People often wonder why Aras Innovator has Type classes and the best way to use them. Let’s take some time to clear this up.
For the folks who are configuring their system, class structure is an OOTB property for all items. It’s displayed as the attribute type which is how they are typically thought of. To minimize confusion, I’m going to call this property a “Class”.

A class is the ability…
As explained in our Getting Started with Graph Navigation Blog; graph nav is a very useful visualization tool within Aras Innovator that provides users a node-edge graph view of related parts, BOM’s, assemblies, etc. In this blog post we will explore how to make the graph nav easily accessible in the side nav for any ItemType through some simple configuration of the CUI. This type of customization is just one example…