Ways to visualize structures

You can visualize a structure in several ways.

• The Graphics view available in the manufacturing applications allows you to visualize the product, process, or plant structure. You open the Graphics view, sometimes referred to as the embedded viewer, by clicking in the structure view toolbar. When the Graphics view is open, many of the secondary views exhibit boxes in front of the nodes in the hierarchy structure that you can use to turn graphics display on and off.

• The rich client Lifecycle Viewer application provides you with nearly all of the visualization tools offered by the stand-alone viewer, many of which are not available in the embedded viewer within Teamcenter applications. You open the rich client Lifecycle Viewer application by clicking the Lifecycle Viewer application icon.

• Stand-alone Lifecycle Visualization provides you with all the functionality of a viewer view or the Lifecycle Viewer but with support for optional software modules such as Concept, Visualization Illustration, Quality Producer, and Variation Analysis. Stand-alone Lifecycle Visualization is integrated with Teamcenter, so you can send data from Teamcenter applications into the stand-alone viewer, perform analysis, and then save your work back to the database.

Related Topics

• Display images in the Graphics view

• Displaying images in views other than the Graphics view