Set part properties in an assembly

When you select the top-level assembly entry in Assembly PathFinder and then click the Occurrence Properties command, the entire assembly structure is displayed in a bill of materials format. You can use the (+) and (-) symbols to expand and collapse the assembly structure.

When you select one or more parts or subassemblies, the selected occurrences are displayed in a table format that cannot be expanded or collapsed.

From the top-level assembly, you can override system occurrence property values and custom occurrence property values in lower-level, read-only parts and subassemblies. For more information, see Custom occurrence properties in assembly.

Sometimes you want to ensure that a specific custom occurrence property value is shown whenever a certain part is used in an assembly. For example, you always want the part to be painted red. In this case,open the lowest-level assembly that contains the part, and then assign a custom occurrence property Paint=Red to the part in that context. Every time that assembly is used, the predefined paint color for the part is listed in the Occurrence Properties dialog box.

If you need to change the properties of a managed subassembly, you must first check out all subassemblies where the occurrence properties are being modified. Then the documents can be saved and checked back into Teamcenter.