Creating product structure

You create a product structure that represents the design and configuration of your product. In Structure Manager, you create a product structure, sometimes called a bill of materials (BOM). Teamcenter allows you to view an indented listing of the assemblies and piece parts that comprise the product structure; the indenting allows you to interpret the relationship between the assemblies and piece parts. An assembly has structure of its own; a piece part has no structure. In My Teamcenter, you can attach CAD files, specification documents or other information to the top-level assembly (the product itself), or to any of the assemblies or piece parts. You can also attach item elements (sometimes called general design elements or GDEs) to items in the product structure. They represent features that are not parts of the physical structure but are associated with it or implemented by it, for example, weld points or ports for connectors. They are stored as occurrence relations. You can build, view, and manipulate the product structure in Teamcenter, or you can import it from an MCAD system such as NX. You can include 3D visualization data as Direct Model dataset objects within an item revision. Users can then view these images in the embedded viewer in Structure Manager.