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Manage features with the Manufacturing Features view

The Manufacturing Features view is a dockable view that shows all the manufacturing features under the current product scope in a table-like view. It helps you manage scattered manufacturing features in a product structure in an easy and systematic way. Because the features displayed in the Manufacturing Features view are BOM lines, you can use the shortcut menu to perform many tasks.

Procedure

Right-click an item revision in the product structure and choose Open with→Manufacturing Features view from the shortcut menu.

Teamcenter opens the Manufacturing Features view with the selected line in the product structure as the scope of the view. By default, Teamcenter displays all the features of the type chosen in the previous session below this selected line, including those contained in child parts. The configuration shown below the scope at the top of the view is the same as that of the product structure. If you change the product configuration, Teamcenter clears the Manufacturing Features view. You must then reset the scope. You can open multiple Manufacturing Features views. Note The Manufacturing Features view does not show connected parts that are not expanded.

Choose the feature that you want to display from the list of features by clicking the Select Manufacturing Feature Type button at the top of the view.

You can choose from:

Arc Welds

Datum Points

Weld Points

Do as many of the following as necessary.

Choose this from the shortcut menu

Copy

Assign a feature to a process or operation by pasting the copied feature into it.

Send to

Open a feature in another application.

Refresh

Refresh the component and the view.

Properties

View structure line properties.

Find in Source Views

Find the original line in the product structure.

Find in All Visible Views

Find the occurrence of the selected feature in the process structure, if that pane is open.

Blank

Hide the display of the selected feature in the assembly viewer if that view is open.

Display

Display the selected feature in the assembly viewer if that view is open.

Add to Favorites

Add selected features to a feature list.

View assignment indication.
Reset the scope of the view.
Filter data in the view.
(Optional) Modify the column configuration.
(Optional) Export data to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet by clicking the Menu button and choosing Objects to Excel from the view menu commands.You can export either selected data or all data. If the data is filtered based on some condition, only filtered data is available for export. Only textual data is exported to Excel. Teamcenter does not export graphics.