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Can anyone explain how to use Windchill to manage (more importantly, to store) data such as drawing symbols and material files? My users are asking me to place these files in Windchill, so they have easy access to retreieve them while using Pro/E. In theory, it seems very logical, since it can manage the revision history of these files (or lock them from being inadvertently modified), plus... it acts as a common server, especially nice, since we don't have one for our group.As it is now, every user has to have a copy of these files local on their machine.
I've had no luck in trying to find info on how to use Windchill to accomplish this. I thought it would be simple. Can anyone help?
First of all, hats off to Steven G. Smith for sharing some of the secrets of Windchill with me regarding this topic. Apparently, Steven has a Windchill 9.1 Admin book out on the market. I'll have to buy a copy and suggest you all do the same.
Here is what I did to add my symbols to Windchill:
Can anyone explain how to use Windchill to manage (more importantly, to store) data such as drawing symbols and material files? My users are asking me to place these files in Windchill, so they have easy access to retreieve them while using Pro/E. In theory, it seems very logical, since it can manage the revision history of these files (or lock them from being inadvertently modified), plus... it acts as a common server, especially nice, since we don't have one for our group.As it is now, every user has to have a copy of these files local on their machine.
I've had no luck in trying to find info on how to use Windchill to accomplish this. I thought it would be simple. Can anyone help?
Hi Everyone, I know this is a very old post.
I just want to know if anyone experienced any problems with speed on large assemblies after, setting your materials libraries up in Windchill, as explained above.
We've been warned against doing this because of potential speed problems, but we would really like to have revision control on our Material libraries.
(After all, the functionality is available.)
However I have to be cautious, as this is a rather big change to make for the large amount of users that I support.
Has anyone experienced any problems after setting up the material libraries in Windchill at all?