Creating and Accessing Specialized Pathway and Segment Types

When you create a pathway, you can use your own user-defined special types of pathway and segment. While you are first creating a pathway, you can also modify its settings.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Creating a Pathway
Options for Creating a Pathway

Creating Specialized Pathways and Segments

When you create a pathway, you have the option of using your own user-defined special types of pathway and segment. This section describes how to create these special types of pathway and segment.

There are two types of specialized pathway and segment; primary and secondary. Each of these types can have its own set of attributes and attribute values (for example, attribute=mass, attribute value=2kg).

You can create as many specialized pathway and segment types as you want, however when you create a pathway using the standard Systems 3D Allocation user interface you can apply only one combination of pathway type and segment type at a time to a pathway.

For full instructions on the use of the apps in this section, see the Feature Specialization and Data Setup User's Guides.

  1. From the Compass, click 3D Modeling Apps and select Systems 3D Allocation.
  2. From the Compass, click Social and Collaborative Apps and select Types Customization.
  3. Enter a Name for the component in the dialog box and then click Finish.
  4. Click Create Technological Type and in the Create Type dialog box:
    1. In Father type, click ... to open the Types browser dialog box and select PathwaySegment_PrimaryType, PathwaySegment_SecondaryType, Pathway_PrimaryType or Pathway_SecondaryType and then click OK.

      (Enter Pathway in the filter box to find these types quickly).

    2. Enter a Type name in the Create Type dialog box and then click OK.
    The new technological type is added to the tree under List of Types.

  5. In the tree, select the type you just created, click Add Attribute and in the Create or modify attribute dialog box:
    1. Enter values for Name, Parameter Type and Attribute Value.
    2. Click OK.
  6. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for as many pathway and segment types as required.
    Note: To create pathway and segment types which inherit attributes from a father type, select the father type in the tree in the List of Types before you click Create Technological Type .
  7. Click Share > Save > Save with Options to save the changes to the PLM database.
  8. From the Compass, click Social and Collaborative Apps and select Data Setup.
  9. In the Setup Data Tables tab:
    1. Right-click Layout For Systems.
    2. Select Create a new Resource Table and click Finish in the dialog box.
    The Layout For Systems : Customized OR Extended feature Resources dialog box appears.
  10. In the Application Resource Table area of the dialog box, double-click <Unset> in the Customized Pathway opening item.
    The PLM search dialog box appears.
  11. Search for and select the component name you created in step 2, click OK and then in the Layout For Systems : Customized OR Extended feature Resources dialog box click OK.
    The new resource table is added to the Setup Data Tables tab under Layout For Systems.
  12. Drag the new resource table to one of the Project bindings (for example, Standard) on the left side of the display.
    The resource is added to the project list.
  13. Click Share > Save > Save with Options to save the changes to the PLM database.

Your specialized pathways and segments are now created and accessible when you create a pathway - see example below.

Accessing your Specialized Pathways and Segments

While you are first creating a pathway, you can modify its settings.

  1. In the context toolbar, click Pathway Options .
    The Pathway Options dialog box appears.
  2. In the Pathway Options dialog box, click Pathway Type Browser or Segment Type Browser.
  3. Select the specialized pathway or segment type you have created.

The pathway is created in the tree. It includes your specialized pathway or segment type with any variables you added to the type.