Creating and managing systems engineering models > Defining design requirements > Requirement dialog box

Requirement dialog box

Reference documentation for the fields in the Requirement dialog box (opened via Home tab → Systems Engineering group → Requirement, see "Create a requirement").

Parent Selection

Field	Description
Select Parent Requirement	Lets you select the parent requirement of this requirement.

Requirement Information

Field	Description
Description	Lets you type a description of the requirement.

Requirement Instance Information

Only available in Teamcenter Integration mode and when the requirement is not a root requirement.

Field	Description
Instance Name	Sets the instance name of the requirement.

Note: If the requirement is saved to Teamcenter Integration, the instance name is stored as a BOM Line attribute.

Attribute model summary

Based on this dialog box, the requirement object model in MCD is intentionally lightweight at the native-application level: a requirement has a Name (set at creation), a Description, an optional parent/child hierarchical position, and — only when synchronized with Teamcenter Integration mode — an Instance Name stored as a BOM Line attribute (reflecting that in Teamcenter, requirement structures are modeled as BOM-like structures with instance-specific occurrence data). Richer requirement attributes (priority, status, category, verification criteria, etc.) are managed on the Teamcenter side via the Requirements Manager Guide and Microsoft Word-embedded editing, not natively inside this dialog box.

Related Concepts

Defining design requirements
Requirements shortcut commands

Related Tasks

Create a requirement
Import a requirement from Teamcenter