Windchill PDM Essentials Overview
Windchill PDM Essentials is a preconfigured, packaged solution designed for rapid, small deployments by customers with basic MCAD data management needs. The package contains everything needed for basic CAD data management except the operating system (OS).
Summary
• Microsoft SQL Server 2014 is bundled with Windchill PDM Essentials and is automatically installed and configured. This bundled SQL server version is licensed with, and can be used only with Windchill PDM Essentials.
• The following Windchill capabilities are included and preconfigured in Windchill PDM Essentials:
◦ Support for managing Creo Parametric CAD documents
◦ Support for managing documents (PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, TXT)
◦ Server-side representation publishing and client-side viewing
▪ Creo View Lite is included for client 3-D viewing and markup.
▪ Creo Parametric CAD worker, publishing adapter, and the associated license are included and automatically configured for publishing
◦ Windchill Directory Server (for managing users)
◦ The following Windchill Workgroup Manager products are bundled and installed on the server and available for client deployment.
▪ Windchill Workgroup Manager for Creo Illustrate
▪ Windchill Workgroup Manager for Creo Schematics
▪ Windchill Workgroup Manager for Creo Elements/Direct Drafting
▪ Windchill Workgroup Manager for Creo Elements/Direct Modeling
▪ Windchill Workgroup Manager for AutoCAD
▪ Windchill Workgroup Manager for Autodesk Inventor
▪ Windchill Workgroup Manager for SOLIDWORKS
▪ Windchill Workgroup Manager for PTC Mathcad
▪ Windchill Workgroup Manager for Windchill Arbortext IsoDraw
• The following Windchill capabilities are excluded:
◦ No support for parts (WTParts), part configurations, or advanced configuration options (only CAD documents and documents, such as Microsoft Word or text documents, are supported).
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WTParts are Windchill parts. CAD data for Creo Parametric parts and SOLIDWORKS parts is managed in Windchill as CAD documents.
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◦ No support for content replication
◦ No support for change objects
◦ No support for indexed content search (Windchill Solr is not installed)
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Attribute search is supported.
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