Adding a Material Quantity to a Product Structure

Materials are products such as glue or oil that the design of a product structure requires. You can add a material and its quantity to a structure. It appears in the list of child products.

Important: Once you specify the dimension for the core material, the dimension cannot be changed.

Required Responsibilities:

  • Baseline: Leader, Author, Contributor, Reader
  • App-specific: Product Release Engineer

  1. Open the product to which you want to add the material.
  2. In the toolbar, click Add and select New quantity of material.
  3. Search for and select the material.
  4. Select a dimension of measure (Volume or Mass).
  5. Enter a quantity of the material.
  6. Select the units of measure (such as 'ft3' or 'kg').

Quantity values that you enter convert to the preferred unit of measure. For example, if the preferred unit of measure is kg and you enter 200g, the quantity shows 0.2kg. To change the preferred unit of measure, see User Preferences.