Clearance Analysis Exclude Sheet Bodies?
Clearance Analysis Exclude Sheet Bodies?
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Hello,
I want to do a quick check to see if any components in an assembly are intersecting with one another (hard interference). Now, some of the components have sheet bodies (used as helpers for constructing a solid body) which I hide from view. I do not want these sheet bodies to be included in the analysis. So I set up the Clearance Analysis dialog box as such:
Clearance between COMPONENTS
Collections ONE
Collection one ALL VISIBLE OBJECTS
I assume that "all visible objects" means that the analysis will only include everything that the eye can see, however this is not the case since the hidden sheet bodies are still included in the analysis.
One solution is to do a clearance between solids, then select all the solids in the graphics view. This will exclude sheet bodies from the analysis, but my question is, how can sheet bodies be excluded from a components analysis (preferably in an automatic manner)?
I want to do a quick check to see if any components in an assembly are intersecting with one another (hard interference). Now, some of the components have sheet bodies (used as helpers for constructing a solid body) which I hide from view. I do not want these sheet bodies to be included in the analysis. So I set up the Clearance Analysis dialog box as such:
Clearance between COMPONENTS
Collections ONE
Collection one ALL VISIBLE OBJECTS
I assume that "all visible objects" means that the analysis will only include everything that the eye can see, however this is not the case since the hidden sheet bodies are still included in the analysis.
One solution is to do a clearance between solids, then select all the solids in the graphics view. This will exclude sheet bodies from the analysis, but my question is, how can sheet bodies be excluded from a components analysis (preferably in an automatic manner)?
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RE: Clearance Analysis Exclude Sheet Bodies?
RE: Clearance Analysis Exclude Sheet Bodies?
SDETERS, with your method I would have to before a clearance analysis create a reference set for each part and select every body that should be included? This is the sort of time consuming labor that I'm trying to avoid.
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RE: Clearance Analysis Exclude Sheet Bodies?
John R. Baker, P.E.
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RE: Clearance Analysis Exclude Sheet Bodies?
Customer Default -> Assemblies -> Site Standards -> Reference Sets
...and in the area labeled 'Contents', toggle ON the 'Solids Priority' option and toggle OFF the 'Add Components Automatically' option.
This way, sheet bodies will automatically NOT be included in the 'Model' Reference Set unless there are NO solid bodies in the model. Also, it's recommended that you NOT include any Components in a 'Model' Reference Set. If you make these changes to Customer Defaults then your workflow should be much more 'automated' in the sense that the downstream applications and functions will behave more consistently as well as in line with the way they were designed to behave in the first place.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Clearance Analysis Exclude Sheet Bodies?
NX9 Win8.1 64bit i7-3770K 16GB Quadro2000