No changes were made for 3DCS Mechanical Model for 7.9.0.2.

Dialog

•The Swap Features button is now fixed in all Mechanical moves dialogs. (71205)

General

•Fixed a crash for the DOF Counter and Monte Carlo Simulation, if a Contact move was used in the model. (70113)

•Increased the default height of the dialog for all Mechanical moves. (70180)

•Removed the Default Target direction in the Constraints and Joints Setting Tab and added a new setting "Set in NB" which moves the parts to whichever direction minimizes their "flipping." when Nominal Build and then shows that direction in this dialog whether Against or Align.

Moves

•Enhanced the Move Parts tab of all Mechanical Moves to only allow the correct number of parts given the Move that is used. (62140)

•Enhanced the Planar Joint to solve more cases. (70171)

DOF Counter

•Added an option to display the 6 Degrees of Freedom to show Translations (T) and Rotations (R). (70153)

•The DOF Counter will contain Rigid Body Moves but show them as N/A in the graph. (70172)

Validation

•An error message is added if the Measure is incomplete if From or To Part is not selected and if a Part without any surfaces are used in the Collision Generator or Part Distance measure. The Run Log and Validate dialog will also show the error.(70458)

General

•Fixed the Pressure Angle Measurement in Gears to show in degrees.(69899)

Gear Modeling - is a new Dialog-based utility to facilitate the gear modeling and calculate Angle and Axial Backlash.

Collision Detection - Is a new tool which automatically generates Part Distance measurements that calculates the Min Distance, Interference and Clearance between the selected parts.

Part Distance Measure - Is a new measure to measure the distance between 2 or more parts between the parts in "From" list and "To" List and gives the minimum distance between them. It internally uses all the meshed features on each part, calculating the distance between each feature and each mesh node.

General

•Fixed a feature selection error from the MM Dialog.(68455)

•Removed the "Default" Drop Dof setting and defaulted the setting to "No".(69126)

•Changed the Pressure Angle Measure name to be different from the Move Name created by the Gear Modeler dialog. (69685)

•Removed the unwanted error message for the Iteration Gear Moves.(69734)

•Fixed to show the "both components fixed" warning when even one move is detected with a fixed part (in the subassembly).(69612)

Dialog

•Float Angle Random#2 won't change from 360 to 1 when editing or creating a Joint or Constraint type move. (65317)

Dialog

•Fixed the Mechanical Help Icon disappearing bug in SW.(68285)

General

•Updated the internal solver D-Cubed (3D DCM) to v55.0 (65098)

Moves

•Nominal Build will build to the Motion Move's Beginning Position. (66142)

•The Range and Offset values for Rand 2 will be displayed correctly for Mechanical Moves. (65315)

•Model Nominal Position will build the model to Motion Move's Beg_Pos.(64630).

•Use Point As option is now hidden in the setting tab for all Joints.(67832)

•Revolute and Prismatic Joint will now use Planes to define direction. (67817)

•Sub Assembly constraints extraction will automatically create a break Part constraint to make 3DCS Moves work similar to CAD

General

•The Compliant and Mechanical licenses will now be loaded automatically when opening an existing model.

•Fixed an issue where the full range of motion in a Motion move would be used and shown in the results.

•Incomplete Mechanical Moves will not effect the results. (62807)

•Switching Type inside the Mechanical Move Dialog will now instantly Update the Float Tab as well. (62485)

•Kinematic Simulation Start button will be grayed out if there is no active Motion Move in the model. (61496)

•Updated the Coincidence Constraint icon. (63452)

•MVA Configuration will have Motion Function supported. (63330)

•The order of Mechanical add-on tab has been updated. (63153).

•Kinematic Simulation now has Multi-core support. (62861)

•All distribution type floating will now allow floating scale set to >1. (64526)

Dialogs

•DOF Counter dialog size is enhanced for better resizing. (63269)

•Clicking [Build to Move] will no longer hide the Move Component Row in the DOF Dialog. (62916)

•Fixed Pick Constant Angle from the Mechanical Moves dialog, Float tab, to correctly open the Pick Vector direction dialog. (64268)

Degree of Freedom Counter

•The new matrix-designed counter to show remaining Degrees of Freedom in a Mechanical and Kinematic assembly.

•When two points are used to define a point in a Point-on-Plane move, the average is now used. Resolved an issue when a slot of tab is used in a Mech move.

•Added a Column to the DOF Counter dialog to display the Move parent. (63840)

•The DOF number calculation error is fixed. (63845)

•Planar Constraint with or without offset value will drop the same DOF. (64901)

•Added Icons for the Moves to display in the DOF Counter Dialog. (64178)

Moves (Joints/Constraints)

•Contact Move can now select more than two features (Points, Surfaces, and Edges) and changed how the fields select one or more features.

•The "Use Point As" setting has been updated in the Contact Constraint options dialog.

•Enhanced the Contact move to allow curved edges to be selected, allowing for more functionality to follow complex curve-types using the Motion move. (63257)

•Mechanical Moves order has been Updated. (63134)

•Using Angled Planes for Constraints will now build correctly (62201).

•Break Move is now enhanced which will now remove all previously applied Mechanical moves only on the chosen Features or Parts.

•Break Move dialog will now have features tab, allowing feature selection. (63978)

•Resolved crash on deleting points from the Contact move. (62918).

•Validate will now catch if more than 2 parts selected in the Move part list except for Fix, Fix Together and Break Moves. (63924)

•If Fix Together is applied for 3 parts breaking one of the three parts using "Break Part" will still keep the Fix Together on the other 2 parts.

•If Motion is set to Translate component or Translate by steps, Feature Tab field will not be available as it is not needed.(66635)

Validation

•Run Log warning added if Fix Together fails in a Motion Move (63232)

Mechanical

Issues Resolved (NX)

Issues Resolved (CATIA V5)