Model Variants: The new Model Variants functionality allows for multiple MTM's configurations to be saved in the 3DCS model.

GD&T Dialog: The GD&T dialog has been revamped for all platforms. Users can now Update GD&T, Push back Range and Offset values to the CAD platform. The GD&T dialog will replace the Feature Tolerance.

Alias Display

•Added GD&T datum reference frame to Alias Display. (63901)

•Updated Alias Display to show +/-, Range and Offset, Upper/Lower, depending what's set in the 3DCS Preferences. (63398)

•Alias Display will now correctly show the Material Condition in a tolerance name. (62046)

GD&T

•Extracting a Linear Size from GD&T will automatically create a Feature Slot/Tab in 3DCS. (62052).

•Slots feature created in 3DCS can now be used as Features in GD&T. (64362)

•3DCS will correctly extract the Range/Offset from the GD&T, regardless if the computer is using Comma or Period Delimiter, or if the GD&T was created with Commas or Periods. (63838).

•Initial GD&T syntax Checker is now available in the tolwizard.dll. (40628)

•Points using Symmetry and a Size tolerance should now represent a Pocket Size. (60913)

•Add GD&T and Insert GD&T options is now added to the Tree Right Click menu. (63437)

•Cur Direction in the new GD&T Dialog will only appear for cases that it applies: Position, Perpendicularity, Angularity, Parallelism, or Straightness set to planar zone. (63877)

•Added mask icon to show which GD&T are extracted. (63841)

•Orientation and form refinements in GD&T are no longer supported. These refinements can be converted to explicit callouts when opening the model in a newer version.(63510)

•Split up old Size GD&T into new Size (for features of size only), Dimensioning Location, Angle Size, and Torus Minor Diameter Size. (63453)

•Fixed excessive deviations for Angle Size GD&T.(63451)

•Zone, material modifier, and datum reference frame are available based on GD&T tolerance type. (63448)

•Fixed the HP clearance value shown in the sensitivity when profile is used to control size. (62908)

•Changed GD&T so that dimensioning location will be applied after other GD&Ts. This will allow a surface with a location tolerance to be an origin for a dimensioning location tolerance. (62901)

•Fixed deviation when orientation is combined with a location GD&T, eg Angularity and Surface Profile. (63772)

•Fixed errors with the Profile tolerance applying a refinement. (63254)

•Fixed an issue with Profile tolerance not using anti-rotation. (63254)

•Profile tolerance without an Active DRF will show the non-RSS results in a Simulation. (63052)

•Fixed an issue with reporting results with sub-datums GD&T. Internally, the order check removed GD&T with sub-datums from the HLM contributor list, but still affected the Statistical data (HST). (63012)

•Composite Position GD&T will no longer add Rand#3 as degrees (360 degrees) to results of the 6STD. (63541)

Preferences

•Applying the setting Range Control will no longer prevent users to change the deviation direction in the DRF Options. (62942)

•If the user is using Alias Display and selects Reset All Defaults in the Preferences dialog, 3DCS will warn the user that Alias Display will be reset. (61294).

•Increased the allowable Multi-Thread Number, between 0 and 64. One license will allow 8 cores to be used. Any more cores will require more Analyst Licenses (non-Add-on Licenses). (64351)

•Moved RSS Range setting from Sensitivity Settings in Analysis window to Validation tab in Preferences. This setting controls the display of composite ranges in sensitivity, geofactor, AAO, and Tolerance Optimizer ranges.(64079)

Dialogs

•Updated Slot/Tab Dialog. (61490).

•Updated the Validate Dialog to use Tabular Layout. (61581).

•"Use Type-In" and "Use Screen Position" names have been changed to "Use Local Coordinate System" and "Use Global Coordinate System", respectively. (Only for Copy Data, Point List, and Clone - Move dialog). (63132)

•In Copy Data dialog changed [...] button to [Select]. (62119)

•Multiple Measurements or Features can now be deleted from the Spec Study Dialog. (62161)

•Updated MTM Info shows more information about Moves, Tolerances and Measures. (59514)

•Updated the Feature Info Dialog (61583)

•Improved the Tolerance wizard dialog by adding multiple Filters and also added "Expand all Features" to the right click menu which will now toggle the Tree display better. (55773)

•SBS shows correct range for FRTZF of composite position GD&T. (63965)

•"Pick Constant Angle" name, for Move Float's Random #2, changed to "Set Offset". (64271)

•Added Up/Down arrows to edit the selected string order in some User DLL Dialogs (Ex., Measure Equation). (63597)

•Moved the Seed column in the Simulation Summary, between the Index and Sample Index. (63642)

