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GUI Default Settings

slide-number: Initial slide # displayed on the report.; Default/Allowed: 1
action: Action items.; Default/Allowed: check, report or both (default)
mode: Execution mode. Interactive mode will be slower than background mode.; Default/Allowed: interactive or background
input: Initial director for CAD Input.; Default/Allowed: C:/temp
output: Initial director for results output.; Default/Allowed: C:/temp

Hole Detection

min-diameter: Minimum diameter for surface hole recognition. Holes below this diameter will be ignored.; Default/Allowed: 1.0 to 10.0
max-diameter: Maximum diameter for surface hole recognition. Holes above this diameter will be ignored.; Default/Allowed: 1.0 to 10.0
min-nodes: Minimum number of nodes to recognize FE hole. Holes with nodes less than this number will be ignored.; Default/Allowed: 4 to 10
max-nodes: Maximum number of nodes to recognize FE hole. Holes with nodes greater than this number will be ignored.; Default/Allowed: 30 to 50
adjacent-tolerance: Distance to judge duplicate holes for the same plate. If the Holes to Holes distance is less than this value it is considered as a duplicate hole.; Default/Allowed: 3.0 to 5.0

Free Hole

do-check: Turn OFF or ON the check.; Default/Allowed: ON or OFF
elem-adj-bbox-tolerance: Search tolerance for searching nearest bolts/nuts from the hole center.
Figure 1.; Default/Allowed: 10.0

If there is no bolt, nut or screw nearby, the holes are considered as free holes.

freeboltnut

do-check: Turn OFF or ON the check.; Default/Allowed: ON or OFF
bolt-box-tolerance: Search tolerance for searching nearest plates from the bolt outer surfaces.
Figure 3.; Default/Allowed: 1.0 to 5.0
nut-box-tolerance: Search tolerance for searching nearest plates from the nut outer surface.
Figure 4.; Default/Allowed: 5.0 to 10.0
allowed-plate-comps: These named parts will not be considered as plates.; Default/Allowed: string names of special parts

Bolt or Nut CAD data that are not passing through the plates or floating in the space without the plates are found.

bolthole-mismatch

do-check: Turn OFF or ON the check.; Default/Allowed: ON or OFF
input-type: Continuous CAD lines or CAD solids.; Default/Allowed: lines or solids
centernode-search-tolerance: Search tolerance for searching holes from bolt CAD surface.
Figure 6.; Default/Allowed: 1.0 to 2.0
elem-adj-bbox-tolerance: Tolerance for searching nearest plates from the bolt outer surface.
Figure 7.; Default/Allowed: 5.0 to 10.0
min-dist: Allowable mismatch distance between bolt axis and hole axis.
Figure 8.; Default/Allowed: 0.1 to 1.0
max-dist: Maximum search distance between bolt axis and the hole axis.; Default/Allowed: 5.0 to 10.0

Mismatch issues are found if the mismatch is between min-dist to max-dist value.

nuthole-mismatch

do-check: Turn OFF or ON the check.; Default/Allowed: ON or OFF
input-type: Continuous CAD lines or CAD solids.; Default/Allowed: lines or solids
centernode-search-tolerance: Search tolerance for searching holes from bolt/nut CAD surface.
Figure 10.; Default/Allowed: 1.0 to 2.0
elem-adj-bbox-tolerance: Tolerance for searching nearest plates from the nut outer surface.
Figure 11.; Default/Allowed: 5.0 to 10.0
min-dist: Allowable mismatch distance between nut axis and hole axis. If the mismatch is less than this value issues will not be reported.
Figure 12.; Default/Allowed: 0.1 to 1.0
max-dist: Maximum search distance between nut axis and the hole axis. If the mismatch is greater than this value issues will not be reported.; Default/Allowed: 5.0 to 10.0

Issues are found if the mismatch distance is between min-dist to max-dist range.

boltnut-mismatch

do-check: Turn OFF or ON the check.; Default/Allowed: ON or OFF
elem-adj-bbox-tolerance: Tolerance for searching nearest plates from the nut outer surface.
Figure 14.; Default/Allowed: 5.0 to 10.0
threshold-angle: Allowable angle between center axis of bolt and the nut. More than this angle, the check will be ignored for that pair of connection parts.
Figure 15.; Default/Allowed: 10.0 to 30 deg
min-dist: Allowable mismatch distance between nut axis and hole axis. If the mismatch is less than this value issues will not be reported.
Figure 16.; Default/Allowed: 0.1 to 1.0
max-dist: Maximum search distance between nut axis and the hole axis. If the mismatch is greater than this value, issues will not be reported.; Default/Allowed: 5.0 to 10.0

