3D Functional Tolerancing and Annotation
New Functionalities
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Activating and Displaying a View/Annotation Plane
- The Display View contextual menu command allows you
to display selected view/annotation plane.
- Analyzing Display Mode
- The Analysis Display Mode option allows you to
display and customize the color display for true dimensions,
dimensions and annotations on deleted geometry, dimensions and
annotations on unloaded geometry and invalid dimensions and
annotations.
- Creating an Annotation Set from an Existing One
- The new New Annotation Set From...
command allows you to create a new annotation set from an existing
one in another CATPart document with
certain rules.
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Displaying a Tolerancing Capture
- The Display and Set Current Capture command allows
you to display the capture and to associate from now new created
annotations, views, annotation planes with the capture.
- Dimensioning Chamfers
- The Chamfer Dimension command displayed in the
Tolerancing Advisor on selecting a chamfered surface allows
you to create chamfer dimensions and tolerances.
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DS ISO 1 Open Type Font
- This font allows you to represent annotations that follow the
ISO norms defining text representation (ISO 3098 norms). Four new
standards (ISO_DS,
ISO_3D_DS, JIS_DS, JIS_3D_DS) are available that use DS ISO 1 as
the default font.
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Basic Review Capabilities of 3D XML Features Within 3D XML Player
and 3D Live
- Functional Tolerancing & Annotations features in 3D XML can be
reviewed within 3D XML Player and 3D Live (without requiring the
Live FTA Review license).
- Reordering Features in the Specification Tree
- Reordering of view/annotation planes, datums, datum targets and
tolerancing captures is possible in the specification tree.
Tolerancing of User Features
- Tolerancing User Features Automatically
- The User Feature Tolerance command displayed in the
Tolerancing Advisor on selecting an user feature or
technological result of user feature for which a tolerancing schema
has been defined allows you to automatically tolerance user features
or technological result of user feature.
- Tolerancing Schema Catalog
- The administrator can define the tolerancing schema catalog for
automatic tolerancing of user features or technological result of
user feature.
- User Feature Tolerances Administration Toolbar
- This new toolbar is available for tolerancing schema creation.
View Orientation Management
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View/Annotation Planes
- The new View Creation command for plane creation
replaces the previous commands: Front View, Section
View and Section Cut View.
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View Creation dialog box
- The View Creation dialog box enables you to create
View/Annotation planes.
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Change View Support dialog box
- The Change View Support dialog box allows you to change the
orientation of views by
changing the definition plane of a view.
- Views/Annotation Planes Toolbar
- The new View Creation command for plane creation has
been added in this toolbar and replaces the previous commands:
Front View, Section View and Section Cut View.
Enhanced Functionalities
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All Possible Types Option in Semantic Tolerancing Advisor dialog box
- The All Possible Types option in the Semantic
Tolerancing Advisor dialog box displays all the possible
commands in the Commands frame and automatically updates
the Geometry feature type list to All possible types
option.
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Clipping Annotation Plane
- The clipping is displayed for Aligned/Offset Section Cut/View
when using the Clipping Plane or Select
command (with the 3D-Annotation-Query Switch On/Switch Off
option command active).
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Creating an Automatic Default Annotation
- The fillet radius criteria can now be taken into account in the
fillet faces selection.
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Creating Framed Basic Dimensions
- A localization geometrical tolerance without datum reference
frame and applied to a circular or rectangular pattern of
constructed geometries for thread representations, can now be taken
into account for automatic creation of framed/basic dimensions.
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Font Linking Mechanism and True Type Collection Fonts
- The support for the font linking mechanism and TrueType
Collection fonts is available.
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Managing 3D Annotations in Result Annotation Set
- The contextual menu command Delete_Result_Feature
allows the individual deletion of features in the Result Annotation
Set.
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Managing Hide/Show in Captures
- The Show/Hide status of external part instances whose geometries
are referenced by annotations in the Assembly Annotation Set can be
managed in capture.
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Mirroring Annotations
- The mirroring of annotations can be controlled using the
Mirror annotations option.
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Propagating Geometry Selection for Feature Creation
- The All same diameter, same pitch, parallel CG thread
Cylinders option allows you to
propagate the selection to the threads in the 3D part with the
same diameter and pitch, and parallel axis with the selected
Constructed Geometry Thread.
- Text, Flag Note and Note Object Attribute Creation
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Text,
Flag Note and
Note Object Attribute can be created on PartBody and Body
features, some Part Design features, Axis systems, User Features and
Technological Result features of Part Design Hole feature and User
Features.
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Using the Scope Range
- The contextual menu command Geometry Connection Management
allows you to see the last geometrical element to which the
annotation was linked to in case of broken links.
Creating an Automatic Constructed Geometry
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Constructed Geometry Circle
- A constructed geometry circle can be created from cone-plane,
cone-cylinder or cone-cone intersection.
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Highlighting Represented Geometry for Constructed Geometry
- Selecting a constructed geometry (generated automatically or
managed manually) highlights the represented geometry.
Introducing the Tolerancing Advisor
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Annotations Attached to First Selected Feature
- The dimension or annotation created using propagation commands
is attached to the first selected geometrical feature.
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Runout Tolerances in Revolute Surface
- The following commands are available for single and multiple
revolute surface selection: Circular Runout Specification
and Total Runout Specification.
Managing 3D Annotations in 3D XML Files
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Support of Aligned/Offset Section Cut/View 3D Clipping
- The 3D clipping is displayed on selecting the Aligned/Offset
Section Cut/View in the specification tree or geometry. It is also
displayed when selecting a capture that has a component of
Aligned/Offset Section Cut/View.
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Support of Text, Flag Note and Note Object Attribute
- The geometrical element is highlighted when Text, Flag Note or
Note Object Attribute is selected and vice-versa.
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Support of Show/Hide of Part Bodies and Geometrical Sets When
Displaying Capture
- The Show/Hide status of part bodies and geometrical sets is
respected when displaying a capture.
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Support of Tolerance Schema Applied to User Features
- The geometric features, dimensions, tolerances and annotations
that are linked to the tolerancing schema are highlighted when the
Nx text is highlighted.
Customizing Settings
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Tool > Options > Mechanical Design > Functional Tolerancing &
Annotation > Dimension tab > Analysis Display Mode area
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The Activate analysis display mode option allows you to
customize
3D annotations using different colors
according to their types and status.
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Tool > Options > Mechanical Design > Functional Tolerancing &
Annotation > Display tab > Capture display area
- The Mirror annotations option defines whether the
annotations are automatically mirrored when displaying a capture.
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Tool > Options > Mechanical Design > Functional Tolerancing &
Annotation > Tolerances tab > Chamfer Size area
- This option defines the tolerance options for chamfer size.
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Tool > Options > Mechanical Design > Functional Tolerancing &
Annotation > View/Annotation Plane tab > Dimension And Annotation
Default Position Along Normal View area
- The Try to create in the annotation plane (Z=0)
option defines whether the application always tries to create
dimension or annotation in the plane of the current annotation plane
when its definition allows to do it. Thus this option defines the
dimension and annotation position at creation.
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Tool > Options > Mechanical Design > Functional Tolerancing &
Annotation > Tolerances tab > New Size Tolerances Creation area
- The Propose the last created tolerance values option
defines whether
the last tolerance type and values defined in a command should
be proposed as default for the next command.
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Tool > Options > Mechanical Design > Functional Tolerancing &
Annotation > Tolerancing tab > User Features Tolerancing Schemas
Catalog area
- This option allows you to define the path to the tolerancing
schema catalog that is to be used for automatic tolerancing of user
feature or technological result of user feature