Making feature searches

When you manage features in the body in white environment, you frequently deal with large amounts of features within a product structure. The Structure Search view helps you to find the features you seek, and narrow down the list of matches to a manageable number of search results. You can search for the following features:

• Weld points

• Arc welds

• Datums

The starting point for a feature query is an item in a product structure. Using the feature search you can:

• Find all features in the search scope that are assigned or not assigned to specified operations.

• Find all features in the search scope that are connected to specified parts.

• Find all features in the search scope that are connected to parts assigned to specified operations.

• Find all features in the search scope that are connected to parts in the incoming IPA of specified processes.

• Find all datums that were assigned to previous stations.

You can combine a feature search with other search criteria.

• Use the spatial search to find all features in the search scope of a specific type by bounding box or in the proximity of a given part.

• Use the attribute search to find all features in the search scope of a specific type that contain a specified attribute value. These attributes can be defined on:

The feature occurrence (occurrence notes).

The feature attribute form on the PSOccurence or the item revision.

Any other form on the PSOccurence or the item revision.

The feature item or item revision.

Related Topics

• Enter feature criteria