What's new in Easy Plan 2.8

Installation

  • All workspaces in Easy Plan 2.8 are supported on Teamcenter 11.4 and higher, and Active Workspace 4.1, including patches.

  • The Teamcenter Manufacturing Access workspace is supported on NX 12.0.2 or later.

  • The Teamcenter Manufacturing Access workspace is supported on Process Simulate 14.1.x or later.

  • You can install Easy Plan using the Deployment Center or the Teamcenter Environment Manager (TEM).

Easy Plan configuration

  • Planners can upload and view layout drawings for a process area or process line.

    See Relation types and file types for details about preferences you must set before this feature can be used.

  • Easy Plan added the jpeg:Image value to the EP_FileTypesForLayoutDataset, which is an existing Teamcenter preference.

    See Managing and removing data objects in the Using Teamcenter Interfaces and Managing Basic Objects help collection for details.

Teamcenter Manufacturing Access configuration

End users can filter Manufacturing features searches into category by discrete or continuous weld, and further filter searches into subcategories. End users can also configure the MFG Search table, to control how search results display.

See Manufacturing features search for details about the preferences you must set before these features can be used.

Work Instructions Authoring configuration

  • Planners can use TCM Visualization to view 3D renderings of work instructions.

    See Install or update TCM Visualization for Easy Plan for details about the preference you must set before this feature can be used.

  • Planners can format work instructions, and save the instructions into an HTML file.

    See Relation types for details about the preference you must set before this feature can be used.

  • Planners can filter images in the film strip panel.

    See Relation types for details about the preference you must set before this feature can be used.

Known problems and workarounds

There is a bug in Teamcenter 11.4 that causes a problem working with activities in Production Process Planning. As a workaround, set the Attachment_window_clean_up_disable preference to false. This is fixed in Teamcenter 11.5.