软属性

Soft Typing is the name of the set of Windchill capabilities that allows a customer to, at runtime, add additional types and attributes to the out-of-the-box Windchill Schema. 

软属性是Windchill的功能集，允许一个客户，在运行时，添加额外的类型和属性，以弥补目前的系统上现成的Windchill的架构的名称。

This is done without having adding additional tables to the database, without restarting the database, and without restarting the system.

这样做，而无需增加额外的表到数据库中，而不需要重新启动数据库，无需重新启动系统。

With the Soft Typing capabilities, customers can add data types and meta data attributes that are meaningful to them and which are necessary for their business processes. 

有了软属性设置功能，客户可以添加那些对他们有意义的数据类型，那些元数据属性是必要的满足他们的业务流程需要。

For all intents and purposes, these customer-defined types are no different than any other out-of-the-box object in the system: Types can assigned access control rules, can be assigned workflows and lifecycles, can be assigned custom UIs, can have Object Initialization Rules assigned to them, are accessible via APIs, etc.

对于所有自己定义的类型和属性，这些用户定义的类型与系统中的任何其他开箱即装即用的对象没有什么不同：

No user interface modifications are necessary as the Windchill user interfaces automatically accommodate (e.g. adapt to) these additional Types and Attributes.

没有必要去修改用户的界面，因为Windchill用户界面自动适应（如适应）这些额外的类型和属性。

The general guideline to be followed is this: If a need can be satisfied by soft typing, then it should. That is, do not customize (i.e. create modeled extensions) to the out-of-the-box schema. The reason for this rule is to minimize the total cost of ownership of Windchill and minimize upgrade costs and burdens. This, in no way,is a limitation on the customizability of Windchill; but, rather, the intent of the rule is to reduce the cost of ownership.

一般应遵循的是这样的原则：如果需要应该可以通过软属性的方式处理。也就是说，不自定义（即创建模拟的扩展） ，以出位的现成的模式。究其原因，这条规则是尽量减少Windchill中的总拥有成本，并最大限度地减少升级成本和负担。这绝不是在Windchill中的可定制性的限制; ，而是规则的目的是降低拥有成本。