Melodie’s Missives

Although a bit late, Mathcad 14.0 M020 is available for download.  Please see the PTC Link for more information: http://www.ptc.com/appserver/wcms/standards/freefull.jsp?im_dbkey=104634&icg_dbkey=222
The software is downloadable in its usual location.  It can be found on the Order and Download Software Updates page from www.ptc.com/support.

There is an important bulletin out on PTC’s website regarding customers who are upgrading to Windchill 9.0 M080.  Issues that are encountered when upgrading are:

UpgradeManager hangs at Execute Server Migrators (UpdateVersionIDMigrator).
One of the Execute Server Migrators (Requiring New Data) failed with the error “wt.lifecycle.LifeCycleException: This object is undergoing a review process and possible promotion to [...]

While accessing certain pages in Windchill, are you receiving a security warning that says, “The application’s digital signature has an error.  Do you want to run the application?”  Well, PTC announced that the digital certificate that is used to sign certain applets in Windchill expired on September 28, 2009.  This means that when a user [...]

Although Windchill 9.0 M030 installs with Windchill Directory Server, you can still use Aphelion. Aphelion is officially sunset with Windchill 9.1 M040. Please check the Windchill Software Matrices document from the Reference Documents page on PTC’s website at www.ptc.com/support.

It has come to PTC’s attention that there are several issues with the integration between Windchill 9.1 and CATIA V5.  Reference the following TANs for additional details:
TAN 145283
TAN 145062
TAN 146171
TAN 146056
TAN 146057
These TANs can be searched for through PTC’s Kowledge Base from www.ptc.com/Support or check out the Customer Support Bulletin for this particular issue at http://www.ptc.com/appserver/wcms/standards/freefull.jsp?im_dbkey=99135&icg_dbkey=222.
Windchill 9.1 [...]

Be aware that Windchill IS NOT compatible with Windows 2008 until Windchill 9.0 M080 or Windchill 9.1 M030.  This is because the LDAP that all previous versions of Windchill uses, Aphelion, cannot be installed on Windows 2008.  Please check out the Windchill Software Matrices for the respective builds and ensure compatibility of ALL software prior to [...]

ProEngineer Wildfire 5.0 F000 has been delayed from July 2009 to September 16, 2009 per PTC’s Software Product Delivery page. 
Additional information regarding this can be found at Mike Campbell’s blog.

Some ProEngineer users may have experienced some crashing this morning right after starting up ProEngineer.  It was caused from PTC’s website being down and when ProEngineer loaded, it was trying to look for that website in the imbedded web browser.  This was noticed by the users in the PTCUser community.  Although the PTC website is [...]

Per PTC’s Windchill 9.1 Software Matrix reference document, Internet Explorer 8.0 is now supported with Windchill 9.1 M020.

ProEngineer Wildfire 4.0 M092 is now available for download.  This should be a more stable build and should address the workspace issues that were found in M090 and M091.