD Document Uses Link that should be copied to the Part Usage’s Find Number or Line Number in order to propagate the BOM item information in SOLIDWORKS components to Windchill.
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• Site
• Organizations
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The Include Related CAD / Dynamic, Include Related Documents and Include Related Parts values are set by default.
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