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TCAA 8.0 Installation Guide
TCAA 8.0 Installation Guide
Document Revision: A
Date: 2011
Teamcenter Integration for AutoCAD (TCAA)
PLM SOFTWARE Installation and Administration Guide
This software and related documentation are proprietary to Siemens Product Lifecycle Management
Software Inc.
2009 Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. All Rights Reserved. All trademarks belong to
their respective holders.
Manual Publication
Teamcenter Version Autodesk AutoCAD Version TCAA Version
Revision Date
AutoCAD 2010
Teamcenter 2007 1.7
AutoCAD 2011
Teamcenter 8.1.0.3
AutoCAD 2012
A Teamcenter 8.3 Release 8.0 March 2011
AutoCAD Mechanical 2010
Teamcenter Express 4
AutoCAD Mechanical 2011
Teamcenter Express 5.3
AutoCAD Mechanical 2012
Table of Contents
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................ 6
Audience ..................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Organization ............................................................................................................................................................... 6
Introduction
This guide describes the prerequisites, installation, administration and troubleshooting for the Teamcenter
Integration for Autodesk AutoCAD (TCAA).
Audience
The reader of this document should be an experienced Teamcenter system administrator who is familiar with
Autodesk AutoCAD and data management concepts.
Organization
Chapter 1 Requirements and Prerequisites
Describes the system requirements, software prerequisites and the installation procedures for the TCAA
server and client and also provides a brief overview of the TCAA architecture.
Chapter 2 Installation
Describes administrative tasks related to TCAA. It is divided into two subsections that deal with system
administration for the client and server, including the TCAA data model and various supporting utilities.
Chapter 3 Administration
Describes administrative tasks related to TCAA and system administration for the client and server, including
the TCAA data model and various supporting utilities.
Chapter 4 Glossary
Describes TCAA and Teamcenter terms
Chapter 5 Troubleshooting
Describes causes and solutions to possible errors
About TCAA
TCAA is an AutoCAD CAD connector for Teamcenter. TCAA is composed of two primary components: TCAA
server and TCAA client.
The server layer for TCAA is tightly integrated into Teamcenter using the Teamcenter SOA framework.
The client layer is a light weight CAD-centric integration into the Autodesk AutoCAD GUI.
The server and client operate as a designer-centric interface between Autodesk AutoCAD and Teamcenter.
TCAA manages design data by accessing the Teamcenter database directly from AutoCAD. It also ensures
that the AutoCAD designs are secure, reusable and accessible across the enterprise.
TCAA Server
This section describes the system requirements and software prerequisites for installing the TCAA server.
System Requirements
The TCAA server supports the minimum system recommendations for operating a Windows-based
Teamcenter server (Windows XP, Windows 2003). It depends on the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
from Siemens PLM Software for communication between Teamcenter and AutoCAD.
Software Prerequisites
TCAA supports the following versions of Teamcenter software products.
Teamcenter 2007 MP 1.7 or higher
Teamcenter 8.1.0.3
Teamcenter 8.3
where:
- Teamcenter server name is the machine on which the Web Application Server (Weblogic,
Websphere, JBoss) is installed and the Teamcenter "ear" (Enterprise Archive) is deployed
- port number is the TCP port for connecting to the web-tier.
If the four-tier mode is configured correctly, the Teamcenter Global Configuration webpage will be displayed.
If the Global Configuration web page is not displayed, see the Teamcenter Installation on Windows Servers
Guide to configure the Teamcenter four-tier architecture.
Teamcenter Express
When installing TCAA client with Teamcenter Express there are no additional configurations needed
because Teamcenter Express automatically installs the four-tier architecture using the IIS Web Application
Server.
Verify that the four-tier is configured successful by going to the URL:
If the four-tier mode is configured correctly, the Teamcenter Global Configuration webpage will be displayed.
If the Global Configuration web page is not displayed, see the Teamcenter Installation on Windows Servers
Guide to configure the Teamcenter four-tier architecture.
