Manufacturing Features Page under a Model

The Manufacturing View page allows you to manage the manufacturing features and their subfeatures for a model. Subfeatures of manufacturing features can be any feature type (configuration, logical, manufacturing, or none).

To open the Manufacturing Features page for a model, access the Properties page for a model (for details, see Viewing Model Properties). Then from the model Categories menu, click Manufacturing View.

This topic covers the following items:

Related Topics
Running a Search
Manufacturing Features Page under a Product
Manufacturing Features Page under Logical Structures


The Manufacturing View page has two tabs: Candidate Manufacturing Features and Committed Manufacturing Features.

  • The Candidate Manufacturing Features summary presents all manufacturing features that are currently available as candidates at the model level for being committed to product revisions maintained under the model.
  • The Committed Manufacturing Features summary presents all logical features that have already been committed at the model level to the respective product revisions.

Columns

Column Description
Display Name The display name of the manufacturing feature including the revision suffix
Status Section Description
State The current state of the manufacturing feature in its lifecycle
Active EC Yes or No; whether an active engineering change exists on the manufacturing feature
Higher Revision Yes or No; whether a higher revision of the manufacturing feature exists
Basics Section Description
Image The primary image of the manufacturing feature, if one exists
Name The name of the manufacturing feature. This column contains highlighted links. Click on any name in this column to view the Properties page for that item, or click at the end of the row to view the Properties page in a new browser window.

Note: If the Feature Name Display user preference is set to display the manufacturing feature name, this column displays the manufacturing feature name of the manufacturing feature. If the user preference is set to display the marketing name, this column displays the marketing name of the feature. For details, see Setting the Feature Name Display.
Type The type or subtype of the manufacturing feature
Display Text The display text associated with the manufacturing feature
Owner The owner of the manufacturing feature
Design Responsibility The Responsible Design Organization (RDO) for the manufacturing feature
State The current state of the manufacturing feature in its lifecycle
New Window Opens the Properties page for the manufacturing feature in a new window

Actions Menu

Actions Menu Item Description For details, see:
Create Manufacturing Feature Creates a new manufacturing feature that is connected to the context model Creating a Manufacturing Feature
Add Existing Adds one or more existing manufacturing features to the model. The Search page opens, allowing you to search for manufacturing features that are not currently candidates for or committed to the context model. Adding an Existing Logical Feature
Commit Allows you to select candidate manufacturing features and commit them to one or more product revisions that are maintained under the model. A structure browser opens, displaying the product revisions. Committing Manufacturing Features to a Product Revision
Remove Removes the selected manufacturing features from the model. Does not delete them from the database. Removing or Deleting a Logical Feature
Delete Removes selected manufacturing features from the list and deletes them from the database, thereby removing them from any usage contexts. You are prompted to verify the deletion. Removing or Deleting a Logical Feature

Note: The page Actions menu for candidate manufacturing features does not provide Replace or Update options. You can use Remove and Add Existing to perform the same behavior.

Click the Enable Edit button in the page toolbar to work with manufacturing features in edit mode, making modifications as necessary using in-cell editing.

Click Apply to update all modified feature attributes or Cancel to cancel all changes made in the table.

Mass Update

In edit mode, to quickly change the same attribute for many features, you can use the Mass Update drop-down menu.

From the Mass Update menu, select the attribute you want to change.

Type the new value for the attribute in the form.

Click Apply to All or Apply to Selected to update only the checked features.

Filter Button

If the number of manufacturing features and components available is large, you can use the Filter button to filter the displayed items by Name or Limit.

The defaults for both Name and Limit are set to a wildcard (*) so that all items in the structure are retrieved by default. To restrict the search, enter the desired name pattern or limit condition and then expand a given node. Collapsing and re-expanding any node retains the filter criteria. Clicking the Filter button again re-expands the view, but loses any previous expansion criteria.