Conformance to Requirements
Conformance to Requirements During the life cycle of a given PartVersion manifold situations are existing, where the conformance of that PartVersion to a set of requirements must …
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Part Substitutions
Part Substitutions A PartSubstitutionSpecification defines a set of PartVersions that can be used alternatively, due to an incomplete specification for the 150% product …
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Coordinate Systems of Components
Coordinate Systems of Components A LocalGeometrySpecification defines a mapping between the entities of the VEC and the 3D model of a component. The 'Local' in the name refers to …
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Placeable Elements
Placeable Elements In a wiring harness many components can be placed directly onto the topology (e.g. connectors, fixings). To specify the aspect of placeability the VEC defines a …
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Supplementary Parts
Supplementary Parts With the PartRelations other PartVersions (those) can be defined as supplementary parts for the PartVersions that are described by the containing …
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General Technical Part
General Technical Part The class GeneralTechnicalPartSpecification is intended to aggregate common technical attributes that are relevant for most kinds of parts (e.g. …
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Description of Parts
Description of Parts In traditional data formats the diverse types of parts (e.g. connector housing, terminal, wire) are differentiated with individual subclasses for each type …
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General Structure of VEC Files & Documents
The VEC has two major key concepts: PartVersion and DocumentVersion. Both are ItemVersions and both are used to reference / identify a piece of relevant information in a PDM …
