Working with publishing tools

You can create publishing pages in the embedded viewer and collect them into portfolios. A typical publishing page is a work instruction document, and a portfolio may contain all the work instructions needed at a particular assembly station. By default after installation, Teamcenter provides you with sample files. To use publishing tools in your environment, you must configure it to suit your needs.

Publishing pages are Visio files that are saved as datasets with the selected BOM line.

Visio documents are constructed using shapes that can appear as text and graphics. A rich library of shapes are provided in the Visio installation.

The Teamcenter publishing tools extend the shape library to include shapes called assets that you can link to data in Teamcenter. Assets can display text, tables, images, or a link to a Microsoft Word file or master form. For example, in Teamcenter you can configure a product assembly, view it, add markups, and capture the graphics in a product view (snapshot) that you can then display in a 3D asset. If the data in Teamcenter is subsequently updated, you can update the publishing page to show the changes.

You can organize collections of publishing pages into portfolios, which you can view, publish to HTML for a Web server or publish to PDF, or print in My Teamcenter using the options that appear in the viewer tab after you select the portfolio object. A portfolio can contain multiple work instructions, generic pages, header and footer information, a table of contents, and cover and trailer pages.