About setting up custom designs for alignment

Before setting up custom designs for alignment, first ensure that they are qualified as engineering designs so that the custom designs also inherit the alignment properties along with other design properties. You can skip the steps 1 and 2 if you have created your custom parts and designs under the out-of-the-box (OOTB) part and design business object.

Next, set up the custom design for alignment as follows:

• (Optional) Specify if a corresponding part is required for the custom design by creating a persistent property, if it is not available already.
• (Optional) Specify if the corresponding part must be automatically created when the design is created by defining a runtime property, if it is not available already.
• Enable the display of the persistent and runtime properties.

After setting up the custom design for alignment, you must configure the generation of its aligned engineering BOM (Usage BOM or Assembly BOM).