Set up CAD BOM smart search criteria

While the system defines some search criteria to locate unlinked or broken alignments between a part BOM and CAD BOM, you can set the MEDesignToBomFindDesignsSearchCriteriaProperties preference to help end users search for CAD objects based on additional attribute criteria and then create heavy or light alignments based on search results.

For broken links, the system looks for the following in order.

1. Matching ID in context (IDIC).

2. Matching item ID.

3. Matching Absolute Transformation Matrix (ATM).

4. The MEDesignToBomFindDesignsSearchCriteriaProperties preference properties. Example AIE_OCC_ID and AIEAIE_OCC_NAME.

If any of these do not match, the CAD object is excluded from the end user's search results. If the part object was never linked to the CAD object, the system looks for the following in order.

1. The MEDesignToBomFindDesignsSearchCriteriaProperties preference settings.

2. A matching ATM value.

Note

If no previous alignment exists and there is a change to the CAD part (for example, the ATM has changed), the search may not locate the object.

Related Topics

• What is a part BOM and why use it?

• Align a part BOM using a smart search