representing_alternate_part

Template:— representing_alternate_part_relationship (rep_alt_part_rel)
Capability:representing_parts

Date: 2010/08/26 07:35:18
Revision: 1.1

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This section specifies the template representing_alternate_part_relationship.

NOTE The template has been defined in the context of the capability representing_parts which provides an overall description of the relevant parts of the ISO 10303-239 information model and a description of related templates.

NOTE An explanation of a template and the associated instantiation path is provided in the Template overview section.

Description

This template describes how to represent an alternate part relationship, where any version of the alternate part may be used in place of any version of the base part.

Model diagrams

The EXPRESS-G diagram in Figure 1 shows the templates and EXPRESS entities that are required to represent the template "representing_alternate_part_relationship". The text highlighted in blue shows the template parameters.

Figure 1 — An EXPRESS-G representation of the Information model for representing_alternate_part_relationship

The graphic for the template to be used in other EXPRESS-G diagrams is shown in Figure 2 below.

Figure 2 — The graphical representation of the representing_alternate_part_relationship template

Input parameters

The following input parameters are defined for this template:

base_part (Type= 'ENTITY (Part)' )

The Part for which an alternate is specified.

alternate_part (Type= 'ENTITY (Part)' )

The Part that may replace in all its usages, the base part.

Reference parameters

The following reference parameters are defined for this template:

alt_part_rel(Type='ENTITY (Alternate_part_relationship)')

Allow the Alternate_part_relationship entity instantiated in this path to be referenced when this template is used.

Note: The Alternate_part_relationship entity can be referenced in a template path by:

%^target = $representing_alternate_part_relationship.alt_part_rel%

where target is the parameter to which the Alternate_part_relationship is bound.

Uniqueness constraints

The following parameter combinations specify a uniqueness constraint:

Unique constraint: Alternate part

Each instance of the entity (Alternate_part_relationship) within the data set shall be uniquely identified by a combination of the following parameters on this template (representing_alternate_part_relationship) namely: base_part, alternate_part.
The instance is referenced by the following template parameter: alt_part_rel.

Instantiation path

The instantiation path shown below specifies the entities that are to be instantiated by the template.

A description of templates and the syntax for the instantiation path is provided in the Templates Help/Information section.

Alternate_part_relationship

-- Mark the Alternate_part_relationship entity as
-- referable when this template is used by binding it to the reference
-- parameter alt_part_rel
%^alt_part_rel = Alternate_part_relationship%
Alternate_part_relationship.name = '/IGNORE'
Alternate_part_relationship.description = '/IGNORE'
Alternate_part_relationship.criteria = '/IGNORE'
Alternate_part_relationship.base_product -> @base_part
Alternate_part_relationship.alternate_product -> @alternate_part

The following entities are instantiated with attributes as specified:

Entity in path	Value	Inherited from
Alternate_part_relationship.name	'/IGNORE'	Alternate_product_relationship.name
Alternate_part_relationship.description	'/IGNORE'	Alternate_product_relationship.description
Alternate_part_relationship.criteria	'/IGNORE'	Alternate_product_relationship.criteria

Instance diagrams

The instance diagram in Figure 3 shows an example of the EXPRESS entities and templates that are instantiated by the template:

/representing_alternate_part_relationship(base_part='#1', alternate_part='#2')/

(an illustration of the consolidated representing_alternate_part_relationship template is shown in Figure 4 below.)

Figure 3 — Entities instantiated by representing_alternate_part_relationship template

The instance model in STEP ASCII exchange file format (ISO 10303 Part 21 syntax) is:


          #1 = PART('/IGNORE','/IGNORE','/IGNORE');
          #2 = PART('/IGNORE','/IGNORE','/IGNORE');
          #3 = ALTERNATE_PART_RELATIONSHIP('/IGNORE','/IGNORE',#1,#2,'/IGNORE');

The instance diagram in Figure 4 shows the graphic symbol for the template that is to be used in other instance diagrams. The example template is:

/representing_alternate_part_relationship(base_part='#1', alternate_part='#2')/

Figure 4 — Instantiation of representing_alternate_part_relationship template

Characterizations

No common characterizations of the template representing_alternate_part_relationship have been identified. However, the ISO 10303-239 EXPRESS model may enable other assignments to the entities instantiated by the template.