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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Lifecycle Information
Lifecycle Information An ItemVersion can carry information about the creation of the item. This means the creating timestamp and an optionally information regarding the creator or …
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Usage Constraints
Usage Constraints A UsageConstraintSpecification is intended to describe the allowed usage of the constrainedParts. A UsageConstraintSpecification is a container for various …
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Parts and Documents
Parts and Documents DocumentVersion and PartVersion are representing one of the most fundamental key concepts of the VEC. They are the only classes in the VEC model that are …
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Composite Parts
Before reading these implementation guidelines, it is highly recommended to read the “Composite Part Descriptions” section and its subsections in the VEC Online Model Description …
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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 …
PartVersion
The PartVersion is one of the two anchors for PDM information in the VEC. All technical information about a PartVersion is contained in one or more documents. These describing …
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Instantiation of Components
Instantiation of Components It is a quite common pattern for complex product descriptions, to differentiate between types and their instances. A type is a general description that …
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