About Links and Relations

Links and Relations definitions.

• A relation defines the set of links between PLM components, and can be oriented or not.
• A link is defined by the PLM component elements involved in the link and its type.

To manage links and relations, several ways exist.

• From the Edit> Links and Relations... menu.
• From the Impact .

Important: Each time you are running the command, the East Compass is automatically activated in order to give you quick status about the update and the relational design.

The Edit Links & Relations dialog box allows you to select an element from the list and see it in the Specification Tree and Geometry Window, and reciprocally

Important: This behavior is only available for relation in Edit Links & Relations dialog box, not for links.

Contextual relation between two components can be rerouted when one of two component is moved using drag and drop in the Specification Tree.

Rules for reroute are the followings:

• We named context the component where a relation between two components has been created.
• When a component in minimal context (the relation and the two components belong to the same parent component) is moved, this one represents the new relation context. The process always try to create the minimal context as possible.
• When a component not in minimal context is moved, either the relation remains out of context or the relation is broken.
• Broken relation in context will remain broken.