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Adding items to the Structure Markup list
The structure identifies those child parts and documents that are required to produce the parent part.
The parent part may be constructed from physical components and subassemblies, and may reference documents for fabrication, assembly or inspection. These are often known as parent-child (also indented, hierarchical, or structured) relationships.
Relationships must be a strict hierarchy; lower-level items must never cross-reference higher-level items. A higher item that appears on the structure of a lower item, which in turn references the higher item, creates an infinite loop in multi-level reports/exports.
The Structure tab will be visible only if the Part Types collection member has at least one of its Markup will accept documents or Markup will accept parts checkboxes marked.
While the parent part revision remains pending, all of your work is managed on the Markup list. After the parent part record has been released using an implementing change form (such as an Engineering Change Notice), your child items will appear on the parent part's Current list.
- To add a child item onto a pending revision of the parent part's
Markup list:
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Click on the Structure tab and unlock the window.
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Scroll the Markup list, if necessary, to expose an empty area.
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Using the Item Explorer, locate the part or document that you want to add to the parent part.
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Drag the item from the Item Explorer and drop it onto an empty area of the Markup list. The icon in the Add/Remove column is
and the
child item is assigned a new structure find-item number. The find-item
value for a part is always 1 or greater, and the find-item value for a
document is always 0.If you change your mind, you can remove the added item: select the dropped item, and press the Delete key or select the context menu command .
- Modify the attributes on the Markup row as appropriate.
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- To modify a previously-released child item is quite similar: Drag
an item from the Item Explorer and drop it onto an existing child item, and
then edit the duplicate row's data fields. For example, suppose that you want
to modify the notes of a child part: you locate the current item, drop it onto
the row to be changed, and then modify the inserted part's
Notes field. When dropped directly onto a previously-released
item (as indicated by a "keep" icon
), the added
item is treated as a replacement for the released item. A new row (blue "add
on" icon ) is
created and the find-item number, quantity, units, reference designators
and notes are all copied to the added item. The old item (red "take off" icon
) is marked
for removal from the parent structure.
If you change your mind, you can undo your item replacement: select the dropped item, and press the Delete key or select the context menu command .
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To remove an existing child item (one that was added and released on a previous revision of the parent part) from the Markup list: Select the item, and press the keyboard Delete key, or select the context menu command . The child item isn't actually deleted; instead, the "keep" icon
in the
Add/Remove column becomes a red "take off" icon
, signaling
that the item will be removed from the structure when the parent part is released
on a change form.If you change your mind, you can restore a child item that's flagged for being taken off the structure: select from the context menu.
- To import a parts list from a CAD file: See the help topic How to work with parts > Importing a CAD BOM
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