Attachments and Attachment Ports

An attachment is a connection that links two attachment ports in order to position together two resource/product instances in a nearest common parent resource/product reference context . The attachment enables the product/resource instances to move together.

Important: Products participating in an attachment must be children of a resource.

An attachment port, which can be typed as Mount or Base, allows identifying a published Part Axis System as a male or female handle of a Product for a future attachment.

An attachment port is an extended publication PLM component. It is persisted on a Product reference in order to publish a Part Axis System out of a 3D Shape representation.

An attachment port can be typed as Mount or Base. This type allows identifying the published Part Axis System as a male or female handle of a Product for future attachment.

The attachment connects two products/resources pointed as Master and Slave. Attachment coincidence therefore occurs by applying the required transformation to the Slave product/resource instance with respect to a fixed Master resource/product.

This orientation is defined according to the typing of the attachment ports:

• Only Mount attachment ports are considered for a product/resource selected as Master.
• Only Base attachment ports are considered for a product/resource selected as Slave.

The positioning of resource/product instances is done by the coincidence of Part Axis Systems published by the two pointed attachment ports.

Note: An attachment port must have a linked axis system associated with the owner product/resource.