PTC Windchill Toolbar
The PTC Windchill toolbar in CATIA V5 provides easy access to Windchill PDM actions. When a PDM action does not apply to the selected object, the action is unavailable.
 | PTC_TOOLBAR_ENABLED is the environment variable that creates the PTC Windchill toolbar when CATIA V5 is registered. By default it is set to true. |
The toolbar contains the following icons.
Icon | CATIA – Windchill Action |
|---|---|
 | Opens Windchill Workgroup Manager for CATIA V5. |
 | Displays Windchill information about the root node of the CATIA model currently in session. |
 | Opens a document from the workspace or the commonspace |
 | Inserts a component into CATIA V5 from Windchill |
 | Replaces a component in CATIA V5 from Windchill |
 | Saves and uploads the document to a workspace |
 | Generates and checks in a CATIA V5 All-In-One CATPart |
 | Checks in the document interactively (custom checkin) |
 | Checks in the active document using the default values for the action (automatic checkin) |
 | Checks out the active document |
 | Revises and checks out the active document |
 | Undoes a checkout for the active model |
 | Updates the active document with information from Windchill |
 | Updates all currently active documents with information from Windchill |
 | Opens the Server Management utility |
 | Opens the Event Management utility to view PDM transaction status for the primary server |
 | Opens the Workgroup Manager help |
 | Switch to include components (Design In Context only) |
 | Switch to exclude components (Design In Context only) |
 | Switch the currently selected assemblies to Structure Mode (Heterogeneous Design In Context and Super CGRs only) |
| | Most PDM actions are also available by right-clicking. However, right-click actions are only applicable to CATProducts, CATParts, and CATDrawings. |
Disabling the CATIA V5 Toolbar
To disable the toolbar:
1. Unregister CATIA V5 as an application and close both CATIA V5 and Windchill Workgroup Manager for CATIA V5.
2. Set the PTC_TOOLBAR_ENABLED environment variable to f:
3. Launch the Windchill Workgroup Manager and register CATIA V5 as an authoring application.
4. Launch the CATIA V5 application.