•If the Feature is getting deleted outside the GD&T Dialog, it will leave an empty place holder in the GD&T dialog for that Feature, which user can fix it. (63208)

•Added Spec Study option to Copy Data Dialog. (62742)

•Added GD&Ts to the Copy Data dialog. GD&Ts are copied with an empty features list. (63634)

Measure

•Circle Interference measure now support Slot and Tab features. (37256)

•Updated the Measure Generator to prevent duplicate names from being created. (62642)

•Added parent to measure names for Conditional and Iterative logic. (58470)

Moves

•Improved the Feature Move to changed how the Tertiary planar feature aligns to the target feature. (62907)

•The Feature Move using axis as Primary, and if one axis vector direction is different, this caused the move to flip the axis when Deviating. (62809)

•If multiple features are selected in either the Object or Target fields, on the same plane, 3DCS will calculate the LSQ plane for all features. (62966)

•Direction Control to 6-Plane option will be removed from the Feature Move Dialog. (63894)

•The Feature Move and GD&T Plane Calculation Methods (Ls 6Plane, Ls High Point 6Plane, Nominal High Point 6Plane) are now considered obsolete and are no longer available to be used. These methods will remain to be supported in future releases of 3DCS. (62576)

•The Line-Plane move is available. (63889)

•Fixed an issue with the Feature Move: A previous enhancement checked for a tertiary planar feature to remain parallel, which prevented the move to float with an anti-rotation (tab to slot) as a tertiary locator. (64204)

Tolerances

•Removed access to create Process Capability Database (PCDB) Tolerance through Feature Tolerance (right-click menu). Please use GD&T to create PCDB tolerances. (64073)

•The Process Capability Database (PCDB) now supports Composite Profile and Composite Position tolerances. (60880).

•Improved the Trapezoid distribution, which can be largely skewed to one side and will reflect in the Histogram results on the left or right sides. (63156)

•3DCS will now treat orientation control in Feature and GD&T tolerances with a truncated magnitude (MinTruncOn or MaxTruncOn) as Bounded Distribution (using Magnitude-Angle to deviate).

•Opening Feature Tolerance for the first time will now give a warning message to use GD&T as feature tolerance will be removed from the next release. (64257)

Features

•Point Groups can now be defined as Open or Closed curve. (63290)

•Improved unique names when copying, moving or projecting points onto a feature, with a part that may already contain a point with the same name. (63958).

•Updated information about the "WrongTypetoReplace" suffix in the Help Manual.

Display

•Dynamic Points will remain if the user uses Delete Unused Data. (64683).

•Changed the Point Group button icon to match the icon shown in the tree. (63968)

•Added mask icon to show which GD&T are extracted. (63841)

•Small change to Slot/Tab icon. (63421)

•Updated icons for point on edge and center point of edge circle. (62454)

•Changed Alias Display to show "(M)" and "(L)" instead of "MMC" and "LMC". (63906)

User-DLL

•Tolerance Wizard DLL updated to open to the new GD&T GUI. (63913)

•Enhanced the Strings dialog for some DLL routines like Measure Equation and CMMDev2 DLL. Users will be able to change the order of Strings or File Paths by using an Up/Down arrows. (63106)

•Enhanced the CMMDev.DLL to allow for larger sets of data, and improved support to allow to run with Multi-Thread. (64018)

•The routine dcsMv1FeaIntereferenceRemove has been fixed, removing basic information required to solve Complaint models. (63049).

•Fixed a crash with dcu_Runout.dll and other DLLs when running a Simulation. (62498)

•Added Secant DLL that has routines with faster convergence than the Iteration move. (62770)

•Fixed Secant DLL issue with multi-thread. (63006)

•Fixed Run Log Iteration Steps setting for Secant DLL. (63002)

•Added a new DLL dcsTlDraftAngle to support Draft angle Tolerances. (62693)

•No DLLs wil be shown in any MTM DLL dialogs  if there is no DLL loaded. (62700)

•Fixed a Bug in dcsProjPtOnFeat User Dll. (63858)

•Fixed Secant dll not using the spec limits instead of always going to 0. (64380)

•The list of DLLs (dropdown) in the Run DLL dialog was updated, removing SimuRSSCase function, which is already available in the Run Analysis function. (64413)

•The input error message is moved to Run Log during Nominal Build only (before reporting to log file for each build) when using SimuMacro.(63146)

DOE (DOE_Form.DLL)

•Fixed a crash when using Factorialize through the DOE Form DLL, added a protection to allow the dialog or the calculation to continue working correctly. (63717).

