Using smart baselines

The standard baseline process may be time-consuming and use significant disk space as it may create many new revisions and (consequently) copies of all the associated data and CAD designs. To avoid this, you can create a smart baseline, reusing a baseline revision whose work in progress revision is unmodified since its last baseline was created. You can only create smart baselines of assemblies.

If you try to create a smart baseline of an assembly that has not changed since the previous baseline, a new baseline is not created. No informational message is displayed in Structure Manager to indicate this.

Note

If you make changes to an occurrence property (for example, quantity) the last modified date of the parent BVR changes and Teamcenter therefore considers the parent item revision as a candidate for a new baseline. However, the item revision of the BOM line on which changes were made does not qualify for the new baseline.