Understanding origins

When you use a generic BOP as a template for the creation of a product BOP or allocate processes or operations from a product BOP to a plant BOP, Teamcenter creates an Origin relation between the structures. It also creates Origin relations between each individual process, operation, and partition in the product BOP and the corresponding origin in the generic BOP. Teamcenter uses the Origin relations to trace objects in the product BOP to their counterparts in the generic BOP when you compare the structures using accountability checking.

Note

When pasting a partition, process, or operation from a generic BOP to a product BOP (or product BOP to a plant BOP), Teamcenter creates an origin link.

When you use the Paste Duplicate command on a partition, process, or operation from a generic BOP to a product BOP (or product BOP to a plant BOP),Teamcenter does not create an origin link.

You cannot delete a partition if it is the origin of another partition. Consequently, you cannot delete a generic BOP if it is the origin of any product BOP. You can, however, delete processes or operations that are origins of other processes or operations, but the cloned processes or operations are still marked as having an origin (for example, they still have an allocation indication symbol).