Association Type
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Usage Example
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Owner
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Associate a primary CAD document responsible for driving structure creation.
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Contributing Image
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Multi-CAD secondary association, flexible components.
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Image
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Multi-CAD secondary association, flexible components.
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Contributing Content
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Multi-CAD where secondary attributes are critical to the BOM.
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Content
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Inclusion of additional descriptive CAD content, for example, a model's drawing to a part.
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In the preceding table (and in other places where build types are discussed), the word ‘contributing’ refers to the passing of object attributes between a CAD document and its associated part. In other words, in addition to the Owner association type, only the Contributing Image and Contributing Content types enable the passing of attributes.
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Formerly, CAD models representing the different states of the same ‘flexible’ components in a structure (for example, different routings of the same cable, or the various states of a spring) have been allotted separate Uses links in the associated part structure. As of Windchill 10.2 M030, the build process rolls up the various occurrences of such components under a single Uses link in the part structure with the appropriate quantity. So, with the Windchill 10.2 M030 enhancements, the part structure would be: It should be noted that after upgrading to Windchill 10.2 M030, the next time a user builds their associated part structure, the system will modify legacy part structures to use a single usage link. As a result, any information manually added to a part Usage or part Use occurrence may need to be recreated, as the system only preserves one Usage link and its occurrence; but the other Usages and Use occurrences are recreated on the single Usage. |