Update or remove a part BOM alignment

Update a part BOM

You can update a part BOM by simply aligning parts with design BOM elements again or by running a part BOM advanced accountability check. If parts are still shown as matching in the accountability check even though alignment is removed, use the Design Revision property to detect misalignments in partial matches.

Note

If you have apply and update a heavy alignment to a parent assembly that also contains heavily aligned children, and those children are affected by positioning transformations, you must also reapply heavy alignments to the children to update their transforms.

Remove one or more heavy or light alignments in the part BOM

You can remove an alignment if you make a mistake or a design change exists.

Warning

Removing an alignment can impact other structures that use the same part.  Avoid using the Remove Alignment command except in cases where the part revision in the part BOM needs to align with a new design item in the design BOM.  For aligning to another revision of the same design Item, use the heavy or light alignment commands.

Procedure

1. To remove one or more heavy or light alignments, respectively, in the part BOM, click a single part or press Ctrl and then select multiple parts with the same item ID.

2. Right-click a selected portion of the part BOM and choose Design Alignment→Remove Alignment.

In the Remove Part Design Alignment dialog box, all BOM lines that contain the part in the open part structure are displayed.

3. Click OK.

4. If you are removing alignments from other unselected BOM lines in the same structure, or if the alignment reomoval impacts any structure that contains its part revision, confirm that you want to remove the alignment from those structures by clicking OK in the warning.

The alignment is removed from the part or parts. Teamcenter removes any occurrence and item revision data, and heavy-aligned parts lose their end items and green precise color. Note If you later choose to realign a part that was aligned and its alignment removed as part of a multiple selection, Teamcenter remembers that the multiple parts were previously similarly aligned and applies alignment to the other parts as well. These parts display a gray icon until you unload and reload the part BOM.

Part BOM requirements