About Product Filtering and Merging

This section explains how Product Filtering and Merging works.

This page discusses:

See Also
Filtering and Merging a Product

Standard Behavior

Some data are transferred, other are removed.

Shown geometry and component, Representation graphic attributes, Axis system, Naming always kept
3D Working support based on the main planes and working support masksnot transferred
For representations:
Colors on subelements optional
Annotations optional
Materialoptional
For sketches:
  • Specification of sketches
optional

An option is available to merge the bodies of each representation into one body.

Important: Any data other than the ones described above are removed in the newly created Products and sub-products (For example, annotations, spot weldings on the product structure are not kept).

For the Product Structure

The product structure is filtered as explained below.

This is an illustration of how Product Filtering & Merging works:

  • You can select any node in the original product structure. Only this node and the elements it contains is filtered, enabling you to create a product with a representation from only a portion of your original product. Its default name is defined by the About Identifications in Engineering IP Control.
    Important: This product with a representation can be a 3D Part or a product with a representation, shareable or not.
  • For each body containing shown geometries under the node you have selected, a body is created in the representation of the resulting product. Its name is the full path of the instance in the original product.
  • The geometries found are transferred as solids, surfaces, or wireframes and placed in the corresponding bodies in the resulting product.
  • The solids are created with the graphic properties (color, line type, line thickness, transparency) of their original body, the surfaces, and wireframes are created with the graphic properties of their original feature. If a graphic property is overloaded with that of an instance, this overloaded property applies to all the elements (solid or surface) of that instance.
  • All positions of the geometries are kept in the resulting product. The origin of the resulting product is created relatively to the higher root product currently open (which is not necessarily the node you have selected.
  • The reference planes are always hidden.
Tips:
  • The In Work Object in the result product is always the PartBody.
  • CGR are ignored.
  • V4 representations are migrated to representations.

Hybrid Design

An option in the 3D Shape Infrastructure Preferences enables hybrid design inside part bodies and bodies.

Engineering IP Control does not take the status of this option into account, except for the empty PartBody created by default: The structure is always copied with the same types, without transformation nor reordering.

When the Merge body check box is selected:

  • All the solids found in all the bodies of each representation are merged in one body.
  • For surface elements, the ordered geometrical sets and hybrid bodies are merged into one hybrid body, whereas the geometrical sets are merged in another body.

More Information

Product Filtering and Merging complies with the following rules.

  • The In Work Object in the result product is always the PartBody.
  • Filtering applies only to the contents of Bodies, Geometrical Sets or Ordered Geometrical Sets.
  • Only visible geometries are transferred, and no empty body, apart from the main PartBody, is created in the resulting product.
  • Elements other than the geometry, the axis system or the colors and attributes on subelements are never transferred. Masks and 3D working support are not transferred.
  • Regarding V4 data:
    • V4 data are processed according to the standard V4 Integration.
    • However changes of the Show/NoShow status or of the colors and graphic attributes made since their import are not taken into account, for example if you have sent a V4 element to the NoShow in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, it is transferred since it is its V4 status that is taken into account. To make those changes effective, you need to make those changes in a V4 session, save the data in V4 and reimport them to 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
    • For V4 models, all wireframe features are created in a single specific Geometrical Set named Wireframe.

Note: The option Checking Operation When Renaming: Under the same tree node and In main object in Me > Preferences > Infrastructure > 3D Shape Infrastructure > Display are inefficient in Engineering IP Control. Therefore be aware that you can find several elements with the same name under one node.