Working with occurrences

Teamcenter allows you to work with occurrences and absolute occurrences, according to your product structure needs. An occurrence consists of one component in an assembly including its relative position with respect to its parent assembly. Occurrence types are representations of the PSOccurrence business object. Occurrences may be suppressed in a CAD tool. If an occurrence is suppressed, the CAD tool behaves as though the occurrence does not exist. The occurrence is not displayed in the CAD system or the Structure Manager viewer. Positioning or mating constraints related to a suppressed occurrence are ignored in geometric solves. You can determine if an occurrence is suppressed by checking the following properties: bl_is_occ_suppressed Any line that has this flag set to true is hidden unless you choose the Show Suppressed Occurrences command. This flag captures occurrence suppression settings from the CAD tool, if you import a CAD structure. You can override this flag in the context of another line for a specific arrangement. bl_is_suppressed This read-only, runtime property indicates if a line is suppressed. A line is considered suppressed if the variant state is suppressed, the line is not configured, or the occurrence is explicitly suppressed by setting the bl_occ_is_suppressed property. If any of these conditions is true, the bl_is_suppressed property is true, otherwise it is false. The value of the bl_is_suppressed property is not affected by the Show Suppressed Occurrences or Show Unconfigured commands.