3D Product Architect (PAU) gives users access to the Product Structure Editor application. This app, along with its cousin, Product Explorer, allow users to navigate the structure independent of the various CAD tools used to create it. It also allows the user to explore the relationships within the product structure due to the vast amount of data that may be associated to a product throughout its lifecycle. These relationships extend beyond a single discipline such as alternate parts in manufacturing, FEA data from analysis and specifications from engineering.
Beyond these similarities, Product Structure Editor gives the user the ability to create and alter these structures and relationships. Subsequently, the user must be able to revise the structure incrementally to address form, fit and function changes, again, without working within a CAD environment.
Let’s take a look at how this can be accomplished with a quick example in the video below. Here we will look at a scenario where some components have been revised prior to the architect’s activities. In reality, these subsequent operations would occur in the context of a Change Action, and would use the Work Under capability to automatically capture them in the Realized Changes of the specific Change Action.
