Family of Assemblies in Structure Editor

The development of some products requires you to define multiple variations of a single assembly. In QY CAD, these are referred to as Alternate Assemblies that are specified as either:

• Alternate Position Assemblies, where all parts are identical, but some part positions change during the physical operation of the assembly.

• Family of Assemblies (FOA), where most parts are identical, but some parts and subassemblies are different between the individual assemblies.

You create a family of assemblies in QY CAD when you convert a normal assembly document into an alternate assemblies document and then specify it as a family of assemblies. The original assembly document is considered the master and the variations are referred to as the members.

Family of assembly members are uniquely identified in Teamcenter when they are published. Publishing the members creates individual items in Teamcenter that are identified by a unique Item ID, Revision and name. You can choose to select all members or specific members to be published using the steps defined in Publish family of assembly members to Teamcenter.

When family of assemblies are published to Teamcenter in QY CAD and then viewed in Structure Editor, the FOA master is displayed as the top node with its members underneath in the Published Family Members folder.

The green shaded icon in the Bill of Materials column identifies the active FOA member.

Published family members are read-only and cannot be assigned an action. However, they can be impacted when you choose to set the action on the master to Revise or Save As.

Revising the Family of Assemblies Master in Structure Editor

Using Save-As with Family of Assemblies in Structure Editor

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