Product Composition Types

Calling the command:

The product composition type is a file that contains the product composition parameters. The product composition type is a prototype for creating new product compositions in documents.

Product Composition type command is used to create new product compositions types and edit the existing ones.

You can also open the same window for the current product composition using option on the toolbar.

The list of existing product composition types is located in the left part of the window. Tabs with their parameters are located on the right side.

Each product composition type is stored in *.XML file. Settings from such type will be copied to the current document when type is used for creating a new product composition or for an update of product composition. Path folder with the product composition types is set in Set System Options command on the Bill of Materials tab in Product Composition Types field. The folder by default: C:\Program Files\T-FLEX Parametric CAD 17\Program\ProductStructs.

If the user makes changes to the parameters of the product composition or creates a new composition, the folder is automatically moved to "\Users\user_name\AppData\Local\Top Systems\T-FLEX CAD ....\Eng\ProductStructs". All products saved in this folder are prototypes and can be used in any T-FLEX CAD document.

New documents already contain General BOM product composition created on the base of Default product composition.xml file.

When opening files with a specification created before version 14, all the parameters specified in this specification are taken into account as part of the product and stored in the source file in the *.grb format.

The following icons are located at the top of the Product Composition Types window:

This options loads description of the product composition type from the *.XML file.

This option saves description of the product composition type into the XML file.

This option creates a new type based on the “empty type”. Parameters of such a type are not set.

This option deletes the current record from the list of product composition types.

This option copies parameters of the current product composition type.

Creates a new product composition type based on the copied parameters – columns, groupings, sorting, representations, etc.

To rename the product composition type, click on its name and fill in text.

Note that if you create a BOM table based not on the product composition report template but on the legacy mechanism based on the BOM prototype file, the prototype parameters will be used along with the product composition parameters. The prototype parameters can differ from the product composition parameters. In this case, the created BOM may differ from what you see in the Product Composition window, because the prototype parameters like grouping and sorting will be applied to it after the product composition parameters.

 

Right section of the Product Composition Types window contains same tabs as the right section of the Product Composition Parameters window:

•Properties

•Columns

•Sources

•Filters

•Representations

•Sum

•Reports