Making where-used searches

Where-used searches allow you to identify all the item revisions that use another item revision of interest. For example, you can search for all assemblies that contain a particular item or item revision. You can do this to assess the impact of engineering changes to the product structure or to check if changes in one assembly affect other assemblies. If you use Teamcenter product master management, the results show all lines of usage that a part references.

Note You can perform where-used searches on configured precise or imprecise structures. Where-used searches do not identify any BOM view revisions (BVRs) where the item or item revision occurs. There are two methods of performing where-used searches. The first method produces a graphical representation of the assembly or assemblies in which the item or item revision is used. The second method uses the Referencers print wizard and produces a report of the where-used results. The results of where-used searches can be viewed in the Referencers pane or Impact Analysis pane. If the ReferencersPane_Shown user preference is set to off, the Referencers pane is hidden.