Viewing CAD or Dynamic Document Structures

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On the information page for a CAD or dynamic document that represents a structure, you can select the Structure tab to display a hierarchical table that allows you to see the tree structure of an object and its components without having to open their authoring application.

The Structure tab in the information tab for a CAD document contains tools for displaying and editing structures. When you select the Structure tab, the area below the toolbar is divided into panes. The left pane displays the structure tree, while the right pane contains information organized into tabs. The following table lists these tabs:

Tabs	Description
Attributes	Displays important attribute information about the selected CAD item.
Uses	Displays the parts that are used by the CAD document selected in the structure pane.
Visualization	Displays graphical information for the CAD document.
Model Items	Displays information about model item (body, feature, or drawing block) contained in the CAD document.

In addition to a default view of the structure, the Structure tab allows you to customize your view of the structure and perform certain actions. The following table lists the view controls and actions available in the actions tool bar.

Actions may be unavailable for certain selected objects, depending on their status, or on whether you are viewing the workspace or commonspace version of the information page.

View Control or Action

Description

Editing actions set

Edit

This menu (available only in the workspace version of the information page) offers the following action.

• Edit Attributes—Allows you to edit the attributes of the selected object

Check Out/In actions set (Available in workspace version only)

Check Out

Performs a database checkout on the selected object.

Check In

Performs a database checkin on the selected checked-out object.

Undo Checkout

Undoes the checkout on the selected checked-out object.

Viewing actions set

Show/Hide

Opens the Show/Hide Related Information window, allowing you to select or deselect the types of related objects to be displayed.

In the embedded browser, related part objects display an information page icon for access to the part’s information page, even if the part is not in the workspace.

Views

This menu offers the following options.

• Default—Displays the system default view of the Structure tab

• Manage Structure Views—Opens the Customize View List: Model Structure Report Tree window, allows you to create and save a customized view of the Structure tab. For more information, see Customizing Table Views.

Display

This menu offers the following options.

• Toggle Merge Uses/Separate Uses

—Allows you to select to display all uses links individually, or rolled up to one entry showing total quantity

• Expand All Levels

—Allows you to globally expand the structure to show all children.

• Collapse All Levels

— Hides all children

• 2-Pane Display

• 3-Pane Display

• Refresh

New/Add To actions set (for the workspace version)

Save As

Opens the Workspace Save As page, allowing you to save the current object and its structure as a separate, new object/structure. For more information, see Using Workspace Save As

New/Add To actions set (for the commonspace version)

Add To

This menu offers the following selections.

• Add to Workspace

• Add to Baseline

Save As

Opens the Commonspace Save As page, allowing you to save the current object and its structure as a separate, new object/structure. For more information, see Saving Commonspace Objects As New Objects

New Design Context

(Available in the workspace information page, only; and only available if the preference Workgroup Manager Client > Design In Context > Show New Design Context Action is set to Yes.) Opens the New Design Context window which allows you to create a new design context. For more information, see Creating a New Design Context from a CAD Structure.

New Promotion Request

Presents the New Promotion Request window, allowing you to initiate a change in an object's life cycle state

Filter actions set (Only used in commonspace version. The workspace version uses the workspace configuration.)

(Current filter)

Opens the Filter Properties window, displaying the current dependency processing, including the type and details. For more information, see Viewing a Structure’s Current Filter Properties

(Edit filter)

Opens the Edit Filter window, allowing you to edit the filter applied to the selected structure. For more information, see Editing a Structure Filter

(Saved filters)

Displays the available saved filters and saved filter actions. You can select from the available filters or:

• Select Save to open the Save Filter window, allowing you to name and save the current filter definition. For more information, see Saving a Structure Filter

• Select Manage Filters to open the window, allowing you to select the show or share status of any saved filters.

Tools actions set

Compare to Part Structure

Initiates the Compare CAD Document to Part structure comparison and editing process by opening the CAD Document to Part Browser - Initial Values Selection window for you to specify a CAD structure to compare to its related part structure. For more information, see Comparing CAD Document Structure to Part Structure.

Update

(Available in the workspace information page, only) Opens the Update page. For more information, see Updating Out-of-Date Objects.

Open in > Open in Creo View

(Available in the commonspace information page, only) Opens the dynamic representation of the object in Creo View.

Open in > Open in <CAD Application>

(Available in the workspace only), Opens the object in the respective CAD Application.

Reports actions set

Reports

This menu offers actions to open either a Single Level Report or Multilevel Report.

Export

This menu offers actions to export the structure list in various formats.

Actions available in the contextual (right-click) menu for an object or its components listed on the Structure tab are typically a subset of the actions available in the Actions menu. An important exception occurs only on the Structure tab of a workspace information page. Instead of Open in > Open in Creo View (which is the option available from the commonspace information page), you will see Open Context In > Open in Creo View (if the preference Workgroup Manager Client > Design In Context > Show Open Context in Creo View and CAD Tool Action is set to Yes). This command for a workspace object does two things.

• Creates a design context from the structure (in the background)

• Opensthe dynamic representation of the new design context in Creo View

In the pane to the right of the structure pane, either the Attributes tab or Uses tab can be selected.

When the Attributes tab is selected, the CAD document attributes of the object currently selected in the structure pane are displayed.

When the Uses tab is selected, the components used by the object selected in the structure pane are displayed. Also available on the Uses tab are actions you can perform on one or more (multi-select is available) selected objects in the Uses tab. These actions are listed in the following table.

Action	Description
Save As	If you are viewing a workspace information page, presents the Workspace Save As page. If you are viewing a commonspace information page, presents the Commonspace Save As page.
Update	(Available in the workspace information page, only) Presents the Update page for the selected object. Update is only valid for out-of-date objects.
Check Out	(Available in the workspace information page, only) Presents the Check Out page, if viewing the workspace information page and the object is not already checked out
Check In	(Available in the workspace information page, only)Presents the Check In page (for checked out objects only)
Undo Checkout	(Available in the workspace information page, only)Undoes the checkout of the selected object.
Add to Workpace	(Available in the commonspace information page only) Populates the selected object in the Add to Workspace page.
Edit Attributes	(Available in the workspace information page, only) Presents the Edit Attributes page, with the selected objects from the Uses tab as initially selected. You may need to specify a table view to see the attributes you want to edit.
Manage Structure Views	Presents the Customize View List: MSR Uses Table interface (MSR refers to Model Structure Report), allowing you to select or create a view for the Uses tab table.

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