Manufacturing Process Planner general functionality > Working with collaborative designs > Assigning from a collaborative design to an MBOM

Assigning design features to an MBOM

If you work with design features in 4GD, you can assign these features to the MBOM when working in Manufacturing Process Planner. The design features are stored in design container elements in 4GD. During the assignment action, Teamcenter copies the mapped property values from the design feature to the corresponding properties on the BOM line of the manufacturing feature. Attribute groups can be mapped to a form either on the occurrence or on revision, depending on the mapping.

The types of features supported is limited to the weld types that NX supports. Beginning with NX 9, Arc Fillet Weld, Arc Groove Weld, and Surface Weld types are supported.

For more information about weld types that are supported by NX, see the NX documentation.

Design features are connected to two or more parts. On assignment, the relations are preserved. If you assign a design feature together with the related design elements (or the design elements are already assigned), the relations between the them are mapped to relations between the parts and the manufacturing features in the MBOM structure.

Once you assign design features, you can run an accountability check of the subset definition against the MBOM to ensure that all welds are assigned and to compare properties. You can propagate any differences you find.

The following constants affect the behavior of the assignment process:

Cpd0DFToBOMPropertyMapping global constant Specifies the design feature properties that are mapped to form properties on a BOM line.
Cpd0DFPropertiesForMBOM global constant Specifies the initial set of properties carried over during assignment. Your administrator can define a different set of properties for assignment based on a feature type.
CPD0AttachToItemRevision business constant Specifies whether attachments are associated to the item revision or BOM line in the context of the root level.
Cpd0ItemTypeForDesignFeature business constant Specifies what type of item is automatically created when the corresponding design feature is assigned to the MBOM.