Associating a design revision to a part revision globally

You fulfill a business part's need for a design solution by associating a part revision to a design revision in My Teamcenter. This association is precise–it is between a revision of a part and a revision of a design. You can associate a part revision with multiple design revisions, in the case of flexible parts such as hoses or pipes. Similarly, a design revision may be valid for several part revisions, for example, for colored parts. The part revision is associated with the design revisions by the Represented By relationship. When you revise a part, you decide whether to carry forward existing associations with design revisions. By default, all associations with Represented By relationships are carried forward. Conversely, when you create a new revision of a design, the existing associations with parts are not carried forward by default. This allows the designer to determine manually when to make the new revision visible to the BOM engineer. To allow automatic propagation of a new design revision to the associated part revision, add a TC_Is_Represented_By,Part Revision,LookLeft string to the AutoCopyRel business object constant on the design revision object with the Business Modeler IDE. However, propagating the design revision to the part revision does not automatically make it the primary revision, that is, the revision displayed in the viewer. The primary revision is controlled by the maturity level, as described later.

Note Automatic propagation assumes an association between a single design and a single part. If a design revision is associated with several revisions of the same part, the latest mature revision is carried forward. If a design revision is associated with revisions of different parts, nothing is propagated.