TCAA Client
This section describes the system requirements and software prerequisites for the TCAA client.
System Requirements
The TCAA sever and the Teamcenter server should be installed and configured before installing TCAA client.
TCAA is based on the SOA Architecture and supports all system requirements and multi-tier installations
recommended by Siemens PLM Software for the SOA Architecture.
Micorsoft .NET 3.5 SP1 is required in order to have all TCAA features working properly.
The following sections describe requirements for installing TCAA client for the supported versions of
Teamcenter.
TCAA client supports the following versions of AutoCAD and AutoCAD Mechanical:
Notes:
- Not all AutoCAD features are supported by TCAA. Refer to TCAA User Manual for more information.
- After having installed a new version of AutoCAD, AutoCAD application has to be launched at least once
before installing TCAA client.
- There is a known issue with 64 bit OS installations: every time a brand new AutoCAD session is started, the
first login into Teamcenter will take about 2-4 minutes to complete.
Chapter 2 Installation
The following sections describe the TCAA server installation process for the supported versions of
Teamcenter. The TCAA server installation instructions are followed by the TCAA client installation
instructions and post install tasks.
2. Double-click the tcaa8_server_msi.exe file and click Next at the TCAA Server welcome screen.
3. The second page allows selecting TCAA Server installation folder. In order to change the default value,
edit the folder field or use the Browse button. Once done click Next.
4. In the third page the Teamcenter TC_DATA folder has to be specified. Once done, click Next.
6. Click Finish in the last window where there are some instructions for next step.
7. Launch Teamcenter Environment Manager (TEM) and perform the following steps:
e) Click the Browse button and navigate to TCAA Server installation folder defined in step 3 (by default
it is C:\Program Files\Siemens\Tcaa_Server).
g) The AutoCAD Foundation feature should now be listed under Miscellaneous category. Check
AutoCAD Foundation feature and click Next.
k) When the Successful window appears, Close the Install Features Panel.
8. Perform Server post installation tasks referring to the section TCAA Post Installation Tasks
1. Install the TCAA Server launching tcaa8_server_msi.exe and follow the setup wizard as explained for a
new installation.
2. Once the setup wizard is over, launch the Environment Manager for Teamcenter (TEM).
8. Click the Browse button and navigate to TCAA Server installation folder (by default it is like C:\Program
Files\Siemens\Tcaa_Server).
9. Select
- autocad_template.zip under TCAA_2007_Installation\BMIDE_Package for Teamcenter 2007 installation.
- feature_autocad.xml under TCAA_8_Installation\BMIDE_Package for Teamcenter 8 installation.
10. Select the AutoCAD Foundation feature in Teamcenter 2007 or verify that AutoCAD Foundation feature
is marked to be updated in Teamcenter 8 and click Next.
TCAA Setup
Before performing TCAA Client Installation, it is imperative the server side of TCAA be installed and running
properly. It is necessary to verify the AutoCAD Foundation is installed using the Teamcenter Environment
Manager (TEM) before proceeding with the steps outlined below.
Note: the AutoCAD application needs to be started at least once before installing TCAA Client.
The required steps to install the TCAA client are outlined below:
3. Double-click Tcaa80_client_msi.exe.
8. Review the current selections and click Install to start the installation.
Note: a warning message may be displayed at the end of the selection list. Its content depends on
Teamcenter client installation and can report one or both the following notifications:
- 2-tier connections will not be supported by TCAA if Teamcenter client installation does not appear
to be configured for 2-tier connections (iiopservers\start_imr.bat not found under the specified
Teamcenter root folder).
- Open-In-AutoCAD feature will not be installed in Teamcenter RAC if folder portal\plugins (or
rac\plugins for Over the Web installations) is not found under the specified Teamcenter root folder.
See Configure Open-In-AutoCAD to manually install the feature.
13. If the required connection server is not available in the list inside the login page, exit AutoCAD and go
through the procedure described in the section Configuring the connection to Teamcenter.
