What's New in 3DCS?
8.0.0.2 - February 2024
Below are a list of changes, enhancements and resolved issues based on the entire 3DCS suite or a specific CAD system available with 3DCS. Please review the list of changes and don't hesitate to ask about a specific change.
Any text written with a teal highlight refers to any Simulation Output change. In other words, some calculation changes were made to either a distribution, a measurement output or DLL result. This could result in minor changes to a previous Model Simulation output.
What's New pages:
Advanced Analyzer and Optimizer
Compliant Modeler
Mechanical Modeler
Visualization Export
Batch Processor
Introduction
3DCS Variation Analyst is a powerful dimensional analysis tool that predicts the amounts of variation and highlights the causes for part and process variation in multi-stage assemblies. It empowers manufacturers to prevent build problems by quickly evaluating part tolerances, assembly tooling and sequencing ahead of time in the product development stage, so that desired fit and function specifications are achieved in production.
➢Overview of 3DCS
➢Building a 3DCS model using the Variation Analyst tool
➢Learn about Rigid Body moves
➢Available Functions
➢Learn how to use Variation Analyst with one of the available tutorials:
oAnalyst Tutorial: Learn about creating Rigid Body moves on basic and complex features, adding GD&T, viewing Monte Carlo, GeoFactor, and the Contributor Analysis
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Dialogs
•The offset value in the Arc Tolerance dialog will now be displayed with the units. (73336)
•Fixed a crash when a feature was deleted, while some dialogs still had the feature listed but showing the deleted feature as "NO SELECTION". (73453)
User-DLL
•The dcu_MvTranslate2PtstoCloses routine, in the X-Form DLL, will now require the Enhanced Feature Measure License or the Mechanical License (MM). (73531) |
Creo useful topics: See more topics on Best Practices and FAQ on the DCS Community.
•General Information
•Creating GD&T with PMI.
General
•The SMALauncher can be used with Abaqus2023 inside StiffGen to call the solver and create matrices. (73504)
•Added the option to switch the display driver from Direct X to OpenGL for the Animation Accelerator to address opening the Animation Accelerator and only showing a blank or gray screen. Switching the driver will require the user to close and reopen the dialog for the new driver to be used. (73283) |
NX useful topics: See more topics on Best Practices and FAQ on the DCS Community.
•General Information
•Creating GD&T with PMI.
General
•Fixed a crash when deleting points that were copied to other parts. (73410)
Model Navigator:
•Fixed an issue when copying tolerances to another part or the root. The tolerances will correctly be shown in the Model Navigator and in the Information dialog. (73421)
•Added the option to switch the display driver from Direct X to OpenGL for the Animation Accelerator to address opening the Animation Accelerator and only showing a blank or gray screen. Switching the driver will require the user to close and reopen the dialog for the new driver to be used. (73283)
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Issues Resolved (SOLIDWORKS)
SOLIDWORKS useful topics: See more topics on Best Practices and FAQ on the DCS Community.
•General Information
•Creating GD&T with DimXPert or MBD.
•Added the option to switch the display driver from Direct X to OpenGL for the Animation Accelerator to address opening the Animation Accelerator and only showing a blank or gray screen. Switching the driver will require the user to close and reopen the dialog for the new driver to be used. (73283) |
Issues Resolved (CATIA V5)
CATIA V5 useful topics: See more topics on Best Practices and FAQ on the DCS Community.
•General Information
•Creating GD&T with FT&A.
General
•Using the dcu_MvTranslate2PtstoCloses routine from X-Form DLL will not cause a crash. This was caused by the routine using the enhanced Feature Measure option but not correctly loading it. This routine will now require the Mechanical License (MM) to use the dcu_MvTranslate2PtstoCloses routine. (73531)
•Added the Select Color function back to 3DCS for CATIA V5 platform. Users will be able to change the color of the mesh of a part, Point or specific feature. Go to the Toolbar Customization page to find out how to add the function to the toolbar. (73512)
•Fixed a crash on mouse middle click, when the option to close dialogs with middle mouse click is on, in the Model Navigator. (73517)
Features
•Fixed an issue from a previous change that would adjust the UV plane to support more complex features, which also caused to change the point location. (73524)
Dialog:
•Fixed how the Fast Point function in the Edit Point dialog creates Coordinate Points on surfaces. The Coordinate Point will correctly create a Coordinate Point and not a Feature Point. (73291) |
Issues Resolved (Multi-CAD)