Enter the spatial search criteria

Procedure

1. Click the ... button to the right of the Spatial Filter box.Teamcenter displays the Spatial Criteria dialog box, allowing you to define one of two types of spatial filters and optional target parts.Note The spatial filter option is disabled if Teamcenter is not configured for cacheless searches or if the necessary NX or JT files are not available.

2. (Optional) Select the Use selections from table check box above the Target Parts table if you want to search against specified target parts.

3. Use the Proximity and 3D box radio buttons in the Spatial Criteria dialog box to select a search type, and then click OK to save the selections.

Proximity Limits the search to parts within a specified proximity distance, for example, all parts within 10 centimeters of part X.

3D box Allows you to define a three dimensional box in the embedded viewer and search for parts completely inside, completely outside or intersecting the box. Use the Spatial Criteria dialog box to define the coordinates and size of the box. Note If you are making appearance searches, you can only search inside and intersecting the box when TruShape filtering is selected.

Note You can use altreps (alternative representations) to define different physical configurations or shapes of a flexible part such as a tube or hose. Spatial searching takes into account an alternate geometric shape of a flexible part by searching the dataset that corresponds to the altrep defined on the occurrence object.

Related Topics

• Use target parts

• Define a proximity filter

• Define a spatial filter with a 3D box