Structure Editor overview
Document relationship management is a complex information management problem facing businesses and industries. As more information is being shared and reused between documents, tracking revisions of documents and the links they contain becomes increasingly difficult.
Copying or making a new revision of an existing object while maintaining the original version is a part of the life cycle of every document. When you select an object for copying or revising, Structure Editor displays a hierarchy of the related structures that may or may not need to be acted upon. Structure Editor lets you do such tasks as:
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Copy QY CAD assembly structures to new documents stored in new Teamcenter items.
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Revise partial or whole assembly structures.
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Update or maintain references in the document hierarchy.
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Show Teamcenter properties.
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Preview an assembly.
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Print the assembly structure.
Copying and revising managed assemblies
When you add an assembly to Teamcenter, it becomes a managed document. The Structure Editor allows you to copy or revise managed assembly structures. You can open a single document for copying or revising. Since the original document does not change during either of these operations, it is not checked out of the database.
When you open an existing assembly in Structure Editor, the structure of the existing assembly is placed in the upper-left and upper-right panes of the Structure Editor window. The initial display of the structure shows only the first-level files. You can expand the levels individually or expand them all. Applying an action to one occurrence of a file within a structure applies the action to all occurrences of the file throughout the structure, even if they are not expanded.
You cannot process actions in Structure Editor while working in QY CAD. You should close QY CAD before starting Structure Editor.
Getting started
Structure Editor can be started by choosing Start→UDS QY CAD 2021→Choose PDM Integration→Structure Editor.
The start-up screen provides a product description, commands to sign in, or open an existing document, and a toolbar with access to help. You can access a list of recently used documents from the File menu.
For an introduction to Structure Editor functionality, start with the topic, The application interface.
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