Visualize structure elements located within partitions

Visualize structure elements located within partitions You can visualize structure elements that are located within partitions. You can select a partition scheme to view specific partitions and their associated elements highlighted in the 3D viewer. Teamcenter dynamically updates the 3D view when you assign elements to partitions or unassign elements from partitions. Procedure Open the structure that you want to visualize. By default, the structure opens in the partition scheme that is set as the primary scheme. Note Ensure that a partition scheme exists before you open the structure that you want to visualize. For information on partition schemes and partitions, see Structure Partitions ─ Usage. Select the required scheme from Partition Scheme that contains the required partitions. To visualize the structure elements located within a partition, select the partition, and go to the 3D viewer. All the elements within the selected partition are highlighted with their bounding boxes. If the selected partition has in turn a child partition within it, all the structure elements within the child partition are also highlighted in the 3D viewer. You can choose to not visualize the elements of a specific partition by clicking Show/Hide. For example, the icon is displayed next to WHEELS & TIRES, as shown in the following image. To visualize the elements again, click Show/Hide again. When you set variant criteria on partitions, the structure is configured to either show or hide the partitions and the elements within. Accordingly, the elements are displayed in the 3D viewer as well. In several cases, the configured structure and the 3D viewer might not be synchronized. Scenario 1 For a structure in a workset, a Functional scheme is applied and contains a variant criterion, VC1. In this case, the structure elements with a different variant criterion, VC2, are not included in the structure. However, the 3D viewer shows these elements. When you switch to a different partition scheme, the same scenario applies. In such cases, for structures in a workset, you can synchronize the partitioned structure and the 3D viewer by clicking Replay. Scenario 2 A component resides in two different partitions. It is included in the structure configured for one partition, whereas it is not included in the structure configured for the other. When such a mismatch occurs, the component is displayed both in the partitioned structure and in the 3D viewer. Scenario 3 In a partition scheme, structure elements at different hierarchical levels reside in two different partitions. When you set variant criteria on a partition to configure the structure such that the partition is not included in one case, the structure and the 3D viewer show a mismatch. Siemens recommends configuring the system to restrict the addition of structure elements in partitions in such a manner. In the Partition Scheme Assignment view, the 3D view for the Unassigned pane displays only the unassigned elements. When you drag one or more elements from the Unassigned pane to the Assigned pane, Teamcenter updates the elements in the 3D view for the Unassigned pane accordingly. Similarly, the 3D view for the Assigned pane gets updated. Thus, in both panes, the elements that you see in the tree structure match the ones you see in the 3D view. Engineering BOM Management ─ Usage, 2606 Unpublished work. © 2026 Siemens