Creating Continuous Manufactured Items

You can create and manage Continuous Manufactured Material and Continuous Provided Material items that have quantities such as length, mass, area, and volume.

  1. Right-click the PPR Context and select Insert Item > Manufactured Material.
    A root Manufactured Material is created.
  2. Right-click the Manufactured Material and select Insert Predecessor > Continuous Manufactured Material > Mass.
  3. Right-click the Manufactured Material and select Insert Predecessor > Continuous Provided Material > Volume.
    The items are created with the default values for the mass and volume quantities.
  4. Use the context menu of the Continuous Manufactured Material item to create two more Continuous Provided Material items with mass quantities.
    The items are created with the default values for the mass quantities.
  5. Right-click one of the continuous items and select Quantity.
    The Set quantity dialog box appears.
  6. Enter the required quantity value and click OK.

    The quantity is updated.

  7. Modify the quantities of the other continuous items in the same way.