•Corrected the DCS_CFG_SETTING (Config setting: Multi-Thread) to correctly report results using Thread 0-4. (63950)

•The DOE Form output now also adds Nominal Value; PP; Ppk; Range; TotalOut; DPMO; Est Type; Est Low; Est High; Est Total Out; Est DPMO outputs. These options must be activated in the Analysis Options of the Simulation Window to be viewed as outputs. (54540)

•DOE now supports Kinematic Simulation, Multi-core and HLM and GeoFactor. (62860)

•dcsRunDoE dialog View Input data and View Output data default opens in Excel, Ctrl + click will open in Notepad. (63042)

•dcsRunDoE dialog Factorialize Window has been updated. (63044)

•dcsRunDoE dialog Tools menu is updated. (63043)

•DOE Form Options Dialog will now support 8 threads input. (64016)

•The DCS DOE outputs raw for Simulation, rss for Sensitivity, and csv for GeoFactor. All these can be opened with Excel (64087)

•The Reload command in dcsDoeViewer will update the doe.csv file. (64199)

Results

•Datum Shift using Primary and Tertiary locators from the internal gauge, caused GeoFactor to show larger 6 Sigma and 6STD values. (64511)

•Updated the Range of the HLM to display the Absolute range, if a scale is applied. (59347)

•HLM and GeoFactor correctly show only one contributor for grouped features in GD&T. (60443)

•The Sum of Remaining 0 Contributors = 0.00% is available in all Geo Factor runs when saved as csv file. (64320)

Report

•Enhanced creating an HTML with French characters within MTM names. (#64330)

•The Simulation window and the Report will show special characters that have been defined in the MTM names. (Example: #%&@$&) (62883).

•If a specstudy is empty, running the report will no more throw the warning message in the middle of the process blocking the report from completing, instead the warning message will be listed in the Log file after the Report generation is completed. (63832)

•Changed Cover Page, Model Summary, Part Notes, and MTM Notes to save in UTF-16 (wide character) format so that special characters display correctly. (63280)

•Fixed tables in part notes, mtm notes, cover page, and model summary so that they are not always right justified. (63279)

•Added tooltips to columns headers in html report.

•Added support to PowerPoint sensitivity table to use the header and index to populate values from Excel. This means the header and index values must be input to slide before running the macro. (63892)

•The folder name that contains Global Displacement files under the report directory is changed from 'Global displacement' to 'Global_displacement'. (64162)

•Was able to goto Contributors page from the Geofactor Results Report Page. (64383)

•Fixed the reporting issue where, Tot-OUT% not appearing in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel reports when L-OUT% and H-OUT% are not shown. (64356)

Validation

•Added Validation warning for Group Pattern Positional tolerances/GD&T that have more than 90 degree angle from the first axis direction. (57661)

•Added Validation warning for Rigid Body moves (Step Plane, Six Plane, etc.), if the moves are using the invalid Primary features in the Object or Target fields. (61189).

•Added a warning message to notify user the inactive Tolerances and Measures when running analysis in the SBS Dialog. (63691)

•Fixed an issue where Validate would display an error, if a user defined a Datum on a Feature Slot/Tab. (64112)

•Datums (GD&T) will no longer show as a contributor. (62858)

•"Check for Duplicates in Validation" check box from Validation is removed. "Validate Model During Assembly Check" will now control Duplicated Name Auto Correction as well as other validations before running GeoFactor. (63733)

File Export/Import

•Saving a 3DCS file: .wtx, gf2, HLM and HST will check the file size of the drive. If the drive has lower than 500MB of space, 3DCS will show a warning that the drive is running out of space.

•Improved Import .wtx to utilize internal ID so Points\Features and MTM can renamed and still properly import. (63054)

•3DCS now supports Multi-byte UTF-8 characters. (55232)

•Updated the csv file. (63045)

•Fixed an issue with Reading from Excel: when the Excel document wasn't open, or if 3DCS had to go through the File Explorer to open the Excel file, which didn't update 3DCS. (64088)

•Save a CSV file from GeoFactor will show the % sign between the quotations, when showing in Notepad. (62921)

•Fixed Run Log formatting for iterations. (63001)

•Resolved wrong feature linking issue when importing wtx File. (64366)

Configuration

•VA Models can be built and can run analysis in MVA configuration.

•The Step Plane move is removed and Six Plane move is added for Virtual Designer. (64262)

Documentation

•Updated the Help Link for Combination Measure to always open the Combination Measure help page, regardless of selected Mode. (62912)

•Updated information about Multi-Thread in the Help Manual. (64385).

