Creating Items with Explicit Attributes

You can create items in the item editor while defining the attributes explicitly in a dialog box for each item.

Before you begin: Open the product content for which you want to create the item. Under Add > Content, make sure that the Set attributes at creation option is selected when you right-click the required item type in the New Content dialog box. Start the Manufactured Item Definition or Fastened Item Definition app: a PPR Context and a root item are created in the item editor.
See Also
About Manufactured Items
Creating an Item from Tile or Tree
Inserting an Existing Item
  1. Right-click a tile on the grid or a node in the tree and click Insert Predecessor in the context menu to choose the required item type.
    A dialog box appears showing the property attributes of the item to be created, such as:
    • Name
    • Estimated time
    • Make or buy decision: Unassigned, Buy, Make
    • Configuration attributes for defining variability space, variants, and evolutions.
  2. Enter any required attribute values and click Finish.
    The predecessor item is created in the item editor with the assigned attribute values.
  3. Continue in the same way to add more items to the manufacturing assembly structure, defining the attitude values for each item.

Note: Sometimes the Set attributes at creation option is not selected when you right-click the required item type in the New dialog box. In this case, the attributes dialog box does not appear when creating an item. The item is created with default values.

item attributes can be modified at any time by right-clicking the tile or tree node and selecting Properties. See Using the Item Editor.