About the Assembly Assignment Assistant

The Assembly Assignment Assistant can be used to assign products to items.

The assignment assistant dialog box appears when you select Assembly Assignment Assistant .

The assistant comprises the following main parts: Items, Products, and 3D viewer.

When you select an item in the right-hand and left-hand item lists, all products implemented by this item are displayed in the corresponding 3D viewer. These products are also listed in the Available Products and Assigned Products lists under the 3D viewer.

Selecting Not Assigned in the left-hand item list displays the products that are available for assignment.

When you select an item in the right-hand item list, the list of unassigned products is updated.

A product that is assigned to a predecessor is identified as Output of: <predecessor> in the Products list and is displayed in the 3D viewer. However, it is not available for assignment. Selecting the Output of: line in the list highlights the resulting product in the viewer. Similarly, selecting the product in the viewer highlights the Output of: line in the list.

The 3D viewer offers Zoom, Pan, and Trap Selection capabilities, as well as a menu.

Cross highlighting is available between the 3D viewer and the lists in the assistant.

A menu is available for the left and right product lists. The menu consists of two menu items Center Tree and Reframe On Selection.

Command	Description
Reframe On Selection	Reframes the selected product in the 3D viewer of the appropriate list.
Center Tree	Contains the following submenu items: On Selected Part : Centers the selected part in the tree. On Selected item : Centers the selected item in the tree. Notes: When the selected object in the list is an output of a previous assembly that implements: a single part, On Selected Part centers the selected part in the tree. a single part, On Selected item centers the assembly in the tree. multiple parts, On Selected Part centers the tree with respect to the multiple parts. multiple parts, On Selected item centers the assembly in the tree.

The assignment assistant allows you to assign, unassign, or reassign a product, or a list of products between two items.

This is done using the assignment arrows and as follows:

• Assigning a product from Not Assigned to a destination item creates a Provided Part under the destination item.
• Assigning a product from a Manufacturing Assembly to Not Assigned unassigns this product from the Manufacturing Assembly and deletes the corresponding Provided Part.
• Assigning a product from a source Manufacturing Assembly and a destination Manufacturing Assembly unassigns it from the source and assigns it to the destination.

In the following example, Products P1, P2, and P3 are instantiated under a Root Product:

• Product P1 is implemented by Provided Part P1; Provided Part P1 is instantiated under Manufacturing Assembly 1
• Product P2 is implemented by Provided Part P2; Provided Part P2 is instantiated under Manufacturing Assembly 2

• Product P3 is available for assignment on Manufacturing Assembly 1 or Manufacturing Assembly 2.
• Assigning Product P3 to Manufacturing Assembly 1 creates a Provided Part P3 that is instantiated under Manufacturing Assembly 1.
• Unassigning Product P1 from Manufacturing Assembly 1 deletes Provided Part 1.
• Reassigning Product P1 from Manufacturing Assembly 1 to Manufacturing Assembly 2 deletes Provided Part P1 under Manufacturing Assembly 1 and creates another Provided Part P1 instantiated under Manufacturing Assembly 2.

Under the source products list and the destination products list, there are two fields:

• Available or Assigned: displays the number of available or assigned products under the selected item.
• Selected: displays the number of selected products.