Creating trace links for manufacturing objects

You can create trace links between requirements objects and manufacturing objects. The manufacturing source or target can be a regular structure line, or you can store the trace link on an absolute occurrence. An absolute occurrence is an occurrence that contains additional information that is only relevant in the context of another structure line higher in the structure. Absolute occurrences are created by setting a parent or grandparent line as the context of an edit, and adding information specific to this relationship.

If you create a trace link on an absolute occurrence, this trace link exists in all structures containing both the context line and the trace link object in the same hierarchical relationship. If multiple revisions of the structure containing the related structures exist, the trace link exists in all the revisions. If you delete the trace link from one revision, it is deleted from all revisions.

When creating trace links with manufacturing objects, either the source or the target must be a requirements object.

Related Topics

• Managing absolute occurrences (in-context editing)