Using Identical Part Management of Profiles

You can use Identical Part Management to generate manufacturing features for the manufactured part (called as Main on this specification) only for a representative stiffener based on Position Number. Other manufactured parts, which have the same position number are sub. Representations (CGR) that are light create from the main manufactured part to sub parts.

  1. Select the Identical Part Management option in Me > Preferences > App Preferences > Simulation > Process Engineering Heavy Industry Structure Fabrication, Structure Features section, Identical Part Management.
    Note: Not selecting, a message appears, The preference is NOT activated.
  2. From the tree, select a manufacturing assembly.
  3. Click Identical Part Management.
    The Identical Part Management panel appears.

    Five columns display in the table:

    • Manufactured Item: the display name of the manufactured part.
    • Stiffener: the display name of the stiffener implemented by the manufactured part.
    • Position Number: the PLM attribute value of stiffener.
    • Relation: Displays either main or sub relationship.
    • Status: Displays either up to date or out of date. Rows out-of-date statuses display as light representations.

    Update enables you to generate light representations for sub manufactured parts. By default this disabled. It enables when selecting a row in the table. Ctrl + A keys enable you to select all rows at once.



    Only manufacturing assembly type is selectable.

  4. Selecting a row, Update enables. The selection for a main manufactured part takes uses the selection of a sub or subs of the main part.



  5. Click Update, sub manufactured parts have light representations and the table and auxiliary viewer are updated.


    When there are some changes on the MfgRep of the main manufactured part, Identical Part Management displays that sub manufactured parts are Out of Date. This allows them to be Up-To-Date for new changes.

  6. Click Show Preferences .
    • By default, this option is OFF. It allows you to delete old light representations from the database persistently when performing an update. References of the resulting products, which aggregate a light representation save during a delete operation. Deleting a reference from the database allows only when there is no more instances of the reference.
    • When the Preferences is ON and Update clicked, a Delete dialog appears and you are asked to delete old light representations from the database persistently. Selecting OK, the message window appears at the upper-right side of the application. The table displays out-of-date sub manufactured parts and you can update them accordingly. The Identical Part Management is automatically closed by this operation.

      When a light representation generates, a unique key generates from the time stamp of the main manufactured part and the light representation persistently stores this information. This information uses this to verify a Manufacturing Representation of the main the manufactured part. This modifies so that Out of Date displays for sub manufactured parts and you can update accordingly.