Considerations for Importing Replacements
When you import replacements from Microsoft Excel to Windchill PDMLink, consider the following:
• Imported replacements must reference parts that already exist in Windchill PDMLink. If a part referenced in the replacements does not exist, the import fails.
If you need to import replacements with parts that do not yet exist in Windchill PDMLink, import one spreadsheet that contains both the new parts and the replacements worksheets.
• When defining an alternate, you identify the part that can be used as an alternate. When defining a substitute, you identify the part that is used as the substitute as well as the parent assembly for the substitute part.
• Organization administrators can set the > preference to define additional attributes (quantity, unit of measure, and reference designator) when defining a substitute.
• When the Replace action applied in a BOM worksheet brings in a replacement part that is defined as a substitute of the original part, the substitute is automatically replaced which is consistent with the Replace with Existing action and selecting a substitute. Adding the same substitute will be treated as a modification of an existing substitute.
For more information on the spreadsheet format, see
File Format for Importing Replacements.