15 awesome Teamcenter shortcut keys.

15 awesome Teamcenter shortcut keys

One of my personal favorites among the most useful features that Teamceter comes with, is some awesome keyboard shortcut keys. I personally use them as much as I can, to save time and I recommend the practice of using keyboard shortcuts to others too.

Beside the conventional shortcut keys like - Ctrl + X for Cut, Ctrl + C for Copy, Ctrl + V – paste, Delete – for delete operation,  there are lot more Teamcenter shortcut keys.

This article talks about 15 really cool Teamcenter shortcut keys. I can bet that you don’t know all of them. Check them out, some of them will surprise you for sure.

1. Switch between open perspectives - Ctrl+F8 / Ctrl+Shift+F8

   When you are working on some project involved in various Teamcenter modules, switching between the open perspectives is a pain. 

   But not any more… use any of the following Teamcenter shortcut keys to change from the currently displayed open perspective to another open perspective:

•   To go back to last accessed opened perspective, use Ctrl+Shift+F8. It will display an application opened before the current application.
•  And to go forward Ctrl+F8 to display an application opened before the current application.
• Hold down Ctrl+F8 to display a Perspectives menu, and then release F8 and use your mouse or your keyboard arrows to select the perspective to display.

New creation operation

Creating a new item is the most commonly used operation in Teamcenter. So here we are, just choose the folder or the parent under which you want to create a new Item or similar action and fire Ctrl + *. The new creation wizard dialog box will be there waiting for you to complete the procedure. This bunch of new creation operations has shortcut keys as follows - 

2. Create new Item - Ctrl + T.

3. Create new Folder - Ctrl + F.

4. Create new Dataset - Ctrl + D.

5. Create new Form - Ctrl + M.

6. Create new Workflow Process - Ctrl + P.

7. Create new CAE Item - Ctrl + E.

8. Create new other - Ctrl + H.

9. Create new BOM View - Ctrl + B.

10. Open operation – Ctrl + O

Here is one of the special Teamcenter shortcut keys Ctrl + O. This key basically stands for the open operation. Whatever is there as the workspace object, open operation will be performed on it as per the context. For example -

• In My Teamcenter, Ctrl+O used after selecting any Item then this operation will open the Item in My Teamcenter. 
• While on the other hand if Ctrl+O is fired from System Engineering perspective after selecting any Requirement or Requirement Spec Item then you will get the structured Requirement Item opened in System engineering.

Structure Manager Shortcut keys

Here are some most important but almost unknown Teamcenter shortcut keys. All these three operations are most commonly used operations, here they are - 

11.  Toggle precise imprecise - Ctrl + Shift + F.

12.  Save BOM Window - Ctrl + S.

13.  Remove BOMLine - Ctrl + R.

Miscellaneous

      14.   Select any Teamcenter component (like Item, ItemRevisio, Form, Dataset, Folder, etc) 

      and just by Alt + Enter you can view Properties of this component.

      15.   And finally when you want to exit from Teamcenter( and enjoy your rest of the day ;) )here is the Teamceter shortcut keys Alt + F4.

So start using these Teamcenter shortcut keys and save some of your precious time.

Please write your comments about your views, some missed shortcut keys, any correction or any suggestions.