Teamcenter Terminology

Overview


The following Teamcenter terms are used throughout the description of NX Manager mode.

Note:

Class and function names must not be greater than 32 characters long since Teamcenter does not allow for creation of Item names greater than 32 characters.

Teamcenter Terminology

Item

Items are the fundamental objects used to manage information in Teamcenter. Typical use of items are Parts and documents. The NX Part is stored as an item in Teamcenter.

ItemRev

Item Revisions are used to reflect modifications to items.

Dataset

Datasets are used to manage data files created by other software applications. It contains text files, Part files, and images. The DFA file is stored as a text file.

Relations

Relations describe how two objects are related to each other.

Relation Type

This describes the type of relation between two objects.

ItemREV Master Form

This is to store customer defined attributes.

Named Reference

In Teamcenter, datasets often manage several different operating system file types. These file types are called named reference of that dataset. These named Referenes are text files, images, and part files.