Working with Alternate Units

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The Alternate Units tab displays a list of Alternate Units for an object. Alternate units are a way of defining a different unit for an object other than its default unit. For example, for a part that has a default unit of “each”, you can define an alternate unit of “box”, where one box is equal to five parts.

To enable Alternate Units you must first set the Alternate Units Tab Display preference. This preference can be found in the Preference Management Utility, at the Site level, by navigating to PSE/MPMLink specific preferences.

Alternate units can be applied to the following objects:

• Parts

• Process Plans

• Operations

• Sequences

The Alternate Units tab attributes that appear in the table are described below:

Attribute	Description
Unit	The name of the alternate unit being used for the selected object.
Numerator	The original designation for the unit; for example, if a part has a default unit of “each” the numerator could be one.
Denominator	The alternate designation for the unit; for example, if a part has a default unit of “each” the denominator for the alternate box unit could be five. The alternate unit of one box then, would be equivalent to five parts.

Available Actions

The following table explains the actions available from the toolbar on this tab:

Alternate Units Task Tool Bar
Icon	Action	Description
	Add	Opens the New Alternate Unit window where you can create a new alternate unit for the selected object.
	Remove	Removes the alternate unit from the selected object.
	Column Details	Opens the Column Details window, which can be used to configure the columns displayed in the table.