• aPriori Professional Version 2021 R1 Release Notes
  • Documentation
  • What’s New – Quick Summary
  • What’s New – The Details
  • General Updates
    • Name Change: “Digital Factory” replaces “Virtual Production Environment (VPE)”
      • Known Limitations
  • PCB Fabrication and PCB Assembly
    • New Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Fabrication Cost Model
      • Known Limitations
    • Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) Enhancements
  • Plastic Molding Cost Model Enhancements
    • Improved Accuracy for Cooling Time estimates
    • Improved Minimum Wall Thickness computation
    • Improved Required Clamp Force estimation
    • Improved Display of Part Thickness via Design to Cost Thickness Dialog
    • New Mold Tooling Layout display in Plastic Molding – Tooling Report
    • Number of Tools Required added to Plastic-Molding Tooling report
    • More accurate Injection Molding Tooling Cost estimates, especially for “cup-shaped” part types
    • New Rotary Stack Injection Molding Machines
    • New Horizontal Injection Molding Machines Configured to Reflect Use of Separate Mold Bases
    • Accessibility Visualization for Undercut Features
    • Improvements to Undercut Geometry Recognition and corresponding Side Action Tooling Estimation
  • Sheet Metal Cost Model Enhancements
    • New Design to Cost guidance for stampings and enhanced guidance for soft-tooled parts
    • Laser routing renamed “CO2 Laser”
    • Material Utilization Calculations – New Options for Low-Batch Size Parts and Increased Configuration Flexibility
    • Improved Estimates of Blank Size for Parts with Reduced Thickness
    • Improved Recognition and Display of Simultaneous Bending Operations
    • Tooling spreadsheet reports for sheet metal stampings include Tool Life and Number of Tools Required
    • Updated Overhead Rates for Sheet Metal Press Machines
  • Machining Cost Model Enhancements
    • New Polygonal Feature Recognition, Polygon Turning and Rotary Broaching
    • Support for One-sided Dovetail Slots and Modified-Dovetail Slots
    • Updated Cost Accounting for 2-Model Machining
    • Improved Recognition of Lettering Features Prevents Unnecessary DTC “Sharp Corner” Warning
  • Assembly and Welding Cost Model Enhancements
    • Ultrasonic Welding now available in Assembly process group
    • Updated TIG Welding Travel Speed Data
    • Improved Behavior for Assemblies with Missing Sub-Component CAD files
  • Casting Cost Model Enhancements
    • Casting cost model now supports Titanium materials
    • Investment Casting Tooling cost estimates account for Tool Life
    • Improved extraction of Inner Diameter (“RingedHole”) geometry for Castings, Forgings, Machined parts and more
    • (Improved Display of Part Thickness via Design to Cost Thickness Dialog
    • Accessibility Visualization for Undercut Features
  • Forging Cost Model Enhancements
    • Improved extraction of Inner Diameter (“RingedHole”) geometry for Castings, Forgings, Machined parts and more
  • Surface Treatment Cost Model Enhancements
    • New Powder Coat Conveyor System cost model
    • New Part Marking cost models – Dot Peen and Laser Engraving
    • New Cadmium Plating cost model
    • New process setup options for Manual Paint process
    • New process setup option Percentage of Surface Area that is Electroplated
  • Usability Enhancements
    • Independently Select Production and Tool Shop Digital Factories
    • Improved Tracking of User Overrides
      • Known Limitations
    • New scenario search criteria “Created by”
    • aPriori License Manager Service Configuration Settings for Setup Wizard
  • System Administration Enhancements
    • New Database Connection Speed Monitor
  • Digital Factory (VPE) Management and Configuration
    • Material Pricing Scope and Maintenance Enhancements
    • Delete Old/Inactive Regional Data Libraries
  • aPriori 2021-04 Regional Data Libraries
  • Platform and CAD Support Updates
    • NX 1953 Support
    • SolidWorks 2021 Semantic PMI Support
    • Planned De-Support of MySQL 5.6
  • Language Support Updates
    • To change the number of decimal places by changing the Decimal Place Override value:
  • Issues Resolved in aPriori Professional 2021 R1
  • Known Issues and Workarounds
  • Upgrading to aPriori Professional 2021 R1
  • Contacting aPriori Customer Support

aPriori Professional Version 2021 R1 Release Notes

Contacting aPriori Customer Support