Cloning a structure

You can clone (duplicate) an existing product structure to create a new structure.

Note The cloning process is intended to support CAD structure duplication and not all data on the structure is cloned. Some exceptions to the cloning process are noted below. You can clone the entire product structure from the top level down or a selected subassembly. It is not necessary to open the CAD tool when creating the new (cloned) assembly. The cloning operation uses Business Modeler IDE deep copy rules to determine how datasets and attachments are copied. It also uses the Business Modeler IDE StructureCloneTransferModes global constant to determine how CAD-specific attachments and relationships are copied. When you open the new (cloned) structure, you can edit or update any of the items, item revisions, datasets, and attachments without affecting the original structure. The cloning process does not support occurrence effectivity and any configuration of the structure with occurrence effectivity does not carry forward to the clone. Likewise, the cloning process does not support variants and any variants on the structure do not carry forward to the clone. The user who performs the cloning action owns the copy. Any elements of the original structure that were referenced, rather than copied, remained owned by their original owner. Access rights and ACL rules on structure lines are not carried forward from the original structure to the new (cloned) structure. If you do not have access rights to a substructure in the original structure, you cannot duplicate that substructure and Teamcenter instead references the existing substructure. If the original structure was shared by Multi-Site Collaboration, the new (cloned) structure does not inherit its permissions. It is a new structure and is therefore owned by the site where it was created. The cloning operation assumes only one BVR type is associated with the item revision that represents the product structure or assembly. If you assigned more than one BVR type to the item revision, the system only processes the first BVR type it obtains from the item revision. It copies any other BVRs, but the children of those BVRs are not duplicated.