Searching the data dictionary

In typical automotive and aerospace functional and logical design activities, key building blocks or components of the designs are reused to save time and effort. To facilitate reuse of these building blocks or components in multiple designs across several projects or programs, Teamcenter provides a central organizational repository for them. Designers can easily search for and find components based on criteria and reuse them in their designs. Typically the organizational repository is tightly controlled and the components or blocks in it have gone through a formal, customer specific approval process. Once approved, the blocks or components are labeled as ready to use. This central organizational repository is referred to as a data dictionary. It allows you to organize data by your own criteria with the goal of easy reuse. A data dictionary is modeled in the Classification application as a library. The Classification administrator builds a customer-specific hierarchy under one or more libraries for organizing data, for example, signals and interfaces. Depending on access privileges, you can then: Create, modify, and delete data from the dictionary. Associate a project or program with one or more dictionaries. Typically, the product design data is also associated with the same project or program. Search the dictionary for data meeting specified criteria. Add data from the dictionary to a functional, physical, or logical breakdown. Create signals in structures and associate them with interfaces and connections. You search for objects in the library using the Data Dictionary Search Dialog. This dialog box provides access to the classification hierarchy where you can search for objects to add to the structure you create. The Data Dictionary Search Dialog provides a view to the Classification application.