Before you begin

Prerequisites

You need a basic understanding of the systems engineering discipline to use Systems Engineering.

You do not need special permissions to use Systems Engineering. Standard Teamcenter user and administrator accounts are adequate.

You need valid feature licenses to work with Systems Engineering. Certain menu commands are disabled if these licenses are not installed. Contact your Siemens Digital Industries Software representative for more information.

To use Teamcenter Extensions for Microsoft Office, the following must be installed on your computer:

• Teamcenter Extensions for Microsoft Office
• Microsoft .NET Framework

Note: For certified versions of Microsoft products, see the hardware and software certifications matrix.

Enable Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering is an optional module installed as part of the standard Teamcenter core installation procedure. It does not need to be enabled before you use it.

During installation in Teamcenter Environment Manager, select the following check boxes under Extensions→Systems Engineering and Requirements Management in the Features panel:

• Requirements Management
• Systems Engineering

If you have trouble gaining access to Systems Engineering, consult your Teamcenter system administrator. It may be a licensing issue.

Note: You can log on to Teamcenter only once. If you try to log on to more than one workstation at a time, an error message appears.

Configure Systems Engineering

Before using Systems Engineering, you must:

• Configure the necessary business rules.
• Set the appropriate preferences.

You can optionally configure some Systems Engineering features by setting user preferences.

• The MS Word view
• Keywords for parsing Word import documents
• Baselines
• Property columns
• Trace links

Note: Trace link features are not displayed until you set the corresponding preferences.

• Display of defining and complying objects as properties
• The Summary and Properties panes

Start Systems Engineering

Do one of the following:

• Select Systems Engineering in the Teamcenter navigation pane.

  Note: You may need to enter your user name and password to log on.

The Systems Engineering main window is displayed. You can begin using Systems Engineering by doing any of the following:

• Choose File→Import spec to display the Import Spec wizard.
• Double-click a requirement specification, requirement, paragraph, function, or logical block to display a new tab containing the item.
• Click the Most recently used structures button on the toolbar to select an object from the list.
• In another Teamcenter application, such as My Teamcenter, Structure Manager, or Multi-Structure Manager:
  • Navigate to a requirement specification, a requirement, a paragraph, a function, or a logical block that you want to send to Systems Engineering.
  • Right-click the object and choose Send To→Systems Engineering.
  • Systems Engineering opens with the object displayed in a new tab.

Tip: When you start a Systems Engineering session, the view you had open in the previous session is restored. The object you previously selected is highlighted, and the column configuration and revision rule are also restored. The previous session's sorting sequence is not retained, and the level expansion is retained only for the child object selected when the previous session ended. If multiple structure views were previously open, content is restored only for the last active view. If the client cache is cleared, the previous session settings are not restored.

Related Topics

• Overview of Systems Engineering options
• Introduction to Teamcenter Environment Manager
• Overview of systems engineering
• Configuring Systems Engineering
• Configuring display of the Summary view and Properties dialog box
• Configure baseline features
• Understanding property column configuration