Associating CAD Documents to Specifications
CAD document information can be shared with suppliers through a product specification. The product specification contains the configuration data for a particular version of a product that a supplier needs to know. Before CAD documents can be associated to a product specification, they must be associated to a product.
When CAD data is associated to a product’s specifications, a designer can specify the product variations (such as color, size, and destination) for which the CAD data is applicable. For example, this allows a designer to create one CAD model but specify that it can be used for all color variations of a given product.
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The CAD Documents section of the specification details page only appears if your system administrator has set the property to enable this tab.
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Associating a CAD Document to a Product Specification
To associate one or more CAD documents to a product specification:
1. Open the specification details page from the product page.
2. Select the Add Existing CAD Documents action.
3. Select the CAD documents that apply for the specification from the list of all CAD documents associated with the product.
a. If you select a single CAD document to associate to the specification, the Update Specification to CAD Document page appears, allowing you to enter information specific to the use of this CAD document for the given specification.
b. If you select multiple CAD documents to associate to the specification, the system refreshes the specification detail page with a complete list of associated CAD documents.
Updating Specification to CAD Document Values
To update PTC FlexPLM attribute data for specification to CAD document links:
1. Open the specification details page and select Update from the Actions menu in the rows of the CAD Documents table.
2. The details page displays the specification name, source name, product name, CAD document name, CAD document number, and CAD document version in the header. Values for Colorway, Size 1, Size 2, and Destination variation attributes can be updated on the details page. If the specification has PTC FlexPLM type attributes configured, these also appear in attribute groups.
3. Save any changes or updates to the values. The system returns you to the specification details page, or the Update Specification to CAD Document page.
Viewing CAD Documents Associated to a Specification
To view CAD documents already associated to a specification:
1. Open the specification details page.
2. Find the CAD Documents table. By default, this table is shown in collapsed view, and can be expanded to see the complete list of associated CAD documents
3. CAD documents associated to the specification appear in the table. From the Actions menu in the table, you can remove the association or view or update the details on the Update Specification to CAD Document link.
4. The CAD document name acts as a hyperlink to view the Structure tab on the CAD Data tab for the product.
