Windchill

In Windchill, you can use MI Materials Gateway to assign materials to parts and product structures, and view existing assignments.

You can start MI Materials Gateway from the following locations in the Windchill browser, depending on whether you want to view a product, a library, a folder, or a part.

Note: Starting Gateway from a part within a Workspace is not supported. You can only start Gateway from within a Product or Library context in the Windchill commonspace.

To open MI Materials Gateway:

Option	Description
To view a product	From the Products list: Right-click the product and select MI Materials Gateway, or click in the toolbar From a product's Folders view: Navigate to the root folder (the product), click Actions and then select MI Materials Gateway From a product's Details view: Click Actions and then select MI Materials Gateway
To view a library	From the Libraries list: Right-click the library and select MI Materials Gateway, or click in the toolbar From a library's Folders view: Navigate to the root folder (the library), click Actions and then select MI Materials Gateway From a library's Details view: Click Actions and then select MI Materials Gateway
To view a folder	From the Folders view of a library or product: Right-click a folder and select MI Materials Gateway, or click Actions and then select MI Materials Gateway. Note: If a product contains folders in Windchill, these are shown as sub-assemblies of the product structure in MI Materials Gateway.
To view a Windchill part	From a part's Details view: Click Actions and then select MI Materials Gateway From the Folders view of a library or product: Right-click a part and select MI Materials Gateway

You can use MI Materials Gateway to find and assign materials from your Granta MI database.

For any material in your Granta MI database, you can run a 'Where Used' query to find all parts in your Windchill system that it has been assigned to. The query results are shown as a list of Windchill parts with assignments, and the list of results can be exported as a file or analyzed using reports and dashboards. See Finding where an assignment is used.