Working with manufacturing views

Teamcenter presents manufacturing data in views, each view providing its own specific way of managing or modifying the data. There are primary views and secondary views. The most commonly used views in Teamcenterinclude engineering bills of materials (EBOMs), manufacturing BOMS (MBOMs), plant and product bills of process (product and plant BOPs), and graphic views.

Views provide an environment where you can author manufacturing processes based on additional information available in Teamcenter. You can construct processes and operations, relate additional relevant information, and collaborate with others who are working on the same information using studies and alternatives. There are primary views and secondary views.

• A primary view shows one configurable structure. That structure can contain a base view and several occurrence groups.

• A secondary view shows specific types of data related to the primary view with which it is associated. It can, depending on your needs, change its content if you select a new object in a primary view. Many of the secondary views are available only if you select an object in a primary view that contains valid input.

In addition to primary and secondary views, you can use the following:

• Collaboration Context Tree view to show all loaded objects.

• Structure Search view that allows you to search for any object regardless of view.

• Graphics view to display any visualization data associated with the structure. The Graphics view is closely associated with the primary view from which you open it.

You can open multiple views simultaneously. You can undock views and move them to a convenient position. You can open the same structure multiple times in different views. To assist you in keeping track of which views are associated, primary views and secondary views are color-coded. Primary and associated secondary views have the same framed color. In addition, Teamcenter frames the active view (the one in which you are currently working) in black.

Each view has a toolbar with buttons to execute the common tasks pertaining to that particular view. The view menu contains additional menu commands pertaining to that view. More complex tasks or tasks pertaining to several views simultaneously are found on the main application toolbar. The views have some features in common, such as the ability to change the displayed columns or filtering the results. You find these features in the view menu.

Related Topics

• Basic concepts of views, layouts, and view networks