Control the display of configured structures

You can control the display of configured structures by showing or hiding occurrences based on effectivity, variants, filtering, and suppression. You can also manage the visibility of connections, joints, and ports within the structure.

When creating variable content or analyzing configured structures, it is important to understand which occurrences will be configured and the ones that will be excluded. When a structure is loaded, only objects that meet the applied effectivity and variant criteria are displayed. However, you can choose to hide or view the occurrences that are not configured as well.

Note

You can do this only when you select an individual structure within the workset or any elements within the same structure. You cannot select multiple structures within the workset or multiple elements across different structures within the workset to hide or view such occurrences.

To perform this step	Do this
To show or hide the occurrences that are excluded by the currently applied effectivity	Click Configuration Settings > Show Excluded by Effectivity.
If you have Partitions for Structure deployed in your Teamcenter setup, and you have applied variability on partitions, to show or hide occurrences and partitions that are excluded by the variant configuration	Click Configuration Settings > Show Excluded by Variants.
To view all the structure elements including the ones that are not displayed due to the applied filters	Click Configuration Settings > Show Excluded by Filtering.
Occurrences in a structure can be hidden by setting the suppress property to True. When a structure is loaded, all occurrences including the suppressed occurrences are not displayed by default. To show or hide the suppressed occurrences	Click Configuration Settings > Show Suppressed.
Hide all secondary components of the structure.	Click Configuration Settings > Show Secondary Components.Note In stead of hiding all secondary component of the structure, if you want to hide the secondary components only within an assembly, right-click the assembly and click Hide Secondary Components .
To show and hide the connections and joints from the structure. For example, welds. The 3D tab still show the 3D view of the connections and joints even if you hide them.This button is available only when the product structure is opened without a session, workset, configuration baseline, saved working context or without a partition scheme.	Click Show Connection Points > Connections and Joints .
To show and hide the ports from the structure. The 3D tab still show the 3D view of the ports even if you hide them.This button is available only when the product structure is opened without a session, workset, configuration baseline, saved working context or without a partition scheme.	Click Show Connection Points > Ports .