About product views

You can save data in the assembly viewer, including current items, zoom factor, rotation angle, and pan displacements. You can retrieve a saved product view (sometimes called a 3D snapshot or snapshot view) during a subsequent session or share it with other users. You can only save or retrieve product views when a base view structure is displayed in the viewer. You cannot create product views of occurrence groups.

You can create product views that contain one or more of the following:

• Collaboration contexts

• Structure contexts

• Configurator contexts

• Item revisions (structure lines)

• 2D and 3D NX CAD and Lifecycle Visualization files

• Motion (VFM) files

• Published documents, including work instructions

Each product view is stored in a dataset containing a thumbnail image file, a PLM XML session file, 3D markup layers, and the top-level item of the view.

You can configure the structure with revision rules, effectivity, variant rules, and similar techniques. If appropriate, you can use several Show Unconfigured menu commands to hide unconfigured objects in the structure and in the viewer. When product views are captured, these view selections are taken into account; otherwise, potentially unbuildable combinations of parts may be displayed when the view is restored. You can retrieve the original state of the menu commands and consequently the original state of the view.

If the product view is attached to a structure and the structure is cloned, the product view functions correctly in the new (clone) structure. Likewise, product views may be attached to a structure that is shared with Multi-Site Collaboration.

You can also update product views in the Lifecycle Viewer or stand-alone Lifecycle Visualization. You send a dynamic product view to one of these applications, and then create a new product view or update and replace the existing one. When you send the updated product view back to Teamcenter, you can open it in the assembly viewer.

Your Teamcenter administrator sets the size and presentation of the product views with system properties and preferences.

Related Topics

• Manage unconfigured data in a product view