topic Re: “Update Worker" for data managed in Windchill (e.g. Solidworks 2014 -> 2015)? in Windchill

“Update Worker" for data managed in Windchill (e.g. Solidworks 2014 -> 2015)?

sprosser — Wed, 02 May 2018 11:46:13 GMT

As Solidworks needs to convert files to the new file format after a major version upgrade to ensure performance and stability we thought about the need to have an “Update Worker” to convert at least the catalog parts to a new Solidworks version.We thought about a queued processing

Re: “Update Worker" for data managed in Windchill (e.g. Solidworks 2014 -> 2015)?

BineshKumar1 — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 23:40:53 GMT

Hello Stephan,

I can't think of any out of the box way to do it. The OOTB SW CAD worker just opens the file, translate it to different format and upload the derived objects to Windchill. It will not modify or save the original SW file. So this is not an option.

A possible solution is to build a custom application using WGM Tool Kit. You can provide the list of files to be checked out and checked in as an input to the application. https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS112406

Regards

Binesh Kumar

Re: “Update Worker" for data managed in Windchill (e.g. Solidworks 2014 -> 2015)?

LoriSood — Sat, 14 May 2016 13:18:05 GMT

HI Stephen,

As Binesh Kumar‌ says, there is no way to do this out of the box and would require some sort of custom application or batch utility to go in, retrieve/save and check in all the files back to Windchill.

PTC Global Services or other consulting firms may have something ready-made that may help in this requirement. It could be worth checking with them.

Re: “Update Worker" for data managed in Windchill (e.g. Solidworks 2014 -> 2015)?

rnoah — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 20:00:19 GMT

Stephen,

We have built such an app for one of our customers.

it wasn't such a fun ...

however, today the migration are easier for them.

i think this should be pushed to PTC to be OOTB functionality.

Besides, another option to support this will be support of solidworks "task scheduler".

Re: “Update Worker" for data managed in Windchill (e.g. Solidworks 2014 -> 2015)?

sprosser — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 09:10:06 GMT

Hi Rami,

Can you elaborate a little bit on what you did for your customer?

From my perspective there are two challenges...

1. Identify and queue the objects that need to be updated.

You need to make sure not to process objects multiple times. Also packing the objects in junks and submit these junks over the weekend to a set of workers sounds reasonable.

2. Having a Worker that automatically add to Workspace, open, (probably regenerate) and save objects to Workspace. After that a check-in to Windchill with admin permissions would be fine for us if it includes a check-in Comment stating that the check-in was done by a robot. Others might want to initiate a mass change...or individual change requests....

Supporting the Task Scheduler would partially solve challenge 2, but not the whole thing. The Windchill Visualization Service might be the right tool to take care of challenge 1 ....so we just need some minor peace’s that are missing.

Thanks, Stephan