System Compatibility and Requirements

The system requirements to integrate Windchill with external systems such as Windchill RV&S, Windchill Modeler, or IBM Rational Doors NG are:

• ThingWorx platform with Flow, OSLC connector, and Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) setting

For compatible release versions of these applications, see the Windchill Software Matrix on Reference Documents.

You need administrator permissions to gain access to the above systems to perform the integration.

Windchill properties are available in the <windchill>\site.xconf file. Specify the required values for these properties. Use the xconfmanager utility to propagate the changes in the site.xconf file.

Property Name	Default Value	Description	Example
com.ptc.twx.host	No Default	ThingWorx Flow server is the host.	thingworx.ptc.com
com.ptc.twx.port	No Default	TCP/IP port to which ThingWorx connects for direct server-to-server HTTP requests from Windchill.	443
com.ptc.twx.protocol	No Default	TCP protocol which Windchill should use to connect toThingWorx host when ThingWorx is installed in standalone mode. Default protocol Windchill uses is http.	https

Based on the sample values specified for the above mentioned properties, the URL created would be in the format https://thingworx.ptc.com:443/thingworx/composer. Similarly, when you specify values for these properties, per your system setup, make sure the output URL is valid when accessed from your browser.

In the Type and Attribute Management utility of Windchill, the modeled types and soft types available out-of-the-box are:

Modeled Types	Soft Types	Instantiable	Subtypeable
Requirement External Resource	Requirement Collection Resource Requirement Resource	No	No
Architecture External Resource	Activity Block Class Model Package Use Case	No	Yes
Requirement Object to Object Trace Link	Satisfy	Yes	Yes
Requirement Version to Version Trace Link	Allocate	Yes	Yes
Architecture Object to Object Trace Link	Implement	No	Yes
Architecture Version to Version Trace Link		No	Yes

• In the Type and Attribute Management utility, you can create soft types for Requirement Collection Resource, Activity, Block, Class, Model, Package, and Use Case.

• The relationship constraint for the soft types Satisfy, Allocate, and Implement for parts, options and choices are available out-of-the-box. However, to add trace links to their child types, create a relationship constraint on their child types.