Derived Components and Suppression / Break Link

When you save a derived component in PLM, the integration will automatically save its driver in an identical manner that we do for a parent-child relationship.

The derived components behave as the parent and the driver as the child which implies that saving the derived component will cause a save to the child (if it’s editable). The result of the parent-child link also implies that if you check-in the derived component, it’s driver will also be automatically be checked in (as a result of the Vault Parameters).

To suppress or break the link for any derived component perform the following steps:

  1. Create a derived component based on assembly from the Derived Component Tool.
  2. Right click the assembly and select Break Link With Base Assembly option from the context menu as shown in the picture:

    Note: While executing the "Break Link With Base Assembly”, we do not even create the document with parent child relationship, and the parent child link will be remove once we save/re-save the Derived components. This signifies that in PLM no information about the existence to the link will remain even if it existed before breaking the link and re-saving to PLM.