Points and Features

•Enhanced 3DCS when handling edges; the software will no longer crash when an edge is defined in 3DCS, and the geometry changed removing or moving the edge feature. (63663)

•Users can now convert CAD Points created from NX and into 3DCS. User can decide to create either a Feature Point or a DCS Point. (61687)

•Fixed an issue with Point Group Icon and Linking to feature issue. (63274)

•Slot/Tab size display will now get saved along with the model. (62397)

•Fixed an issue with Importing a WTX and Feature Linking Wizard. If surface was created in the model and imported from the WTX, 3DCS will now link the two features. (64225)

GD&T

•Users will now be able to utilize the Directed dimension in NX, which will create a Directed Dimension in 3DCS. (64256)

•PMI Names except for dimensions can now be extracted into 3DCS. IF PMI names are not given then 3DCS uses its default Names. (63559)

•Added Envelope rule to the new GD&T dialog which will be activated/Deactivated depending on the GD&T standard set in the preference dialog. (62587)

•If the NX Dimension Created with "Directed Origin", 3DCS will extract it as Dimensioning Location and will also set the Orgin Surface correctly from NX. (63599)

•Angle Tolerance from PMI can now be extracted into 3DCS as Angle Size GD&T. (64628)

Dialogs

•Updated Preference Dialog. (62463)

•Improved the Points list dialog to show the entire value when editing the XYZ or ijk fields (61753)

•Improved MTM List dialog display by adding icons along with the Names.(62427)

•Improved the Copy Data dialog by adding a scroll bar to the bottom of each field, if point names are longer than the display. (62792)

•Typing in values with periods in any dialog will automatically convert to comma if run in German Mode. (63498)

•After sorting the list by Name or Type in Find/Replace, the [Save View], [Show Views] and [Delete Views] buttons will now be available (63333).

•MTM Information columns will keep the same size while editing another dialog. (62753)

•Changed "Joint Type" to "Motion Type" in Mechanical Motion move dialog.(62940)

•Copy the last MTM from MTM List dialog will no more scroll the list to the top (63366)

•Added Spec Study option to the Copy Data Dialog. (62455)

•Line Angle Measure will now allow Points, Surfaces and Edge selection. (62468)

•Change Type option in the move dialog will now only show the applicable move types for the selected Configuration. (64391)

•Corrected how MTM Information would display unit. When a unit is specified in the Preferences (Display Length Units). If "No Units" is selected, no units will be displayed. Previously, 3DCS will display "Unknown" as units. (62794)

File Export/Import

•Improved the performance when Importing a WTX file into 3DCS NX platform. (60804)

•Improved Importing 3DCS files (WTX) into NX, when the NX parts have been removed or deleted. (64209)

•Older versions of 3DCS for NX no longer open models saved in newer versions. (60475)

•Fixed an issue with Importing a WTX and Feature Linking Wizard. If surface was created in the model and imported from the WTX, 3DCS will now link the two features. (64225)

Tree

•Added a setting in the Preference dialog to select the Name column from NX to use it in the 3DCS Tree. (63472)

•Added Hide/Show Entity buttons in the Model Navigator to quickly hide/show entities from the Tree. (63035)

•The tree will only refreshes whenever needed. Unwanted Tree refresh is blocked which improves the performance speed. (62990)

•Right Click menu pop up speed has now been increased. Now there will not be any delay in opening the right click menu from 3DCS Tree. (63004)

•Point Groups will now be created with a unique name, if multiple Point Groups are created. (63339)

•The Tree icons for Points get updated instantly on any changes. (63415)

•Using Copy data to copy MTMs between parts will update the information in the Tree instantly. (63107)

•Deleting any entity will no more Update the Entire Tree. This improves the performance speed. (63672)

Update

•Added more options within the Update GD&T dialog: Extract From and Push To. 3DCS GD&T will extract GD&T and Push GD&T information to NX PMI.(63368)

•3DCS GD&T will now Update the PMI in NX, such as Range, Offset, Projected value, and the Material condition.

•Fixed an issue using Update Model twice in one session caused 3DCS to crash. (63871).

Related List

•Related List Function which associate measures with other measures and points to view their relationship after running the analysis is now added to the software. (61128)

Display

•Updated expand and collapse icons in right-click menu to match icons in toolbars. (61157)

•Mesh will no longer hide/show automatically when opening and closing dialogs. (62795)

•The Model Navigator and the Graphics will not blink and also the time taken is reduced when large wtx files are imported. (62458)

•The columns in the HLM now has a set width. Each column won't go beyond the Analysis Screen width. (64339)

•The 3DCS Selection Mesh color will now match NX selection Color (62174)

•Show Preselection Mesh is added in NX, which will display the tree mouse hover entities in the Graphics. (63935)

•Fixed mesh being hidden after deselecting an item in the tree.

