Imperfections in 3D designs are prevalent in the designers' fraternity, and primarily occur not only due to rising collaborations within design teams, but also because of concurrent modifications in the data. To address and rectify these design problems in 3DEXPERIENCE CATIA, we have an intensely powerful app – Interference Check, - which enables designers to run a simulation to identify interferences present in the design. However, it is often crucial for reviewers or design-leaders to have lightweight and resource-friendly tools to analyze interferences in designs and quickly take actions to resolve them.
Let’s explore the core capabilities of the web-based Interference Check app, which has the same name as the native app, and provides all of the answers to address these requirements. This app is packaged as part of two roles – Digital Mockup Review Manager (RED) and Device 3D Synthesis Review Manager (DMRMH). It facilitates quick review, report and resolution of the design interferences all inside a web browser that can be accessed anywhere, any time and on any device. Let’s dive a little deeper to understand how we can achieve this inside Interference Check app:
1. Perform Review Analysis
A detailed review analysis of all the interferences in the design can be performed inside the Interference Check web-app. It provides a range of different tools to display the list of interference metrics, visualize them in 3D, and perform measures or sections for deeper analysis. The user-level, as well as system-level, analysis status can be updated directly in the list such as OK, KO, clash or contact. Moreover, it is possible to convert this app into 3DMarkup, and leverage all the additional features to create markups, annotations and slides, enabling a comprehensive and collaborative review process.
2. Report Issues
Once the analysis is complete, it is essential to report the issues and dispatch the necessary actions to the stakeholders for resolution. The Interference Check web-app provides features not only to create new issues, but also to define the intricate details of these issues. The interfering parts are automatically attached to the issue along with the root as a context, and the issue is automatically assigned to the design-owners of the interfering parts. The interference simulation or metric, and even markups or documents, are linked to the issue as attachments – all without any need to leave the Interference Check web-app.
3. Resolve Problems Through Change Actions
Resolving the design issues through a formal change process is an integral part of the review process. The Interference Check web-app supports generation of new Change Action right within the app. The design-owners are added as assignees for the Change Action, and the interference metric under consideration is connected as Referential to the Change Action for continuous traceability. Furthermore, as the modifications are performed by designers to rectify the design, they are tracked under the Realized Changes section of the Change Action. This allows users to refer back to those exact modifications anytime in the future.
In conclusion, it is evident that the Interference Check web-app opens the door to a seamless and smooth review process to analyze design interferences, report critical issues and resolve problems through a formal change process.
Tips_and_Tricks 🧡3D_Product_Intelligence R2021x
