Synchronizing Physical Objects with Functional Design Objects

From the Operation section of the action bar, click Synchronization Manager

.

The Synchronization Manager panel appears.

Click Show Preferences

at the upper right of the Synchronization Manager panel and specify the following options:

Synchronize no-limit stiffener: Select this check box to take into account the functional stiffeners created without limits.
- After synchronization, an appropriate limiting object is set to the stiffener.
- If the support of a functional stiffener is a sketch or a curve, after synchronization, a similar shape stiffener is created without setting any limiting object.
Enable information message: Select this check box to enable information messages within the Synchronization Manager panel. Set the interval time the message will be visible for.
Show only different specification: Select this check box to display in the Detail Specification panel only the attributes that have different values in functional and physical objects.

Under Inputs, select the input type as Design Unit or Structure System, and accordingly select the input object from the tree.

You can select multiple input objects.

If you select the input type as Structure System, you can specify a physical product as a destination for aggregating the physical products created for structure systems.

The corresponding functional objects are listed under Elements in a tree structure.

The Physical Object and To Do columns are updated as follows:


Physical Object	To Do	Description
-	Compute	The functional object is new and no physical object exists for it.
Physical_Object_Name	Compute	A physical object exists for the functional object.
Physical_Object_Name	Delete	The functional object was deleted after synchronization. You may delete the corresponding physical object, if required.

Select the required rows and click Compute

.

The Physical Object and To Do columns are updated as follows:


Physical Object		To Do	Description
	-	Synchronize	The functional object is new and no physical object exists for it.
	Physical_Object_Name	-	A physical object exists for the functional object and is up to date.
	Physical_Object_Name	Synchronize	A physical object exists for the functional object, but it is out of date.
	Physical_Object_Name	Synchronize	A physical object exists for the functional object, but it requires rerouting of limits.
-	Out of session	-	A physical object already exists for the functional object, but it is not loaded in the current session. In the Physical Object column, select the Out of session cell, click , and copy the name of the out-of-session physical object to search and aggregate it under the current root product. The reference of such physical object is also listed in the Useless References Manager command.
-	Physical_Object_Name	Delete	A functional object for the physical object no longer exists. You need to delete the physical object. Select the physical object's cell, click , and select Delete . You can manage the reference of the deleted object using the Useless References Manager command.

Select the required rows and click Synchronize

.

Tip: For large structure systems or design units, click Synchronize in Batch

to synchronize using batch process to gain performance advantage.

The synchronization process starts and its progress is displayed in the Monitoring of Synchronization panel.

The Physical Object and To Do columns are updated as follows:


	To Do	Description
Physical_Object_Name	-	The physical object is synchronized with the functional object and is up to date.
Physical_Object_Name	Synchronize	The physical object is synchronized with the functional object, but it is out of date. Click Detail Specification for the details and synchronize again if required.
Physical_Object_Name	Synchronize	The physical object is synchronized with the functional object, but it requires rerouting of limits.
Physical_Object_Name	Check Report	The physical object is synchronized with the functional object, but there are update errors in the physical object. Check the report for details.

Note: You can perform the following operations in the Synchronization Manager panel:

Select a functional object or a physical object in the respective column, to highlight it in the 3D area and in the tree.
Select a functional object or a physical object and click to use the following contextual commands: Center Tree, Hide/Show, and Reframe On.

In the Monitoring of Synchronization panel, click Open the HTML report

to check the synchronization report.

Optional: Select the required row and click Detail Specification

to check the synchronization details.

The Detail Specification panel displays the status of various synchronized attributes between functional and physical objects.


Status	Description
	The values of the attribute are similar.
	The value of the attribute is modified in Structure Functional Design.
	The limits of the physical object (panel, plate, parametric plate, or profile) are modified after synchronization.

You can choose to update or to keep the current values in the To Do column.

Close the Synchronization Manager panel.

Notes:

A separate physical product is created for each selected structure system. The physical objects are created under this product. The name of the product is the same as that of the structure system.
The synchronization with a structure system works with an engineering connection between the structure system and its corresponding physical product to aggregate result objects. And only the result objects under the physical product are taken into account for further actions.
The physical product for a structure system is created with an instance of the space reference system. The instance is inserted in the same context as that of the structure system's project data.
In case of multiple instances of a structure system, the corresponding physical product instances are created. These product instances are created with occurrences of physical objects.
For synchronization, you need to select a non-positioned instance of the structure system along with the positioned ones. In other words, you cannot synchronize only the positioned instances of a structure system.
A new product will be created for the panel after synchronization, if you have deleted all the Structure Design objects available under the existing product of the panel.
If you modify the design unit volume after synchronization, you need to re-synchronize the physical objects. If the modified volume includes new functional objects, new physical objects are created. However, if the modified volume excludes any functional object, you need to delete its corresponding physical object in Structure Design manually.
If a functional design object is created using a Generative Shape Design object as input, the Generative Shape Design object is newly copied to the physical object every time the functional object is synchronized.