Specifies the characteristics of one or more parts or subassemblies in an assembly. When you place a part or subassembly into an assembly, properties that determine the following are set:

• The placement name of a part or subassembly.

• Whether the part is selectable or not selectable.

• The quantity of the part.

• The x, y, and z location for grounded parts or parts with no assembly relationships.

• Whether the part is displayed in a higher level assembly.

• Whether the part is displayed in a drawing of the assembly.

• Whether the part is considered a reference part in a drawing or parts list.

• Whether the part is used in a report, such as a Bill of Material.

• Whether the part is used in mass property calculations of the assembly.

• Whether a part is used in an interference analysis calculation.

You can set these properties while you are placing the part or subassembly, or you can change them later using the Occurrence Properties dialog box.

When you select only the top-level assembly in PathFinder, the Occurrence Properties dialog box displays the entire assembly structure using a bill of materials format. You can expand and collapse subassemblies within the assembly structure.

When you select one or more parts or subassemblies, the selected occurrences are displayed using a table format, and you cannot expand or collapse subassemblies.

For occurrences that are grounded or with no assembly relationships applied to them, you can reposition or rotate the occurrence by editing its x, y, z coordinates with respect to the assembly origin or another coordinate system. For occurrences that are positioned using assembly relationships or linked to an assembly sketch, the coordinate value boxes are read-only.

Shortcut menu commands are available in the Occurrence Properties dialog box. For example, you can reorganize and control the display of the columns on the Occurrence Properties dialog box using the Columns command on the shortcut menu.

In a Teamcenter-managed environment, Solid Edge Assembly occurrence properties are written to Teamcenter for the corresponding BOM Line. Solid Edge Embedded Client Administrator delivers the Teamcenter schema that supports this functionality. The CAD document owns the properties and they are written to Teamcenter. By publishing the Assembly occurrence data to Teamcenter, a Teamcenter report produces the same results as a Solid Edge report such as a Bill of Material.