Add Item Data to a Profile, Component or Local Part

General

  • This instruction applies when the Vertex G4 is used without the Vertex Flow.
    • Vertex Flow is a product data management system based on the items and product structures stored in Flow.
    • If the company has a production control system that has a comprehensive set of raw material and component items used by the company and also controls the manufacture and storage of its own products (parts and assemblies) using the items, we recommend connecting the production control system to Vertex Flow, which is then also used store Vertex G4 models.
      • In the past, Vertex G4 has also been connected directly to several production control systems.
  • You can connect an item in the item database (d_COMPONENTS) to a profile, component or local part.
    • In practice, this requires that Vertex's item database contains the raw material items used by the company. In other words, there is a programmed connection between the Vertex G4 and the production control system.
    • Alternatively, items can be added to Vertex's item database by entering the item data, but this is a laborious and error-prone method.
    • One way to edit Vertex's item database is to use Excel, where the items are exported and the content is edited and supplemented, and then Excel is used to generate the item database (d_COMPONENTS) again, but even this method is laborious and requires that no one completes the item database when it is being edited in Excel.

Using own item data enables companies to add their own items to document data.

The objective is to manage the item data so that it is up-to-date, and help the user to select components and features for which the company already has an item.

You can add your own item data as follows:

  • To a library component of an assembly.
  • To an assembly feature - Profile part or weld feature.
  • To a local part of an assembly.
  • To the basic feature of a part - Basic geometry of a part (blank).

If item data is not separately defined when the part is added, the parts list of the assembly will show the table ID of the dimension table as the part data.

Item data is defined in one of the following ways:

  • Enter the item data used in the parts list manually.
  • Retrieve the own item data linked to this part from the item database.
  • Create a new item to match the part in question.