14. Perform post installation tasks referring to the section TCAA Post Installation Tasks.
The silent setup will log information in Tcaa_client_msi_log.txt under the temporary folder exactly the same
way as if a manual install was performed.
In order to log msiexec engine specific information add the option /l <log file name>.
Example:
Note: on 64 bits OS, APPDIR cannot be located under %ProgramFiles%. It has to be located either under
%ProgramFiles(x86)% or under a different folder.
In order to add or configure the connection parameters used by TCAA the user has to go through the
following steps:
1. Launch AutoCAD at least once and close it. In this way, the default TCAAAPP.PAR will be
generated. Failure to perform this step will halt the post install process as the TCAAPP.PAR file will
not exist
2. Launch the batch EditTcaaServerconfig.bat located under Windows Start Menu All Programs
Tcaa8_client as shown in the following figure:
3. The batch script will open TCAAAPP.PAR for editing. The two entries TC_SERVER_TITLE and
TC_SERVER_NAME have to be added.
TC_SERVER_TITLE is an arbitrary name assigned by the user to identify the connection. This value
will be showed in the list of available servers in the login page.
TC_SERVER_NAME contains actual connection information and depends on the type of connection:
Configure Open-In-AutoCAD
This post installation step is required to enable the Open in AutoCAD functionality from Teamcenter Rich
Application Client.
In order to install this feature it is necessary to take the following actions:
1) Under TCAA installation folder, locate the proper jar file depending on the currently installed
Teamcenter version:
<InstallationPath>\Rac\2007\TCAAcustom_8.0.0.jar for Teamcenter 2007
2) <InstallationPath>\Rac\8\MechworksTcaaplugin_8.0.0.jar for Teamcenter 8.3
3) Copy the jar file to Teamcenter installation folder <TC_ROOT>\portal\plugins for TEM installation or
<TC_ROOT>\rac\plugins for Over The Web installation.
4) Launch the script <TC_ROOT>\portal\registry\genregxml.bat (or <TC_ROOT>\rac\registry\genregxml.bat for
the Over The Web installation).
Once this post installation step is completed, all known AutoCAD datasets will be represented with the right
icon in Teamcenter and can be opened directly from RAC with double-click.
Restart Services
After completion of the installation of the TCAA client, TCAA server and required Post Install tasks, it is
necessary to reboot both Client and Server to reset all the services installed.
Chapter 3 Administration
This chapter covers various topics related to administration and deployment of TCAA.
System Architecture
The architecture for TCAA is anchored in the latest SOA technology developed by Siemens PLM Software
for interfacing CAD systems with Teamcenter.
Client Layer:
The client layer is a light weight CAD-centric integration into the Autodesk AutoCAD GUI.
Requirements for the TCAA client are:
Installation of Autodesk AutoCAD;
Installation of Teamcenter client RAC;
Properly configured Teamcenter Server.
Client Administration
TCAAAPP.PAR
The TCAAAPP.PAR file contains the information related to last used Teamcenter servers, last login info and
user preferences. Following is a sample of the file:
;
;
; TCAxAPP.PAR - TCAx (C)Siemens global parameters file
;
;
;===================================================================
; TCAx Teamcenter servers list
;===================================================================
TC_SERVER_NAME http://VMTC20071/tc/
TC_SERVER_NAME http://VMTC8301:8080/tc/
TC_SERVER_TITLE VMTC20071
TC_SERVER_TITLE VMTC8301
;===================================================================
; TCAx client preferences
;===================================================================
TC_ASSIGNED_WORKING_FOLDER
TC_AUXILIARY_OUTPUT_FILE_TYPE PDF
TC_BOM_UPDATE Y
Server Administration
The 4 primary TCAA preferences that control Item IDs, revision IDs and drawing filenames during the save
process are:
- TCAA_Mapping_ItemID (see section Defining Item IDs for additional details)
- TCAA_Mapping_RevID (see section Defining Item Revision IDs for additional details)
- TCAA_file_rename (see section Defining File Names for additional details)
- TCAA_file_name_rule (see section Defining File Names for additional details)
It is necessary to understand the effect each one has on the save process and resulting Teamcenter Item
identification:
- the *file* preferences above focus on the creation of the actual file name as saved in Teamcenter
and focus must be on not creating broken references if bulk import is utilized.
