How diagram edits affect Teamcenter structures

Note Microsoft Visio Professional must be installed on your computer. Visio Standard is not supported. Siemens Digital Industries Software assumes that you are familiar with Visio.

Diagrams are dynamically synchronized with structures in the Function view or the Logical Block view. Diagrams contain Visio stencils whose master shapes represent Systems Engineering objects.

Note In Teamcenter stencils, master shapes are related to object types through a mapping file.

You can use multiple Teamcenter stencils in the same diagram. You can also use stencils that are not mapped to Teamcenter, such as those provided with Visio.

Note To access Teamcenter stencils, you use the Shapes button on the diagram view toolbar. Native Visio shapes do not affect the corresponding structure in Systems Engineering, although they are saved in the diagram.

As you add, modify, and remove shapes in a diagram, the same objects are created, modified, and removed dynamically in the structure. To save the diagram content in Teamcenter, click the Save button to the right of the tab at the top of the diagram view.

Note In Visio, the Save button is always enabled.

Your changes are applied to the corresponding objects in the Function or Logical Block view. As members of the diagram owner are added, modified, or removed in the structure, the diagram is updated with those changes when you do either of the following:

• Right-click the diagram page and choose Refresh Diagram.
• Open the corresponding diagram after structure changes are made.