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Table of contents
Information Pages
We’ve changed the look of your object’s information pages, organizing the page with tabs, including your own tabs, to show
exactly the data you want to see......................................................................................................................................................... 6
Windchill Documents
Create and manage your files through Microsoft® Office ® applications and Windows Explorer ®, as well as directly through your
Web browser.................................................................................................................................................................................. 7-8
Windchill Parts
Windchill 10.0 introduces a new Web interface for locating and editing part structures and associated information. The restructured
part information page now contains a structure tab that allows you to create parts, edit part structures, and review and add
related information...................................................................................................................................................................... 9-10
Glossary..................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
Products
Projects
Changes
Libraries
Organizations
Sites
Click Save This Search to add the search to your Saved Search
list and to the keyword Search dropdown, where it remains until
replaced by more recent searches.
Advanced Search
Enter a Keyword to find
matching criteria anywhere
(for example, in a document’s
content or attributes).
To perform an action on
an object in a table, simply
right-click over that row.
To open a link in a new Perform specific actions on objects Click a column Display all objects
window or tab, right-click in your tables by clicking these header to sort loaded in the table
and hold the CTRL button. icons, or by choosing from the the table by that match your
Actions menu, or by right-clicking that column. search.
on any row.
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Information Pages The document’s identifying information
such as its number, name and version.
Right-click to rename
or remove a tab you
have created.
Document
Another Part
Reference Document
(End Item in
this example) Requirement
Uses
Specification
Uses
CAD Document
Visual representation of
the part.
The actions toolbar contains Find parts in the product View and edit the part Use Configuration
frequently used viewing, structure. The structure is structure, including related Specification, Attributes and
editing, and analysis functions. expanded to reveal matching CAD data and documents, Spatial Criteria to display
parts within subassemblies and and usage information. the desired product structure
allows easy navigation from configuration.
one match to the next.
Acceptance of non-conformance
Waiver Optional
after part has been built
Change Notice
New to Windchill? Here are some important terms Information Pages: An information page is used to access
and concepts you should know: information about, and perform actions on, a particular object.
Actions: Performing a task against an object or table in Windchill Objects: An object is a generic name for business data that is
is called an action. Actions are available from Icons on a table’s added to, and managed in, the Windchill system. For example,
toolbar, the Actions menu on information pages and toolbars, and a part, a CAD document, and a Windchill document are all
right-click Actions menu on rows in tables. Windchill objects.
CAD documents: CAD files (for example, models or drawings) Occurences: An occurrence in Windchill is a database object
are managed in Windchill as CAD documents. CAD documents that stores information about one named usage of a part within
and their structures can be associated to Windchill parts. a part structure.
A CAD document is the CAD designer’s view of the design, and
Roles: A role determines the access privileges that users have
a Windchill part is the rest of the enterprise’s view of the same
and what they are allowed to do within contexts. Manager,
design. For example, AML/AVL information is only associated
reviewer, observer, or approver are all examples of roles.
with the corresponding Windchill part. This associative
relationship enables CAD structures to automatically build Tables: Information about multiple objects is commonly
part structures. New with Windchill 10.0 is top-down design presented in tables. Because some tables can contain large
(TDD), allowing part structures to build CAD structures. quantities of data, you can define a view to display just the
objects and columns that you want to see.
Change Management: Windchill functionality that manages
issues and improvements to products and processes via a robust, Versions, Revisions, and Iterations:
closed-loop system. Changes can be identified, tracked and When you save an object in Windchill for Revision Iteration
viewed across the enterprise. The entire enterprise can then assess the first time, you create the first version
how these changes in product data will affect different teams. of it. In Windchill, most objects are assigned A.1
a revision and iteration. Together, the
Commonspace: A collective term for the data that is not in a user’s Version
revision and iteration define the object’s
workspace. The Folder Browser is Windchill’s equivalent of the
version. For example, if A.1 is the version,
commonspace in Pro/INTRALINK ®.
A is the revision and 1 is the iteration.
Contexts: Contexts can be thought of as separate data vaults.
Workspace: A workspace is a private area where you can manage
There are three main types of contexts in Windchill:
your CAD work and perform CAD data management operations.
•Products: A product is typically thought of as the physical item
manufactured and sold to customers. Windchill expands the
concept of a product to include the environment in which users
collaborate to develop parts.
The timing of any product release, including any features or functionality, is subject
to change at PTC’s discretion.