Packing or unpacking lines with reference designators

You can pack or unpack product structure lines that include reference designators. For example, if you pack eight occurrences of the same part with different reference designators, the Ref Designator property column shows a concatenated set of reference designators, for example, C1, C5-7, C10, C14-16. You cannot edit the reference designators of packed lines.

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There are additional rules that determine general packing rules, as described previously. This preference only controls reference designator packing.

You can also unpack packed lines that include concatenated reference designators. Each unpacked line shows a single reference designator, for example, C1.

Teamcenter validates the correct reference designator format. All reference designators must be in the format prefix number, where prefix is a string of one or more uppercase letters and number is an integer.

You can search for reference designator values. As with other product structures searches, this is a wildcard search; if you search for C1, the system actually searches for C1. You can also include reference designators in structure comparisons.

You can specify the reference designator values in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) formats. In the ASME format, the reference designator value is in the capital letter followed by a number and suffix letter. For example, S1A.