- the *Mapping* pair of preferences above focus on the creation of a unique ITEM and Revision ID in
Teamcenter and set where these unique IDs originate from.
These 4 preferences are part of the entire set of TCAA preferences described below in the section titled Site
Preference Settings.
Note: these preferences play a role only during new item creation. Therefore they are not taken into
consideration when updating data already stored in Teamcenter.
Section File Renaming and Item ID Mapping together recaps the possible cases for Item ID and file renaming
options.
The rule driving the process of assigning Item IDs is also known as Item ID mapping.
The Item ID mapping is controlled by TCAA_mapping_ItemID site preference.
After the bulk importing process is complete, it is recommended to switch this setting back to the value of 0 to
allow Teamcenter to provide item IDs.
If the file rename option is set to 0, files saved initially to Teamcenter will retain their original filename as
defined on the operating system (or last local save).
If the file rename option is set to 1, files will be renamed according to the file rename rule.
If the file rename rule option is set to 0, all files will get a file name matching the Item ID.
If the file rename rule option is set to 1, the Original File Name is appended to the Item ID for composing the
new file name.
When working with un-managed data, the file rename option must be switched off to prevent broken
references for drawings using XREFs.
If file rename option is left on, all drawings migrated to Teamcenter will be renamed in order to match the
Item ID (or Item ID + Original File Name). The remaining un-managed drawings will report unresolved
external references if referencing files that had been renamed.
When working with all managed data, which entails creating all new data in the context of other components
or referencing newly created components only after they have been saved to Teamcenter, automatic file
renaming can be switched on. This will eliminate the need to come up with unique filenames for all
components.
The following table reports possible and default values for the two options.
When file renaming is enabled (TCAA_file_rename = 1), the item ID and the file name become dependent on
each other.
The following table recaps the possible cases and the implemented behavior (000xxx stands for Item ID
generated by Teamcenter).
Datasets
The following table lists the Autodesk AutoCAD data components (datasets) that TCAA manages in
Teamcenter.
TCAA site preferences are not added to the server setup at installation time and must be specifically added
to alter default value. This may lead to unexpected behavior. It is recommended to specify each server
preference, even if left as default, to insure complete coverage and definitive expected behavior.
In order to override the default behavior for each TCAA site preference Teamcenter administrators have to
first create the site preference and then assign it the wanted value using Teamcenter Rich Client.
The current values for TCAA site preferences can be displayed using the command Preferences on TCAA
client side (available either in AutoCAD main menu or in Teamcenter menu):
Note: the Site options section is greyed out if the user is not currently logged into TCAA. In that case, the
shown values are not ensured to be consistent to the ones currently set in Teamcenter.
As previously stated the value of each site option is assigned to its default value and then overwritten with
the value coming from the related Teamcenter site preference (if existing).
The list of TCAA preferences currently defined in Teamcenter can be showed by an administrator in
Teamcenter Rich Client following these steps:
3. In the displayed dialog click on Index and then in Search On Preference Name enter the string
TCAA.
4. The Preferences List box contains the list of TCAA preferences currently defined. Just after TCAA
server installation such list is normally empty. This will cause each TCAA preference to be assigned
default settings.
5. Clicking on each preference will show its current value that can be modified and then saved with the
Modify command as highlighted in the following picture:
3. In the showed dialog click on Index and then on New, as highlighted in the following picture:
4. In the right panel defines the TCAA preference by setting its name, site scope, multiple values flag as
per TCAA documentation, the value to be assigned to the preference and finally click on Create.
