About incremental changes

Teamcenter supports two methods of controlling changes to product structures, incremental change (described here) and revision configuration. An incremental change collects together a number of structure changes to a component such as addition or removal of components or changes to attachments (data). Effectivity can be applied to incremental changes to configure the associated changes. This method of change control allows several independent structure changes to be made concurrently, including the addition or removal of unrelated components. Those changes can be implemented in any sequence. This method of change control is suitable for large, flat structures without nested subassemblies or components. The revisioning approach is not suitable for this type of structure, as a separate revision is required for every permutation of change.

Caution Siemens Digital Industries Software recommends you do not use the Cancel Checkout command on item revisions that contain changes tracked by incremental change. This action causes permanent loss of incremental changes that are tracking structure edits. You cannot manage changes to substitute parts with incremental changes.