Enter feature criteria

Feature criteria comprise a selection of conditions that you create, and then join by AND or OR logical operators to form a search query. You can refine this search by combining it with criteria from the General search. These are combined using an AND operator.

Procedure

1. Open the appropriate search criteria section of the Structure Search view. For example, open the Weld Points Criteria section to perform a weld point search, or the Arc Weld Criteria section to perform an arc weld search.

2. Click the Add button.

3. Select one of the conditions and click Add.

Teamcenter opens a dialog box where you can specify the processes, operations or parts on which to perform the search. This dialog box is modeless so that you can select the appropriate object for the search. The add button on the dialog box is enabled only when you select the appropriate object for the condition. Also, at the time of adding the condition, if Teamcenter already has valid objects selected, those get added to the list automatically.

4. Enter the condition data for each of the conditions by clicking Add. In each of these condition dialog boxes, you specify the scope by selecting an appropriate structure line and clicking the Add button . You can remove the line, if necessary, by clicking Remove . Select the Consider sub hierarchy of selected objects option to expand the search to include all children of the specified process or operation.

Assigned to Teamcenter searches for all the features assigned to specific processes and operations. The scope for this condition is a process or operation.

Not assigned to Teamcenter searches for all features not assigned to the specified processes or operations.

Connected to Teamcenter searches for all features connected to specified parts. The scope for this condition is an item in a product structure. You can only select parts from the same product structure from which the search is initiated. Select Full Match to return features that are connected only to the specified parts (or to several of the specified parts, if multiple parts are listed).

Connected to consumed Teamcenter searches for features connected to parts that are consumed by the specified processes and operations. The scope for this condition is a process or operation.

Select Consider In Process Assembly in addition to consumed parts to find all features in the search scope that are connected to parts in the incoming in-process assembly of a given process.

Select Consider Dynamic In Process Assembly to find all features in the search scope that are connected to parts in the incoming dynamic in-process assembly of a given process.

Select Full Match to return features that are connected only to the consumed parts.

Assigned to Previous Station (available only for datum points). Teamcenter searches for all datums assigned to the previous stations of the given process or operation, as defined by the process flow in the PERT view. It also searches for datum points assigned to the root process or operation directly.

5. Select a logical operator.

AND Each condition (row) in the condition table must be fulfilled by the search result.

OR One or more of the conditions (rows) in the condition table must be fulfilled by the search result.

You can only specify one logical operator for the entire condition table.

6. Click OK.

Teamcenter adds the condition type to the condition table and completes the column entries.

7. (Optional) Perform one of these actions:

Edit columns that are applicable to the chosen condition in the table cell.

Edit a row in the table by selecting it and clicking Edit. Teamcenter opens the condition dialog box.

Delete a row in the table by selecting it and clicking Delete.

8. Click Search.Teamcenter runs the search and displays the results in the Structure Search Results view. If you selected Show results in a new tab, Teamcenter creates a new Result tab for each time you run the search.

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• About search results