Building and editing product structure > Working with substitute components
Remove a substitute component
You can remove a substitute part that has related substitutes from the product structure. When you do this, Teamcenter:
Notifies you about all the related substitute parts of the selected substitute.
Notifies owners of the parent BVRs of all related parts by Teamcenter e-mail.
Changes or removes all relations in which the selected substitute parts participate to ensure consistency.
Removes the selected substitute part from the substitute part list.
Procedure
Select the required line in the product structure tree.
Click List Substitutes and Teamcenter displays the List Substitutes dialog box.
Select the substitute component you want to remove and click (Remove).You can also press Shift+Ctrl to select more than one substitute in the list for removal. If you remove all listed substitutes, the line in the product structure is no longer marked as having substitutes.
Source: https://docs.sw.siemens.com/en-US/doc/282219420/PL20251212545240207.plm00043/xid359761 · retrieved 2026-07-11