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Define 3D PMI in Teamcenter Lifecycle Visualization

When you incorporate product manufacturing information (PMI) into your assembly process plans in Process Planning for ETO, you can define how PMI is displayed in the Viewer panel for each operation by capturing screen shots with PMI in product views in Teamcenter Lifecycle Visualization.

Note

Teamcenter Lifecycle Visualization must be installed on your client machine.

Procedure

  1. If you have not done so already, search for and open an existing work package that contains processes and parts and navigate to the Work Instructions Authoring page.

  2. On the Process tab, select an operation that contains assembly PMI in the engineering bill of materials (EBOM) that is not shared with the manufacturing bill of materials (MBOM) and click to visualize the PMI with part data in the Viewer panel.

  3. On the Visuals panel beneath the Viewer panel, click Manage Product Views in Teamcenter Visualization .

Teamcenter Lifecycle Visualization opens, including assemblies, parts, operations, and PMI data.

  1. In the Assembly page of the Project Workspace window, expand the hierarchy structure and select the elements that you want to show in your screen shot.

Elements include parts, assemblies, subassemblies, operations, suboperations, and PMI data.

  1. Add markup text and use the Manipulate PMI and Confirm PMI Manipulation commands to move markup and PMI information not attached to nonvisible parts in the Viewing window.

For details on adding markup, working with PMI, and other information on Teamcenter Lifecycle Visualization, see the Teamcenter Lifecycle Visualization online help on Support Center.

  1. In the Project Workspace window, click the Snapshots page and add new product views of the manipulated Viewing window.

You can add as many views as you like for use in Process Planning for ETO.

  1. On the Snapshots page, select the product views, right-click one, and choose Save as Teamcenter Product View.

  2. In the New Teamcenter Product View Dataset dialog box, type a name for the dataset, click OK, and in the Information message box, click OK.

  3. Close Teamcenter Lifecycle Visualization and return to the Teamcenter Easy Plan browser.

The snapshot views are available for use in the Visuals panel.

Source: https://docs.sw.siemens.com/en-US/doc/282219420/PL20251212545240207.xid2214895/xid1980044 · retrieved 2026-07-11