Filtering and Merging a Product

Product Filtering & Merging filters a product into a new product containing one representation, to protect the intellectual property of the original product. The original product can be a product with a shareable or non-shareable representation, or a 3D Part

  1. Select a product node.
  2. Enter an identification string on the right of the product name.
  3. Click the arrow to expand the dialog box and select required options.
  4. Define the creation mode of the final product.
  5. Optional: Select the Merge body check box.
  6. Optional: Under Keep, select the Colors check box, then the required option.

    Note: Graphic attributes other than color and transparency (line type, thickness, symbol, ...) are copied with their default value regardless of the status of this option.

  7. Optional: Select the Keep annotations check box to transfer 3D Tolerancing & Annotation data (FTA) and 3D Tags from Generative Shape Design found in the shape representation of the product to filter.
    1. Optional: Select the Contains the string check box to restrict the filtering process to 3D Tolerancing & Annotation captures with a name containing a string you provide.
  8. Optional: Select the Material check box to transfer the material information.

    Material applied to faces is not taken into account.

  9. Optional: Under For sketch, select the Specifications of sketches check box.
  10. Optional: Select a Visualization Filtering option.

 

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