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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.
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.