Browsing product structure

You can create a product structure by importing product data from NX or by building the structure manually.

Before you begin to build the product structure, you must understand how to interpret the product structure display. You should know how to browse the product structure to see the structure of a product, navigate around the structure, and find components in the structure, as described next. To find the top-level assembly or product structure line, you can search in My Teamcenter to find it in the database. You can access the data associated with any point in the structure, for instance, the item revisions and datasets.

Caution Certain other applications including Manufacturing Process Planner and Multi-Structure Manager automatically save structures that you browse in Structure Manager. To avoid inconsistent data, Siemens Digital Industries Software recommends that you close all other applications when you work in Structure Manager.

Note In earlier versions of Teamcenter, unattached BOM lines could be shown in the results of appearance searches. The visibility of unattached lines was determined by the APPR_no_unattached_line preference. From Teamcenter 10 onward, Structure Manager maps all BOM lines in the results to the correct BOM window, and no unattached lines are shown.