Bolt-nut mismatch issues will be reported if the Bolt and Nut sizes are not within min-dist and max-dist range.

boltnutsize-mismatch

do-check: Turn OFF or ON the check.; Default/Allowed: ON or OFF
elem-adj-bbox-tolerance: Tolerance for searching nearest bolt, plates from the nut outer surface.
Figure 18.; Default/Allowed: 5.0 to 10.0
min-dist: Allowable mismatch distance between nut axis and hole axis. If the mismatch is less than this value issues will not be reported.
Figure 19.; Default/Allowed: 0.1 to 1.0
min-nut-tol-bolt-ratio: Allowable minimum ratio between bolt and nut size. If the ratio is less than this value the issue is reported.
Figure 20.; Default/Allowed: 0.8 to 0.9
max-nut-tol-bolt-ratio: Allowable maximum ratio between bolt and the nut size. If the ratio is greater than this value the issue is reported.
Figure 21.; Default/Allowed: 1.1 to 1.3

Issues will be reported if the Bolt size and Nut size are not within the range of min-nut-tol-bolt-ratio and the max-nut-tol-bolt-ratio.

holes-mismatch

do-check: Turn OFF or ON the check.; Default/Allowed: ON or OFF
min-dist: Allowable mismatch distance between nut axis and hole axis. If the mismatch is less than this value the issues will not be reported.
Figure 23.; Default/Allowed: 0.1 to 1.0
max-dist: Maximum search distance between hole center node axis.; Default/Allowed: 5.0 to 10.0
centernode-search-tolerance: Tolerance for searching nearest plates from the hole center.
Figure 24.; Default/Allowed: 1.0 to 2.0
elem-adj-bbox-tolerance: Tolerance for searching nearest plates from the hole center.
Figure 25.; Default/Allowed: 5.0 to 10.0

Issues will be reported if the center axis distance between two holes are not with the min-dist and max-dist.

holespair-mismatch

do-check: Turn OFF or ON the check.; Default/Allowed: ON or OFF
elem-adj-bbox-tolerance: Tolerance for searching nearest plates from the hole center.
Figure 27.; Default/Allowed: 5.0 to 10.0
centernode-search-tolerance: Tolerance for searching nearest plates from the hole center.
Figure 28.; Default/Allowed: 1.0 to 2.0

Holes not found in the nearest plates are reported as an issue nearest plates. Plate holes are searched with centernode-search-tolerance tolerance.

Clip-mismatch

do-check: Turn OFF or ON the check.; Default/Allowed: ON or OFF
input-type: Continuous CAD lines or CAD solids.; Default/Allowed: lines or solids
centernode-search-tolerance: Search tolerance from center clip to holes center.
Figure 30.; Default/Allowed: 1.0 to 2.0
min-dist: Allowable mismatch distance between clip axis and hole axis.
Figure 31.; Default/Allowed: 0.5 to 1.0
max-dist: Maximum distance between clip axis and the hole axis. Greater than this value the clip parts are ignored in the check.; Default/Allowed: 5.0 to 15.0

Issues will be reported if the center axis of clip data and the center axis of the hole node is greater than the min-dist and less than max-dist.

Arc/Seam/Adhesive/Seal/Hemming -mismatch

do-check: Turn OFF or ON the check.; Default/Allowed: ON or OFF
input-type: Continuous CAD lines or CAD solids.; Default/Allowed: lines or solids
elem-adj-bbox-tolerance (tol): Search tolerance for finding the nearest weldable plates. If less than two parts are found the issue is reported.
Figure 33.; Default/Allowed: 10.0
min-dist: Minimum distance between arc weld to the nearest parts. If less than two parts are found the issue is reported.; Default/Allowed: 0.1 to 5.0
max-dist: Maximum distance between weld lines to the nearest parts.; Default/Allowed: 5.0 to 10.0

Finds shape mismatch between the weld lines against the plates with the given min and max distance.

The mismatches are measured from the end points of the line.