iAssemblies

An iAssembly is a collection of various members and individual parts.

For example, in the above figure, testiassembly.iam is the factory and the entities under Table are the members.

Saving a factory to the PLM Server

When you save a factory to the PLM Server, a document is created only for the factory and not for the members. Example when you save the testiassembly.iam factory to the PLM Server, the files are displayed as follows:

Documents are created only for the testiassembly.iam factory along with its neutral files; however, documents are not created for the members.

Saving a member to the PLM Server

When you save a member to the PLM Server, documents are created for the member and also for the factory. Example when you save the testiassembly-01.iam member to the PLM Server, the documents are displayed as follows:

Documents are created for the testiassembly.iam and testiassembly-01.iam factory along with the corresponding neutral files.

Note: 
  • If the members of the factory contain the child documents, the links are retained when you save the factory to the PLM Server.
  • You cannot save a factory, that contains a member file only on the PLM server and not on the local machine; the following error message is displayed.