The following picture shows how to create preference TCAA_file_rename and set it to 0:
Note: for each TCAA user the change to the preference will be effective starting from the next login in
TCAA.
TCAA_BOM_precision_preference
Description: specifies whether TCAA creates the BOMViews / BOMViewRevisions as Precise or Imprecise.
Possible values:
Imprecise
Precise
TCAA_check_in_on_save
Description: controls if datasets will be automatically checked in to Teamcenter during save from TCAA.
Possible values:
0 - Do not Check-In dataset on save. Users will manually perform Check-In. (Default)
1 - Check-In dataset on save
TCAA_file_rename
Description: controls whether AutoCAD filenames will be renamed to their ItemID value during save to
Teamcenter.
Possible values:
0 - Do not rename file on save
1 - Rename file on save with format depending on TCAA_file_name_rule option (Default)
Note: A value = 0 should be used for legacy data migration because renaming files will cause broken
references in other documents that refer to the original filename.
For additional details see section Defining File Names.
TCAA_file_name_rule
Description: controls how AutoCAD files will be renamed during save to Teamcenter. The value of this option
is taken into consideration only if file renaming is enabled (that is TCAA_file_rename is set to 1).
Possible values:
0 - the new file name matches the Item ID
1 - the original file name is appended to the Item ID for composing the new file name (Default)
For additional details see section Defining File Names.
TCAA_mapping_ItemID
Description: sets the Item ID mapping for data migration.
Possible values:
0 - For Teamcenter Item ID (Default)
1 - For AutoCAD File Name
For additional details see section Defining Item IDs.
TCAA_mapping_RevID
Description: sets the Item Rev ID mapping for data migration.
Possible values:
0 - For Item Rev ID from Teamcenter (Default)
1 - For Item Rev ID from drawing revision number
For additional details see section Defining Item Revision IDs.
TCAA_default_revision_rule
Description: sets the default revision rule to resolve the opening of drawings.
Possible values:
Latest Working (Default). Any valid Teamcenter revision rule can be defined for this preference.
TCAA_BOM_Update
Description: controls whether the PSE of a drawing with Xref(s) is updated when the main drawing is
updated.
Possible values:
Y(yes)/N(no) , Y (Default).
TCAA_template_items_list
Description: contains a list of drawing template Item IDs that will be downloaded automatically in AutoCAD
template folder every time the user logs into TCAA.
Possible values:
Multivalue site options containing a list of Item IDS
TCAA_saveas_enable
Description: controls whether new items can be created in TCAA. If set to 0 all the commands that let the
user to create new items in AutoCAD environment are disabled. PLM-oriented companies may have this
option set to 0 in order to ensure that all items are created in Teamcenter environment.
Default value: 1
TCAA_auxfiles_enable
Description: controls whether it is possible to create CAD neutral files when saving in TCAA. If set to 0 the
option Create auxiliary Output File in TCAA preferences is not available.
Default value: 1
TCAA_num_of_files_per_call
Description: max number of files transferred from Teamcenter. Directly affects performance of save and open
operations.
Default value: 50
TCAA_max_working_revisions
Description: limits the number of revisions shown in TCAA Home Browser for each item. If set to n, only the
last available n revisions will be showed.
Default value: -1 means all
PS_new_seqno_mode
Description: sets new sequence number mode.
Possible values:
new: new sequence numbers are assigned, old sequence numbers are overwritten; (Default)
existing: delegates the management of sequence numbers to Teamcenter, old sequence numbers
are maintained;
none: delegates the management of sequence numbers to Teamcenter;
For more information on this property please refer to the Teamcenter documentation.
TCAA_item_type_filter
Description: if this option is set (multiple values), TCAA will filter the list of available Item Types.
Example:
If the site option is set to TCAA_item_type_filter to the multi-value:
ME*
NX*
The default item type can be picked up from a list of item types starting with ME and NX as shown below:
TCAA_mapping_rule
Description: this option specifies the behavior of attribute mapping from Teamcenter to AutoCAD.
