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NX into Windchill

NX into Windchill

NX into Windchill

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Does anyone use NX with Windchill?

Basically I need a route for NX users to enter a descriptive Name ("Bolt, Hex, ..."), because I think OOTB Windchill workgroup manager (WGM) forces auto-numbered number into Number, Name & File Name. Where they can enter a Name in the NX session & it becomes Name in the Name windchill attribute.

It would be nice if it used the Name entered in the New Name text enter field, when opening a new NX cad file. But that seems impossible.

I can currently get this to happen, if I set an NX property PTC_COMMON_NAME equal to what the user wants the Windchill Name to be. But I don't think that attribute/property is supposed to be used in NX. When I open a NX file, several windchill attributes/parameters are already read/written. PTC_WM_NAME, PTC_WM_NUMBER, PTC_WM_REVISION, etc.

But it would be nice if I could get windchill or the workgroup manager to also open a property/parameter/attribute for PTC_COMMON_NAME. That would be a good alternate route to have the user create the property/parameter/attribute.

Now they have to accept the duplicate number into number, name & file name & change the Name up in windchill manually.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks
Larry Jett
cadjett@aol.com, datajett@aol.com

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