Working with collaboration contexts > Creating a design study using a composition
Adding items directly to composition
If you do not want to impact the source structure, you must add new items directly to the composition. Do this, for example, by adding the component to the clipboard in My Teamcenter and pasting it into the composition. If items are added to the composition in this way, they are not affected by the source structure. Therefore, you can move components in the composition without moving the components in the source.
Note
If you move the components that are added to the composition (for example, using Graphics→Transformation→Persistent Transformation or in NX), Teamcenter creates an absolute occurrence override transform in the composition.
Source: https://docs.sw.siemens.com/en-US/doc/282219420/PL20251212545240207.plm00043/adding_items_to_compositions · retrieved 2026-07-11