Basic tasks using Multi-Structure Manager

Use Multi-Structure Manager to perform the following tasks:

• View the assembly structure of a products contained within the contexts, navigate around the structures, and find components in the structures.For more information, see Overview of creating a collaboration context.

• Create or open existing contexts, add temporary structures, save contexts, and work with absolute occurrences.For more information, see Overview of creating a collaboration context.

• Add components to the product structure, change components belonging to the structure, define global alternates and substitute components, and perform many other product structure editing tasks.For more information, see Building and editing product structure.

• Create occurrence groups and absolute occurrences.For more information, see Introduction to occurrence groups.

• Track changes using incremental change.For more information, see Incremental change overview.

• Configure classic or modular variants or search for a variant item, or unlink a variant item from the structure.For more information, see Working with variants—overview.

• Search the structure for items on the clipboard, or search by name. You can perform where-used and where-referenced searches. You can also search for appearances.For more information, see Searching a structure for items on the clipboard.

• Create and view a preliminary data indicator (PDI) or baseline. For more information, see About baselining or preliminary structures.

• Create an intermediate data capture (IDC) of any configured structure including a collaboration context, structure context, or group of BOM lines.For more information, see About intermediate data captures.

• Compare two structures to ensure all lines in the source structure are consumed in the target structure.For more information, see Running accountability checks.

• Create directional relationships between two structures to relate specific aspects of these structures, such as the functional structure to the logical structure.For more information, see Allocations overview.

• Import and export data using PLM XML.For more information, see Exporting items or structures.