Uses Tab

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Uses Tab

The Uses tab provides information such as Name, Number, Version, End Item, Line Number, Quantity of part usage when you select redline. The Uses tab is always visible. Use this table to perform the following actions:

• View attribute information of child parts in an assembly

• Add existing or new parts as children of the redline or parent part

• Remove child parts from the redline or parent part

• Edit attributes on the usage relationship between a child part in the table and the redline or the parent part selected in the redline structure

• Compare the old and new changes, with the color indicating the type of changes

The following table describes actions and the part attributes shown in the default table view on the Uses tab. For a detailed description of all part attributes, see Part Attributes and Attributes Description:

Action

Icon

Description

Insert Existing

Insert an existing part into the redline structure. For more information, see Inserting an Existing Part.

Insert New

Create and insert one new part into the redline structure. The new part is created as child of the selected redline in the redline structure pane. The new part is added as an affected object on the change task. For more information, see Creating a New Part.

Remove Selected

Remove a part from the structure.

Removing a part from a part structure does not delete it from the database. It only removes the usage relationship to the parent part.

The Uses table shows the removed part as red strikethrough, you cannot perform any actions on the removed part.

Edit Usage Attributes

Edit attributes associated with the relationship between the redline or the parent and child parts in a redline structure. For more information, see Editing Usage Attributes.

Edit Attribute Value

Edit a selected usage link attribute value. For more information, see Editing Attribute Values.

Attributes Description

The following table describes the part attributes shown in the default table view on the Uses tab:

Attribute

Description

Change Indicator

The type of change that occurred when compared with the base object. For more information, see the Change Indicators for Usage Link section in Uses Tab.

Number

The unique numeric identifier for the part. This attribute may be automatically supplied by a standard part number generator when parts are created in your system.

Name

The text identifier for the part. The name does not have to be unique.

Version

The revision and iteration of the part.

End Item

The top assembly part in a product structure that is manufactured and delivered to customers.

Line Number

The position of this part within a manufacturing bill of materials (BOM) in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.

Quantity

The quantity of the part used within the assembly.

Unit

The unit of measurement applied to the quantity of a part used by an assembly.

Trace Code

The code to trace the manufactured copies of a part using a serial or lot number.

Reference Designator

An alphanumeric code to identify individual occurrences of a part used within a product structure.

Find Number

An attribute to cross-reference a part in a product structure with the same part in an assembly drawing.

Build Status

The information of the build rule and the CAD model. The build rules are used by the Windchill build service to create or update CAD and Windchill product structures.

You cannot modify the Build Status; you can only view it in the redline structure browser: the Uses tab and Occurrence tab.

For more information about editing operations available in the Uses tab, see Editing in the Uses Tab.

Change Indicators for Usage Link

The change indicator displays the summary of type of change that occurred when comparing the base object with the redline

The following table explains the icon and description for the Change Indicator column:

Indicator	Icon	Description
Blank		Indicates that the part is not modified.
Edit		Indicates that the part attributes or usage are modified.
Insert New		Indicates that a new part is inserted into the redline structure.
Insert Existing		Indicates that the existing part is inserted into the redline structure.
Replace with Existing		Indicates that the part is replaced with the existing part into the redline structure.
Replace with New		Indicates that the part is replaced with a new part into the redline structure.
Remove		Indicates that the part is removed from the redline structure.