About Product Modeler

The Product modeler provides assembly objects and additional capabilities.

This page discusses:

Product Modeler Capabilities

To handle industrial products, the Product modeler provides the following model and capabilities:

  • An assembled physical model, that is composed of:
    • Parts
    • Their relative location in the assembly
    • The constraints that can be required between some objects.
  • Revision: the different products that can be manufactured, assembled, and sold from a single physical model.
  • Bill of material
  • Position
  • Geometry

The product modeler is compatible with the following modelers:

  • Logical: to support implement links
  • Change: to trace operations (for example, creation and modifications are traced)
  • Polyhedral: to support polyhedral data
  • ENOVIA: Documents (Entity Relation modeler)
  • DELMIA: manufacturing
  • SIMULIA: simulation
  • Configuration: the changes brought to the physical model during its life time and these changes effectivity

The product modeler is extended by applicative modelers. For example:

  • Assembly (engineering connections)
  • Electrical
  • Piping
  • ...

Product Modeler Objects

The Product data model is persisted in the database through objects that are created from the PLM objects. See Basic PLM Objects.

Product Objects Created from Description
Product reference, with two possible types:
  • Product
  • 3D Part
Reference Definition of:
  • an assembly (product)
  • a 3D object (3D Part)

For more information, see Product Reference (Product and 3D Part).
Product representation reference

For example:

  • 3D Shape
  • Drawing
  • Mark-up

 Representation reference Definition requiring an additional data file.

Example:

  • Drawing: a sheet is required
  • Shape: geometry is required
  • Mark-up: slide and annotation are required

For more information, see Product Representation Reference (3D Shape, Drawing, Markup).
Product instance Instance Usage of the definition in the context of an assembly.

For more information, see Product Instance.
Product representation instance Representation instance Usage of the definition in the context of an assembly.

For more information, see Product Representation Instance.
Publication Port Publication making an internal object of a product structure (geometry, parameter, another publication) available to different users.

For more information, see Publications.