Building and editing product structure

You can create the product structure manually in Teamcenter, you can import it from your CAD system, or you can clone an existing structure to use as the basis of a new structure. When you import a structure, Teamcenter keeps the structure synchronized with any changes to the native CAD design. After you create the structure, you modify it as necessary to reflect any changes to the product design. You check out an item revision to make changes and check it in again when the changes are complete. You may also cancel the checkout of an item revision, even if it is open in a structure editor. This action causes the changes made to the item revision and to its first-level structure to be lost. If the item revision is open in a structure editor window, you must refresh the full window refresh to restore absolute occurrence data for any lines edited in context of the item revision. While working in Structure Manager, follow these recommendations: Certain other applications including Manufacturing Process Planner and Multi-Structure Manager automatically save structures that you edit in Structure Manager. To avoid inconsistent data, Siemens Digital Industries Software recommends that you close all other applications when you work in Structure Manager. 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. If there are expanded structures, do not switch roles without saving and closing the applications. This may result in a slow performance on the expanded structure. This applies to other structure applications also.