Possible values:
0 = apply mappings only to files in writeable state (Default)
1 = apply mappings to every file
TC_Allow_Longer_ID_Name=true
Setting this value to true (case sensitive) will enable user to have 128 characters in the Item Name.
Attribute Mapping
Each AutoCAD drawing holds a set of properties that can be modified within the AutoCAD session, such as
author, subject, title, etc. It is also possible to add custom drawing properties (refer to AutoCAD help for more
information about accessing and modifying AutoCAD drawing properties).
In addition to drawing properties exist attribute sets attached AutoCAD blocks.
AutoCAD drawing custom properties and blocks attributes can be mapped to specific Teamcenter attributes
belonging to Item, Item Revision or master forms.
In this way it possible to edit the drawing custom properties or the block attributes inside AutoCAD and have
them synched with Teamcenter during save or check-in.
It is also possible to change data in Teamcenter and have the related AutoCAD custom properties or block
attributes synched during loading from Teamcenter.
In order to work properly, the attribute mapping has to be defined in part on the server side and in part the
client side. In particular:
- on the server side, set the association between a Teamcenter attribute and an arbitrary symbolic
attribute name
- on the client side, set the association between each symbolic attribute name defined on the server
side and the actual AutoCAD drawing custom property or block attribute.
where:
<titleX> is a symbolic name that will be resolved to an AutoCAD attribute in the AttibuteMapping.xml
file on the client side.
<mappingX> is a reference to a specific Teamcenter attribute.
The /master qualifier is optional. If not specified it will act as /master=both.
The /description qualifier is optional.
The mappings are imported in to the database, and the values are updated on the form when the file is
imported into Teamcenter.
{ Dataset type="ACADDWG"
TITLE_NR : IRM.user_data_3 /master=cad /description="Attr_TITLE_NR_cad"
TITLE_DES2 : IRM.user_data_2 /master=iman /description="Attr_TITLE_DES2_iman"
TITLE_DES1 : IRM.user_data_1 /description="Attr_TITLE_DES1_both"
}
The association between symbolic names (TITLE_NR, TITLE_DES2 and TITLE_DES1 in the example) and
actual drawing custom properties or block attributes has to be defined in the proper AttributeMapping.xml file
on the client side.
<DwgAttributeMapping>
<AttrInfo>
<TcEngName>TITLE_DES1</TcEngName>
<Block>
<BlockName>DIN_TITLE</BlockName>
<BlockAttrName>GEN-TITLE-DES1{15.54}</BlockAttrName>
</Block>
</AttrInfo>
<AttrInfo>
<TcEngName>TITLE_DES2</TcEngName>
<Block>
<BlockName>DIN_TITLE</BlockName>
<BlockAttrName>GEN-TITLE-DES2{21.21}</BlockAttrName>
</Block>
</AttrInfo>
<AttrInfo>
<TcEngName>TITLE_NR</TcEngName>
<Block>
<BlockName>DIN_TITLE</BlockName>
<BlockAttrName>GEN-TITLE-NR{13.37}</BlockAttrName>
</Block>
</AttrInfo>
</DwgAttributeMapping>
Chapter 4 Glossary
Application Interface
Teamcenter Engineering object used to manage data in an import or export transaction.
Attribute
Named storage variable that describes an object and is stored with the object. Users can search the
database for objects using the object's attributes.
In an object, an attribute is a name/value pair; in the database, an attribute is a field.
BOM View
Teamcenter Engineering object used to manage product structure information for an item.
Component
Objects used to build up a drawing.
Dataset
Teamcenter Engineering workspace object used to manage data files created by other software applications.
Each dataset can manage multiple operating system files, and each dataset references a dataset tool object
and a dataset type object.
Drawing
A layout of drawing views in model space or layout. Beyond sketched geometry, it can contain blocks,
groups, external references, etc. (refer to AutoCAD Help for details).
