{"id":492,"date":"2012-04-18T16:55:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T23:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Femap-Tips-and-Tricks-Using-Reference-Groups\/ba-p\/334861"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:00:36","slug":"femap-tips-and-tricks-using-reference-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/femap-tips-and-tricks-using-reference-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Femap Tips and Tricks: Using Reference Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The Groups capability can be used in <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/velocity\/femap\/index.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap<\/A>to help organize various entities in a model and aid visualization.However Femap also offers the Reference Groups capability which extends this, allowing you to manipulate existing groups without changing their underlying definition, and essentially define groups of groups.<BR \/><BR \/><\/P><DIV style=\"background-color: #F9F9F9;border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;padding: 3px;font: 11px\/1.4em Arial, sans-serif;margin: 0.5em 0pt 0.5em 0.8em;width:300px;\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/velocity\/femap\/demos\/index.shtml#lightview%26uri=tcm:1023-183632%26title=Femap%20Tips%20and%20Tricks%20-%20Reference%20Groups%26docType=.flv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"size-medium wp-image-9188\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2012\/04\/Tip_ReferenceGroups-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/A><DIV style=\"text-align:center;\">Femap Reference Groups<\/DIV> <\/DIV><BR \/><BR \/>Alastair<BR \/><BR \/>Follow <A href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/femap.software\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap on facebook<\/A> and the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?gid=2270365&amp;trk=hb_side_g\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap group on LInkedin<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Groups capability can be used in Femapto help organize various entities in a model and aid visualization.However Femap also offers the Reference Groups capability which extends this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61582,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}