Working with full database cacheless search > Creating bounding boxes
Create bounding boxes and TSO files
Set the QSEARCH_update_enabled preference to False.
Run create_or_update_bbox_and_tso -u=Tc-admin-user -p=password -g=group -translation_mode=JTTOBBOX+JTTOTSO -mode=process -object_list=%TC_TMP_DIR%\createOrUpdateBBoxAndtso_report{%ID%}_.log to create both entities, the bounding boxes and the TSO files.
In a multisite environment, the create_or_update_bbox_and_tso utility creates the TSO files only for datasets that belong to the owning site. It does not create the TSO files for replica datasets.
Run create_or_update_bbox_and_tso -u=Tc-admin-user -p=password -g=group -translation_mode=JTTOBBOX -mode=process -object_list=%TC_TMP_DIR%\createOrUpdateBBoxAndtso_report{%ID%}_.log to create only the bounding box.
Run create_or_update_bbox_and_tso -u=Tc-admin-user -p=password -g=group -translation_mode=JTTOTSO -mode=process -object_list=%TC_TMP_DIR%\createOrUpdateBBoxAndtso_report{%ID%}_.log to create only the TSO files.
Validate the bounding boxes by sending an assembly to Structure Manager, adding the Bounding Boxes column, and then expanding the assembly to a level that has geometry.
The column will be populated with the bounding box information.
Source: https://docs.sw.siemens.com/en-US/doc/282219420/PL20251212545240207.plm00301/xid597882 · retrieved 2026-07-11