Integration
Active-mode relationship between an application and Teamcenter in which Teamcenter is brought into the
application. The application drives Teamcenter to provide the functionality, such as implicit checkout when
data is modified, and reading and writing data directly from Teamcenter in a secured way. Data is exported
My Navigator
Teamcenter Engineering Portal client application that is the main access point for managing product
information. My Navigator provides the functionality for creating objects in the Teamcenter Engineering
database, querying the database for objects, checking in and checking out objects, and managing tasks.
Users can also open objects, automatically launching the related application.
Each user has a personal My Navigator window that displays product information as graphical objects.
Although users share product information across the enterprise, they organize this information individually in
personal workspaces.
Named Reference
File types that are managed by a dataset. Datasets are the only workspace objects that use named
references.
PLMXML
Siemens PLM Software format for facilitating product lifecycle interoperability using XML. It is open and
based on standard W3C XML schemas. Representing a variety of product data both explicitly and via
references, PLM XML provides a lightweight, extensible and flexible mechanism for transporting high-content
product data over the Internet, and aims to form the basis of a rich interoperability pipeline connecting
Siemens PLM Software products and third party adopter applications.
Portal
User interface to Teamcenter Engineering comprised of Portal Framework and Teamcenter Engineering
Product Data Management (PDM) applications in a single environment.
PSE
See Product Structure Editor.
RAC
RAC is referred for the Teamcenter Rich Client. It is also referred as the Portal interface of Teamcenter.
SOA
SOA Architecture is a software standard which allows disparate applications built on different platforms to
exchange data from one another. SOA Architecture has become the de facto standard within Siemens PLM
Software for providing integration between Teamcenter and other CAD applications.
TCAA
See Teamcenter Integration for AutoCAD.
TC_DATA
Directory location of the Teamcenter shared data subdirectories and files. Each data directory is associated
with a single database instance.
TC_ROOT
This is the folder where Teamcenter is installed
Chapter 5 Troubleshooting
This chapter contains some error messages and known causes and fixes.
TCAA log
The TCAA logs are generated in %TEMP% folder.
For each TCAA session a separate log file is generated.
The file name contains the timestamp and it is in the format TCAA_<date>_<time>.LOG.
Teamcenter log
Teamcenter log files are created under the %temp% folder of the server.
The log files are created in the tcserverxxx.syslog format.
Naming Rules
Teamcenter provides the ability to define Naming Rules for Business Objects. These include the auto
generation of Item IDs and Item Revision IDs. TCAA creates items when saving an AutoCAD drawing. TCAA
Save supports adherence to the naming rules defined in the Teamcenter database, for the selected Item
Type.
The following error dialogs are displayed, when invalid values are supplied in the Save Dialog.
Error dialog when defined pattern for Item ID is NNN, and input is 12345.
Error dialog when defined pattern for Item Revision ID is @, and input is 1.
Note: TCAA does not support naming rule for an Item Name. For details on creation of naming rules, please
refer to Teamcenter Help on Business Modeler.
Performance Enhancements
This section describes options that are available to improve the performance of TCAA.
For a Windows base installation of Teamcenter Web Access, occasionally an operation on a socket could not
be performed because the IPC queue was full.
WARNING: If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to
reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from
using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.
The default maximum number of ephemeral TCP ports for Microsoft Windows NT is 5000. A new parameter has
been added to Windows NT 3.51 Service Pack 5 and to Windows NT 4.0 or higher. To increase the maximum
number of ephemeral ports you must set the registry parameter, as follows:
A Windows base installation of Teamcenter Web Access may run out of ports before TCP/IP releases closed
connections.
To resolve this behavior, you must make the following registry change:
WARNING: If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to
reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from
using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrectControlSet\services\Tcpip\Parameters
TcpTimedWaitDelay
Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Time in seconds
Valid Range: 30-300 (decimal)
Default: 0xF0 (240 decimal)