Changing the Level of Development

You can expose, synchronize and upgrade the view of the component specifications by processing either the feature-based design (user feature) or the product-based design (engineering template or reference) or both objects.

Before you begin:
  • Select Keep link with selected object under External References in Me > Preferences > 3D Shape Infrastructure > General.

    For more information, see 3D Shape Infrastructure.

  • To be exposed in the database, a component specification must be published by its containing representation. This publication must be a specialized publication, such as those created by the Capture Component Specification command. For more information, see Civil Engineering 3D Design: Defining Component Specification Features .
See Also
About Object Types
About Change Level of Development
Diagnosing Computation Incidents
  1. Open a product that contains civil engineering components based on object types.
  2. From the Component section of the action bar, click Change Level of Development .
    The component specifications to process are displayed and organized in columns as follows.
    • Specifications: Lists the features to be exposed.
    • Object Type: Lists the object types associated with the specifications listed in the first column.
    • Exposed feature: Lists the user features that implement the specifications in the representation. If not exposed yet the cell displays <Not exposed>.
    • Exposed product: Lists products that implement the specifications at PLM level. If not exposed yet the cell displays <Not exposed>.

    You can filter each column list using the search and status icon filter.

  3. In the dialog box, filter the type of objects to process:
    • Feature: Only features are updated or exposed.
    • Product: Only products are updated or exposed.
  4. To add or remove a specification from the list of objects, select or clear the specification check box.
    By default, all the check boxes are unchecked. The number of objects to process is indicated next to the Process command.
  5. To filter the number of objects to process, enter a string in the Search field.
  6. To display the selected lines only, click next to the list.
    If you remove the filter, only the previously selected objects are checked.
  7. To filter the list of objects by status, click Filter and choose from the status options.
    Status OptionDescription
    Up-to-date

    The implementing object is synchronized with its specification.

    Free

    No implementing object and the specification is fully defined. You can expose the specification at the requested level (feature or product).

    Not-up-to-date

    The implementing object is not synchronized with its specification.

    • The specification and product are not defined by the same object type.
    • The specification and the user feature do not share the same inputs and or parameters.
    • All specification inputs are not linked to BIM attributes.

    Incomplete

    Some inputs or parameters, or both are missing in the specification. You cannot expose it.

    Update error

    An error occurred either during the instantiation of the implementing object or the update, or both.

    Not applicable

    The specification is not defined by an object type, or its associated object type does not allow the requested exposition.

  8. Optional: Search for a specific item by a portion of its name.
  9. Select the required actions to perform from the following:
    • Expose: To create the feature or product that implements the specifications.
    • Synchronize: To start an update operation of a feature or a product on the objects that implement the specifications.
    • Upgrade: If you have an Object Type with a different revision, you can reference this new revision for your specification. Then you will need to click Synchronize so that the features and PLM objects are updated.
      Notes: You can upgrade the Object Type through other commands such as: To upgrade an object and define it by the latest revision of an Object Type, you can click the Upgrade command in the BIM Attributes panel.
    • Clean: Deletes the exposition feature or the PLM exposition with associated rules, engineering connections and impacts. This command is exclusive, that is if it is checked, the other buttons are unchecked. If Expose, Synchronize or Upgrade are checked, then Clean is unchecked.

      The deleted specifications can be identified through their remaining publications that are displayed in the Specification column. A red symbol replaces the specification icon, and the name of the publication replaces the one of the deleted specification. When you hover over it, there is a tooltip giving you more details about the Object Type.

      The yellow symbol in the Object Type column means that the Object Type assigned to the specification is not the latest possible revision. Using the latest revision is not compulsory; if you want to use it, you need to select Upgrade.

      Note: You can also launch the Upgrade command at the feature level in the Capture Component Specifications window.
  10. Click Process to launch the selected actions.
    The defined scope of specifications displayed in the list are processed.
  11. Optional: Diagnose the incidents by hovering over the icon status, and update the specifications accordingly.