Showing posts with label Teamcenter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teamcenter. Show all posts

June 15, 2012

Improving Teamcenter Rich Client 64-bit Performance

Recently GTAC released SFB-Teamcenter-6737 describing a problem where Teamcenter 64-bit rich client can run out of memory impacting performance and provided a workaround to resolve this issue.

March 12, 2012

Linking Teamcenter Managed Excel Files With Solid Edge Embedded Client Files

If an Excel file already exists and is managed in Teamcenter under an Item ID, how to then create a link from the existing managed Excel file to a managed Solid Edge Embedded Client [SEEC] file?

January 24, 2012

Tuning Microsoft SQL Server for Teamcenter


GTAC Software Field Bulletin SFB-Teamcenter-6464 has some great tweaks for tuning Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 with Teamcenter.

January 06, 2012

How to Apply Revision Display Filters in Teamcenter


Saw the following question come across the LinkedIn forums regarding how to filter for only the latest Item Revision in Teamcenter:

 
So I thought I would post detailed instructions on how to accomplish this.

December 15, 2011

Optimizing Insight and Teamcenter SQL Server Performance in a Virtual Environment



SQL Server Pro has a great post by Denny Cherry with seven tips for optimizing SQL Server on the vSphere and Hyper-V virtual platforms.  Given that many Insight and Teamcenter customers are running SQL Server databases for their PLM backbone this article is a must read:


November 03, 2011

Mapping Teamcenter Person Profile Information from Owning User on Item Revision to Solid Edge Draft

For whatever reason, you may wish to show on the Solid Edge draft file the user profile information for the owning user of the Item Revision that contains the SE Draft dataset.  Here is the mapping on how to accomplish this.

October 28, 2011

Improving Your Insight SharePoint and Teamcenter SQL Server Performance By 460% with Index Defragmentation


Courtesy of the SQL Fool an awesome script to defragment the SQL Server indexes.   This is a maintenance script and can be useful for improving your overall SQL Server performance issues.

SQL utility and maintenance scripts can be applicable for both Insight and TCX installations running SQL Server.

So does index defragmentation matter?  From Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Index Defragmentation Best Practices: 
"The workload performance increase realized in the small-scale environment ranged from 60 percent at the low level of fragmentation to more than 460 percent at the highest level of fragmentation. The workload performance increased realized for the large-scale environment ranged from 13 percent at the low fragmentation level to 40 percent at the medium fragmentation level."
So how to use this defragmentation script?

October 10, 2011

Purging Solid Edge Embedded Client Unreferenced JT Override Datasets from Teamcenter


In Solid Edge Embedded Client (SEEC) when creating assembly features a JT dataset is created and uploaded into Teamcenter.  This assembly feature JT dataset is commonly referred to as a "JT override".  SEEC JT override dataset names take the form of "Ovr_<id #>" where <id #> is some system generated id number.


September 09, 2011

Optimally Configuring Anti-Virus For Use With Teamcenter


I have actually covered this in my earlier post “Improve Solid Edge Performance by 95% On Windows 7 By Configuring Anti-Virus”.  However it occurred to me that my Teamcenter oriented readers are not going to read an entry on configuring anti-virus for use with Solid Edge and so will miss this information.  So I’m taking the opportunity of a cheap quick and easy post to repackage the same information for a different market ;-)

August 31, 2011

Configure Solid Edge Embedded Client to Map Teamcenter LOV and Associated LOV Description


In Teamcenter it is possible to create an interdependent LOV such that the LOV description is displayed alongside the LOV value:
 

Where such functionality would be useful is when you have a short LOV value but need to use a longer LOV description to help the end user decide if the LOV value is the correct value to be selected i.e. CAGE Codes being a perfect example of this.

August 30, 2011

Teamcenter Classes, Business Objects, Attributes and Properties Explained



For those of you new to Teamcenter concepts check out Scott Pigman’s excellent post explaining Teamcenter Classes, Business Objects, Attributes and Properties:


If you do anything Teamcenter related check out Scott’s blog, The PLM Dojo, for all kinds of good info on Teamcenter.



July 13, 2011

Improve Solid Edge Performance by 95% On Windows 7 By Configuring Anti-Virus


I have seen instances with customers where the anti-virus software on Windows 7 is negatively impacting Solid Edge performance.  By making a few simple anti-virus configuration changes you can greatly improve your Solid Edge open and save performance.

For one customer, saving unmanaged Solid Edge files to his local hard drive was taking 90 seconds to complete.  After making these anti-virus configuration changes the Solid Edge file saves took 5 seconds.  For another customer Insight uploads were taking 600 seconds to complete.  After the anti-virus changes, the uploads took 30 seconds.  Two real world instances where configuring anti-virus improved Solid Edge performance by a whopping 95%.

Of course it should go without saying that the changes to your anti-virus configuration outlined below need to be reviewed by your company’s IT security experts.

For both unmanaged and managed Solid Edge exclude the following folders and all files underneath:
%ProgramFiles%\Solid Edge <version #>
%APPDATA%\Unigraphics Solutions
%TEMP%
If also running Insight or Solid Edge Embedded Client  (SEEC):
All http traffic to and from the server(s) and the client
If also running SEEC and Teamcenter exclude the additional folders and all files underneath:
%USERPROFILE%\Teamcenter
%USERPROFILE%\FCCCache
%TCROOT%
%TCDATA%
The above list assumes that the software and its various options are installed to the default locations.  If you have changed any of the default locations i.e. Insight cache location etc then you will need to modify your anti-virus exclusions appropriately.

And don’t forget to make these changes where appropriate to both your clients and servers.

To be clear it is not all anti-virus software on Windows 7 that I have seen have such a dramatic impact on Solid Edge performance.  There are several anti-virus software packages that seem to more negatively impact Solid Edge performance than others but I’m not going to call those vendors out by name in this post.  Regardless, whatever anti-virus software you run, making these configurations changes should still improve your Solid Edge open and save performance to some degree.

And for those of you are experiencing overall poor Windows 7 performance as a whole, not just with Solid Edge, perhaps you should consider temporarily disabling anti-virus and testing your Windows 7 performance without anti-virus in the mix.  You might find that your anti-virus is negatively impacting your overall performance as a whole and not just with Solid Edge.

Check out my previous post on tweaking Windows 7 for improved Solid Edge and Windows 7 performance.