About Product Build-Up

Product build-up helps you understand the MBOM, SBOM, and Process structures by using 3D visualization.

Options are available in the Product Build-Up options and 3D View panels to fit your requirements.

The computation takes into account the graphical and flexible properties overloads defined in the context of the root Product.

Product build-up colors allow you to better understand planning information. Design colors refer to the colors defined by a designer.

You can show and define build-up colors using the Product Build-Up options panel.

When you select Show Build-Up Colors ON , the objects are displayed according to the defined build-up colors.

When you select the color button in the Colors and Transparency options section of the panel, three tabs allow you to define build-up colors:

• Color Wheel: you can select a color in the wheel.
• Color Mosaic: you can select a color in the mosaic.
• Sliders: you can select a color model and use the sliders to define a build-up color.

You can display objects according to design colors using the Product Build-Up options panel.

When you select Show Build-up Colors OFF , the objects are displayed according to the design colors.

Added parts refer to items implemented by an operation.

You can reframe the 3D viewer on added parts using the commands of the 3D View panel.

The working context refers to the objects under the same upper system of the selected operation or system.

The working context is displayed in the work area and the 3D View panel. The working context depends on the current selection.

In the Color and Transparency options section of the Product Build-Up options panel, you can change the build-up colors corresponding to the working context:

• Current corresponds to the current selection.
• Previous in System corresponds to the object loaded before the current selection in the same upper system.

You can manage the working context using a CATRule script files.

The manufacturing context refers to the items that are not implemented by any operation.

When you select Show Mfg Context in the Color and Transparency options section of the Product Build-Up options panel, the manufacturing context is displayed in the work area and/or in the 3D View panel.

A product flow creates a link between two systems or operations.

You can change the display of the product build-up according to the product flow. In the Product Build-Up options panel, when you select:

• Restrict to Product Flow ON , the objects are displayed according to the product flow.
• Restrict to Product Flow OFF , the objects are displayed according to the time constraints.

You can simulate an operation or a system according to the product flow in the Product Build-Up Preferences panel.

Define Position is a command that allows you to define the position of an operation with respect to a resource. In this case, a part is positioned according to the resource that realizes the operation.

In the tree, right-click an operation to select this command.

Define position information is taken into account in the product build-up. Using the Product Build-Up options panel, you can edit the color and transparency options to better visualize define position information.

Define position information is based on the latest operation in the working context that has a define position. Only the operations in the product flow and the main assembly line are taken into account no matter the Restrict to Product Flow setting.

Part Position is a command that allows you to define the position of a part with respect to an operation that implements items.

Part position is taken into account when you display the product build-up of a selected operation. Using the Product Build-Up options panel, you can edit the color and transparency options to better visualize part position information.

Part position information is based on the product flow. All the operations in the product flow are taken into account no matter the Restrict to Product Flow setting.

In the case of multiple part positions for the same item, only the last part position is taken into account.

In case of an unloading operation, the part position of the part unloaded by the operation is reset in its design position. When a manufacturing assembly is unloaded by an operation, all the part positions set for this manufacturing assembly are reset.

You can use the Product Build-Up panel or customize the Product Build-Up preferences to simulate a selected system or operation.

You can simulate system by system or operation by operation. In the Product Build-Up options panel:

• When you simulate an operation, Next/Previous Step: Operation is automatically selected.
• When you simulate a system, Next/Previous Step: System is automatically selected.

If you have manually defined an existing product as output for the System or Operation, the product appears in the 3D View panel.

Tip: In Me > Preferences > App Preferences > Simulation > Digital Manufacturing Apps Common Services > Simulation and Planning Apps Common Services > Product Build Up, you can select options to compute according to time or product flow constraints.

You can review and validate a PPR object using markers and creating slides.

You can add markers to the 3D representation of a selected object and take screenshots that are called slides.

You can add different types of markers, such as:

• Label
• Text
• Picture
• Hyperlink, or
• Circle

You can save the created slides on your computer.

You can reset product and review data using the Product Build-Up panel. When you select:

• Reset Product Data ON , the product data of the selected object is reset. The object is displayed according to its initial design.
• Reset Review Data ON , the markers are no longer displayed.