Diagram template components

Note: Microsoft Visio Professional must be installed on your computer; Visio Standard is not supported. Siemens Digital Industries Software assumes familiarity with Visio and XML.

Systems Engineering refers to a user-selected diagram template in generating each diagram. For diagrams based on a given diagram template, the template:

• Controls the diagram contents through a stencil file (.vsx in Visio 2010; .vssx in Visio 2013 and later) and a mapping file (.xml). Stencil files and mapping files are stored in Teamcenter datasets associated with the diagram template revision object (of the VisioDiagramTemplateRevision object type).
• Designates a Teamcenter application domain and supplies domain-specific context information.
• Specifies rules for the diagram's member objects and rules for General Relationship Management (GRM) relations among the members.

Every diagram template has a flag that makes it available or unavailable. If a template is available, users can select it from a list when creating a diagram.

Note: A diagram's template association cannot be changed after the first time the diagram is saved.