Authoring manufacturing process plans > 4D planning – visualizing construction over time

Perform a 4D analysis search

By default, when running a 4D analysis, Teamcenter takes parts assigned as MEConsumed or Removed into consideration. If you want other consumption types considered, your administrator must add them to the ME4DRelationTypePartsConsumed preference.

Procedure

Select a process as scope for the search in the 4D Gantt view and click on the view toolbar.

Teamcenter opens the 4D Analysis dialog box.

Enter date information. Do one of the following:

Select a process in the structure view (not the root process), and click beside the Process box. Teamcenter uses the scheduled start date of the process as input for the 4D analysis and searches for all parts belonging to processes that were started on or before that start date. The type of start date that Teamcenter uses as input is specified in the ME4DProcessStartDateFromTask preference.

Enter a date range by selecting a start and finish date. Teamcenter searches for all parts belonging to processes that were started between the given dates.

Select the process that is to be the scope of the search. By default, Teamcenter enters the top line of the process structure that you selected when opening the dialog box.
Select a product from the Associated Product list.

This list displays all the products that are associated to the current process structure using the Link/Associate→Associate Product as Target shortcut menu command. You cannot associate any new structure using this dialog box.

Enhance the search using the following criteria:

Item attributes

Classification

Occurrence notes

Spatial search

Form attributes

(Optional) Remove graphics from the Graphics view each time you run the analysis by selecting Clear existing 3D graphics.
Click Analyze.

Results

Teamcenter displays parts found by the search in the Graphics view as it finds them.

Note

Teamcenter generally requires more time to load graphics than to complete the search. The progress bar on the dialog box completes first, but the progress bar on the main Teamcenter status bar takes longer to complete. If you stop the search, Teamcenter still loads all the parts found up to the time you stop the search so it may take some time before you can continue working in Teamcenter.

When the search is complete, Teamcenter loads the results in the 4D Gantt view. You can see a tree structure representing the processes and operations found by the search as well as a Gantt chart displaying the start and end dates of the search results. If you are not satisfied with the search results, you can modify the tasks in the Schedule Manager view and re-run the search. You can compare the updated information with a baseline of the schedule prepared before the modifications.