Creating a New Part Family

Select Create New from the page Actions menu or toolbar.

If you have the authority to create orphan part families, you can select Actions > Library > Create Class >Create Part Family.

Enter details in these fields:

Field name	Description
Type	Part Family is preselected as the type. You can not change the type unless your company has defined subtypes for Part Family.
Name	Type a name for the part family. Names are case-sensitive and spaces are allowed. You can use complete names rather than contractions, making the terminology in your system easier for people to understand. Name lengths can be a maximum of 127 characters. Leading and trailing spaces are ignored.
Title	The title for the part family.
Description	A brief description of the part family.
Policy	Select a policy from the drop-down list. Your system might only have a single policy available.
Owner	Defaults to your user name. To select another user to be responsible for the part family, click , perform a search, and select a person from the search results list.
Notify	Click , perform a search, and select one or more users to be notified that the part family has been created. The names in the list are the users who have signature authority according to the lifecycle for the newly-created part family. If the selected part family type does not have a signature requirement, then the Notify field is unavailable.
Message	You can edit the default message as needed.
Create In	Shows the name of the part library or part family where you started the create process. If you started the create process using the global Actions menu, you can click to select the general library, part family, or part library where you want to create this part library.
Add To Folders	To add this library to a folder, click and select a folder.

Click Done.