Inserting User-Defined Parts from the Common Library
User-defined parts are stored in the Common Library. For more information, see
Common Library. When you open this special Project in the
Project Properties window, you can use the
User-Defined Categories pane to insert user-defined part categories and subcategories. For more information, see
Project Properties Window.
2. In the Project Properties pane, select Common Library.
The User-Defined Categories pane becomes available. It displays the User-defined categories and User-defined subcategories tables. These tables do not support Undo/Redo capabilities. In between these two tables, Failure rate multiplier specifies the units to use for the failure rates supplied for all user-defined parts.
3. For Failure rate multiplier, specify the failure rate multiplier to use for all user-defined parts. The default is 1000000. However, if user-defined parts are to use some other failure rate multiplier, enter a different value in this field.
4. For each user-defined part to insert, do the following:
a. In the last row in the User-defined categories table, click < Click here to insert a new record > . A new part category named Category is inserted.
b. For Category, enter the name for this category.
c. In the last row in the User-defined subcategories table, click < Click here to insert a new record > . A new part subcategory named Subcategory is inserted.
d. For Subcategory, enter the name for this subcategory.
e. For Failure Rate, enter the failure rate for a part with this category/subcategory combination.
You can repeat step 5.a or step 5.c multiple times to insert multiple categories or subcategories. If a category or subcategory with the default name already exists, then the default name is followed by (x), where (x) is the next available numeric value. To reorder the categories and subcategories in these tables, you can use the standard Windows drag-and-drop technique.