About Smart Discovery for Structures

With the increase in a product's complexity and variability, the amount of data associated with it is huge. With Smart Discovery for Structures, you can index product structures by using the Smart Discovery Indexing functionality so that users can find the correct product definition required to do their work. Indexing structures makes the search faster, and provides advanced structure filtering and configuration capabilities.

Example

To fix a design issue, an engineer wants to work with the engine assembly of a car. When the car structure is indexed, the engineer can search within the structure to find the engine assembly without the need to expand the entire structure. The engineer can further filter the search result to locate all elements that are at a proximity of 10 mm from the engine block.

Users can save an indexed structure within a session, which retains the filters and configurations applied on it. You can configure a session as per your site requirements. For example, you can choose to load a session with static data instead of the latest data or you can restrict users from overwriting a session.

A session can be opened in different applications such as NX, CATIA, and Lifecycle Visualization when these are integrated with Teamcenter. Additionally, the integration with Product Configurator allows users to configure a structure on which variability is set by using Product Configurator variants in case they do not wish to use the classic variants for configuring the structure. Ensure that you have set up these applications.

Where do I go from here?

Business User

See Structure Management on Active Workspace ─ Usage. With Smart Discovery for Structures, you can filter structures. You can also apply some additional configurations to structures.

Administrator

• I am new to Smart Discovery Indexing: Smart Discovery Indexing is the new method to index structures. Cacheless search and Active Content Structure Indexing are the older methods.
• How do I index structures by using Smart Discovery Indexing? Look at the Smart Discovery Indexing process flow.
• I am facing some issues while setting up Smart Discovery Indexing: refer to how to troubleshoot the Smart Discovery Indexing issues.
• How do I know that I have set up Smart Discovery Indexing correctly? You can perform certain verification steps to ensure that you have set up Smart Discovery Indexing correctly.
• Where can I get a list of preferences that I need to set for Smart Discovery for Structures? There are several sources from which you can retrieve a list of preferences. You can view the list in Administration data report, Teamcenter rich client, Active Workspace, and raw XML file.