About Duplicating Technological Tables, Part Filters, Specifications and Design Entities

Engineering Specification Capture & Reuse greatly facilitates a new specification construction by letting you duplicate engineering specifications and design entities.

A duplication operation uses a previous design as a starting point.

This page discusses:

See Also
Creating Technological Tables
Creating or Editing Part Filters
Creating an Object in the Spreadsheet

Run the Duplicate Command

Engineering Specification Capture & Reuse uses the Duplicate command the same way as other apps do.

To duplicate the different objects in the database:

  1. Query the entites of interest from the database.
  2. From the Compass, click Collaborative Lifecycle.
  3. From the Lifecycle section of the action bar, click Duplicate.

For more information about the command, see the Collaborative Lifecycle User's Guide

Duplicate Specifications

If you want to create a specification that is similar to an existing one, you can start your construction by first creating a copy of the existing specification. Then, you only have to focus on specific items to complete the new specification.

Technological Tables

When duplicating a technological table, the table obtained contains the same values and entities as the original table. You are not requested to complete the cells of the new table.

Important: If the source table relies on other tables, the duplicated table relies on the same tables.

Part Filters

When duplicating a part filter, the filter obtained contains the same entities as the original part filter.

Important: If the source part filter relies on other tables, the duplicated filter relies on the same tables.

Specifications

When duplicating a specification, the new specification obtained references the same technological tables or part filters as the original specification. There is no duplication of referenced entities.

Duplicate Design Entities

Design entities are those that are defined using engineering specifications. For example, a piping line if you are working in a piping context must be designed in a specific way—properties, attributes of different types are identified—so that it meets the company requirements: Piping specifications control the design of a given piping line.

When duplicating a design entitiy using specifications, the duplicated entity uses the same specifications.

The app does not duplicate the specifications.