Hi Pros,
we are getting ready to switch from 9.0 to 9.1. There are new types of associations in 9.1, but very little documentation - at least I could not find any good explanation. Do you have or would you share your use cases of these types?
Dmitry
Here is PTC's definition of association types:
Owner – This association enables all functions: driving structure, passing attributes, and representation. In other words, it indicates the primary representation that also drives the structure and the majority of the attributes for the part.
Contributing Image – This association combines representation and attribute passing. Although a contributing image does not ’drive’ structure, it contributes to the product structure of a parent object. For example, a flexible component (cable) may occur, say, three times in an assembly but routed differently in each case. While Pro/ENGINEER requires separate model files for each routing, these models can be associated to a single part (one having an owner link and two having contributing image links). The resultant product structure would show three occurrences of a single part.
Image – This association is for representation; for example, for copies of the primary CAD representation used in other CAD systems, such as a Pro/ENGINEER CAD part model created from an Associated Topology Bus import of CATIA V5 data. As with the contributing image link, an object with an image link contributes to the parent product structure (but does not pass attributes).
Contributing Content – This association enables the passing of attributes only and does not show in a product structure.
Content – This association is “passive,” meaning that the CAD document describes the part but does not drive structure, pass attributes, nor provide a representation (that is, it is not a build rule link). Examples would include manufacturing objects, process plans, layouts, and so on.
