I asked a couple of months back what topics people would like to see posting on – I asked about Installation, Upgrade, Migration and Integration. The feedback I received was that there would be interest in posting/discussions on Migration. This document is an initial post with an overview of the options. If there is interest I will write something up about each topic.
There are many ways to migrate data into Windchill depending on the type of data to be migrated – Document, Parts, EPMDocuments, Workflows, Principles, Organizations … and there are two major types of migration – Windchill to Windchill and Non Windchill to Windchill. I will attempt to cover all of these over the next few postings
Windchill To Windchill:
Depending on the amount of data and the type of data there are several options for how this can be done.
- Windchill OOTB loaders – works for wtparts, wtdocuments and other data types. Does not work so well for EPMDocuments
- Windchill custom loaders – can be created for all object types, but very expensive
- Fishbowl Tools – I have used this method to load Proe/Creo, Solidworks and Autocad data from one environment to another
- Creo2 – I have used this method to load smaller data sets into existing target environment
- Catia – I have used this method to load smaller Catia data data sets into existing target environment
- Windchill Bulk Migrator – this used to be called the DMF and has gone from the DMF to WBM 2.0 to WBM 4.0. This is becoming the preferred method of loading as it can handle most object types OOTB and custom extractors and loaders can be created to support additional object types.
Non Windchill To Windchill:
Depending on the amount of data and the type of data there are several options for how this can be done.
- Windchill OOTB loaders – works for wtparts, wtdocuments and other data types. Does not work so well for EPMDocument
- Windchill custom loaders – can be created for all object types, but very expensive
- Fishbowl Tools – I have used this method to load Proe/Creo, Solidworks and Autocad data from one environment to another
- Creo2 – I have used this method to load smaller data sets into existing target environment
- Catia – I have used this method to load smaller Catia data data sets into existing target environment
- Windchill Bulk Migrator – this used to be called the DMF and has gone from the DMF to WBM 2.0 to WBM 4.0. This is becoming the preferred method of loading as it can handle most object types OOTB and custom extractors and loaders can be created to support additional object types.