Preliminary
A supported object is created in the Preliminary state. The owner performs whatever CAD work is necessary to generate the new file(s), then checks them into the object and promotes it to the Review state and the following checks are fired:
If these checks pass, the object will be promoted to the next state. Review
The object is reviewed and approved by the Design Reviewer who approves it (or rejects it, if needed). Approved
After the object enters the Approved state, all proposed changes connected to its ECO are checked to see if they are also in the Approved state. If all proposed changes are in the Approved state, the ECO is automatically promoted to the Review state. If any single proposed change connected to the ECO is in a state prior to Approved, the ECO is not promoted to the Review state. Release
As the object enters the Release state, an Action fires that disconnects all Part Specification relationships between the previous revision of this object and its parts, then connects identical Drawing Specification relationships between those same parts and this object. This process has the same effect as if float were defined on the TO end of the Part Specification relationship. In the Release state no disconnections of any relationships are allowed. Connections are however permitted to ECR objects that want to revise the object. | |||||||