3DCS Data

•Fixed a crash when the model is Built and Delete Unused Data is used. (62699)

Preference

•Changed text in Preferences from "Calculate Failed Assemblies" to "Retain Failed Assemblies in Statistics". (63626))

•Changed Display Digits to Precision in the Preference Dialog. (64371)

Batch Processor

•3DCS will correctly create a WTX file when loading the Batch Processor UI. (63886).

Results

•HLM and GeoFactor correctly show only one contributor for grouped features in GD&T.(60443)

Configuration

•3DCS -NX will now be available for NX Continual Release 1847.

•Added Virtual Designer(VD) and Mechanical Variation Analyst(MVD) Configurations. These settings are added under the Configuration Tab in the Preference Dialog. (62979)

•Added version number of NX and Creo to Model Information and Analysis Settings of reports. (63467)

Export and Importing:

•Importing a WTX will apply the Part name to both the Instance and Part names in CATIA V5. (63147).

Points

•Dragging Point Labels will now be saved with the new position. (62799)

Preferences

•The GD&T standard can be set from the General Tab of the 3DCS Preferences. (64595).

•Cylindrical Threshold value can now be changed to be greater than 360. The user will need to hold down the CTRL key while pressing OK for the "Angle Greater than 360" warning message. (63345)

•Added new functionality to show Instance Name, Part Reference Name and Descriptions in 3DCS with Alias Display. (60504)

GD&T

•Fixed issue of creating features twice when extracting product FT&A. (63188)

•Fixed an issue with extracting GD&T on multi-instanced product extracting all of the GD&T to the same product. (63090)

•Added Auto Sort in the GD&T Dialog, arranges the GD&T based on how 3DCS will check each tolerance. (62784)

Dialogs

•Enhanced the Feature Linking wizard to allow Points to be projected based on the Point's UV value or Projected from it's current position on the surface. (62387)

•3DCS will now auto correct (0,0,0) to (0,0,1) in the Size Tolerance for Coordinate Points. (63525)

•Fixed a crash: when a user creates either a Combination measure or adding a measure in a User-DLL Measure, 3DCS will not automatically select the measure being edited. (63811)

•Fixed the GD&T, GeoFactor, AAO, SBS, ReportGen, Userdlls dialogs from getting hidden behind the V5 Window. (64353)

•Fixed crash when sorting Spec Study Items by name. (62865)

•Closing the deviation control dialog by clicking "X" will no longer cause the software to stop working. (63520).

•The Combination Measure dialog will no more add that combination measure by default to measure list (63819)

Display

•Added new functionality to show Instance Name, Part Reference Name and Descriptions in 3DCS with Alias Display. (60504)

•3DCS will now use the CATIA's selection color to highlight the Feature Mesh. (62176)

•3DCS Workbench updates the name depending on the configuration settings. (63497)

•Update GD&T icons to make them easier to see on any background color. (63491)

•Fixed the Issue where labels for MTM features being hidden behind the point labels for V5 R20. (61191)

•Resolved Feature labels moving off screen during Deviation issue. (62588)

•Added Object and Target labels as well as direction arrows to the Two Point List measure in Catia. (64407)

Tree

•Enhanced 3DCS when Importing a WTX into a new Product and using Replace: Add, Update, and Delete option, improving the stability of 3DCS and the Model Tree. (63291)

•Improved the stability of the 3DCS tree, when making Assembly order changes in the CATIA V5 tree. (63143)

•Keyboard "Delete" Key will no long delete parts from 3DCS Tree.

•3DCS Tree position is saved on saving the model.

•3DCS tree icons will be updated after Reading from Excel. (60835)

•Changing part names and updating model will cause the 3DCS tree to collapse then expand to refresh part names. (62113)

Simulation

•Corrected how the Simulation window updated the position of the CAD by using Show Min or Show Max. (64341)

•Fixed the Simulation crash with Mechanical constraints. Updated the internal solver software, which enhanced using Datum Target points not being directly on the surface with the move. (62973)

File IO

•Improved support with multi-byte characters. (63975)

Reports

•Fixed issue with report showing incorrect label colors. (61760)

Update GD&T

•Fixed an issue with extracting GD&T on multi-instanced product extracting all of the GD&T to the same product. (63090)

Features

•Update Geometry will update the feature correctly without the need of changing the minimum segment number. (63278)

Spec Study

•Fixed a storage issue with Spec Studies. (63793)