The 3D Product Architect role enables you to manipulate design structures independently of your CAD system on any device. Through the embedded change management tool, you can track the various changes performed on the product structure. This provides a full tracking on the product changes which helps the change approvers to make better decisions on the change approval.
To enable this, use the “Work Under” option available directly in the widget, where you select the Change Action that tracks and captures these changes.
To use the Change Action, you do not need to be granted a new role. It is already available in the basic role “Collaborative Industry Innovator” which is the pre-requisite role for “3D Product Architect.” All the changes that are performed on the product are captured in the “Realized Changes” of the Change Action.
The following changes that are made within the Product Structure Editor are captured in the “Realized Changes” when the Work Under is activated:
| 1 | Creation of new Products, Parts or Drawings |
| 2 | Insertion of new and existing Products, Parts or Drawings |
| 3 | Replacement of existing Products, Parts or Drawings |
| 4 | Movement of Products, Parts or Drawings (in 3DCompose app) |
| 5 | Revision changes of existing Products, Parts or Drawings |
| 6 | Addition or removal of specifications |
| 7 | Addition or removal of attachments |
| 8 | Lifecycle changes to components within the product structure |
You can also review the current Change Action that is applied on the Engineering Item directly from the tab “Change” in the property panel:
In the video below, we see an evolving design where the architect is making numerous and varied changes under the Work Under capability of a Change Action.
Some further comments about the video...
Objects that are created when you are not working under a Change Action can be enabled for change control. Such an action is done by any user with the Leader role or an equivalent app-specific role, and who also is licensed for Change Manager or Configuration Engineer. Once you enable change control for these objects, they are under unified change control. You can change an object under unified change control by selecting any change action in the In Work state to Work Under. After you make the first change to an object that is under unified change control, all subsequent changes to that object must be made under that same change action. This is true until the change action is completed.
