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In the following the setting options on the Search tabbed page are explained:
Optionally you can determine the catalog or directory to search under Search in.
Advantage: Exclusion of unwanted search results and a certain speed benefit.
Select one of the following options in the list field:
Current selection (the directory selected on the Catalogs tabbed page)
You can find details on this under Section 3.1.6.2.1, “ Custom selection... ”.
In the list field select one of the two options under Search for:
If the search has been specified by any means, then this option is advantageous.
Full-text search with the following search term:
Hexagon bolt D=10 L=50
Searching in own part catalogs
Often a project only consists of one single line (characteristic) or heterogenous parts with completely different shape are combined in a classification project. In both cases searching for parts would be advantageous.
Search for parts and part families
If you do not specify the search in a first step this option is better, because all single characteristics are collected in a part family.
Full-text search with the following search term:
Hexagon bolt
You can determine the characteristic in a later step. Via double-click on a part this is opened on the View tabbed page. See Section 2.6.4.4, “"View" tabbed page - Variable list | 3D view | Technical details | 2D derivation | Links ”.
Basically there are two possibilities: Manual searching of directories or using an automated search method.
Manual searching the directories:
Select the Catalogs tabbed page. You can find detailed information on this under Section 2.6.4.2, “"Catalogs" tabbed page”.
Automated searching the directories:
On the Search tabbed page the following search methods are available:
For detailed information see Section 3.1.6.4.2, “ Full-text search ”.
For detailed information see Section 3.1.6.4.3, “ Variables search ”.
In the dialog box Geometric search (3D), when clicking on the button From CAD, you can load the current part.
From the list of search results, you can directly load parts into the Part comparison. Detailed information on Part comparison can be found under Section 3.1.6.10, “ Part comparison ”.
Detailed information on Geometric Search can be found under Section 3.1.6.4.4, “ Geometric search (3D) ”.
Information on calling the Geometric Search from the CAD is found under Section 2.6.9, “ Execute Geometric Search ”.
For detailed information see Section 3.1.6.4.5, “ Sketch search (2D) ”.
For detailed information see Section 3.1.6.4.6, “ Color search ”.
For detailed information see Section 3.1.6.4.10, “ Topology search ”.
Determine one or several search methods: (Full-text search is opened and activated by default)
Other search methods can be added by clicking on the respective link or context menu command anytime.
With click on you can remove methods.
Via checkbox you can activate or deactivate methods for a certain search run.
Open: |
The view switches to the View tabbed page (alternatively you can perform a double-click.) See Section 2.6.4.4, “"View" tabbed page - Variable list | 3D view | Technical details | 2D derivation | Links ”. On the level of part families initially a middle line is displayed, on the level of parts the specific part is displayed. |
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Add to part compare / Compare |
The Part comparison dialog box opens and now the Seamless dialog box is displayed together with the Part comparison in one window. As soon as the Part comparison is finished, the original Seamless layout is shown again.[a] Detailed information on Part comparison is found under Section 3.1.6.10, “ Part comparison ”. |
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Export to CAD: |
The part is directly transferred to the CAD system. The placement dialog opens (see Section 2.6.1, “ Insert model (3D) from the Standard and supplier parts library ”). The command is only available for parts (characteristics), not for part families. |
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Add to favorites ... |
Save often needed parts as favorites. See also Section 2.6.4.3, “"Favorites" tabbed page”. The command is both available on the level of part families and on the level of parts. |
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[a] Whether Seamless shall be shown left or right from the Part comparison, is set in a configuration file. On this see Section 1.7.4.8.18, “ Key "SeamlessWindowInCompareSide" - Seamless - Part comparison | Right-left setting” in PARTsolutions / PARTcommunity4Enterprise - Administration Manual. |
Depending on the setting of Show parts or Show parts and part families (compare above) access on parts differs. Whether a project (part or assembly) is displayed or a specific characteristic you can recognize by the respective icon:
Restrict search results with catalog filter
After a Full-text search or Variables search a Catalog filter is displayed. If hits have been scored over several catalogs, then you can restrict the result to a certain catalog subsequently.
After every new search the filter is reset again.
If more than 50 results are available[16] the button appears at the page end. Normally the desired results are under the first hits. However if you want to see more results, successively click on or click on .
On this see under Section 3.3.10, “ "Search" tabbed page ”.
[16] If you want to change the default setting click on the button right below and select the General tabbed page.