Associating CAD Documents to Products
To communicate precise engineering design details through CAD documents, PTC FlexPLM users can associate one or more CAD documents to existing PTC FlexPLM products while defining and describing the product.
Any number of CAD models can be associated to a product and its specifications. Users accessing CAD data for a given product can view the models and all of their child CAD parts. Users without access to the native CAD authoring tool can still see generic viewables of the CAD data as long as viewable generation is installed and enabled in Windchill.
Associating a CAD Document to a Product
CAD documents can be associated to a product in two ways, from the CAD Data tab in the product specification page, or from the CAD Data link in the Product tab on the side navigation bar.
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The CAD Data tab is not visible to you if your system administrator has not enabled the property.
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To associate a CAD document to a product:
1. Open the CAD Data tab.
2. Use the search function to locate the CAD documents that describe the product based on name and number attributes. You can search for drawings in any product or library that you have access to.
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Your system administrator can constrain the type and subtypes of CAD documents and CAD attributes that are available for use as search criteria based on your PTC FlexPLM system.
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3. After submitting your search criteria, you can select one or more CAD documents from the search results to associate with the product.
4. Associating the CAD documents to the product results in a new iteration of the product. The associated CAD documents follow this product if it is carried over or moved. If the product is deleted, the association is also deleted.
Viewing Associated CAD Document Details
An Associated CAD tab is available on the CAD Data tab on the product specification page. Selecting that tab displays a table of CAD documents associated to the product. This table can be sorted by document name, number, or version. By default, it is sorted by document name.
Disassociating a CAD Document from a Product
If you need to remove a CAD document from a product:
1. Open the product specification page and select the Associated CAD tab.
2. Select the CAD document you want to remove from the product, and select Remove from the Action menu.
3. After the CAD document is removed, the table refreshes and the product is iterated, so the previous version retains the association, but the new version does not.
