Hide subassemblies using end items

To improve Teamcenter performance and hide information that is not active in your process, you can make one or more assemblies in a product or plant structure into an end item. When you expand a structure containing an end item, Teamcenter does not expand beyond the end item.

You can apply end items to an entire item, to all occurrences of the item in structures where it exists, or to the current occurrence only.

Procedure

1. In a product or plant structure, select one or more product or plant lines and choose Edit→End Item Assembly State.

2. In the End Item Assembly State dialog box, to create the end item on the selected object, select the Item check box.

When you select the Item check box, the Occurrence check box is also selected. Selecting the Item check box causes all newly created instances to become end items.

3. If it is not already selected, select the Occurrence check box.

4. To apply the end item assembly state:

To the specified occurrence in all structures, accept the default option, In all structures where this selected occurrence appears.Caution The occurrence is the same if the parent of the occurrence is the same.

To an end item for the currently selected occurrence (BOM line) only, select For the current selection only.

Neither selection influences other, existing occurrences (different parents) inside or outside the structure. Note To avoid setting the selected occurrence to an end item, clear the Occurrence check box.

5. Click OK.

Results

The selected item appears as an end item or overridden end item in the structure.

Note

• To remove an end item assembly designation, repeat step 1, clear the check boxes in the End Item Assembly State dialog box, and click OK.

• You can temporarily allow expansion to display the lines below the end item assembly in Multi-BOM Management. This expansion is valid for the current session only. Expansion also occurs when you use Find commands.

Related Topics

• Configuring the export of end item assemblies