Geometric cost drivers

The Geometric Cost Drivers (GCDs) pane shows information about the GCDs available for each component and provides tools to edit current GCDs. For more information, refer to Geometric Cost Drivers.

You can display GCD labels for the highlighted GCDs in the Component Viewer. In Direct Integration mode, you can also display GCD labels in the CAD application.

Show GCD labels in the component viewer

  1. Click the Analysis button in the Component Viewer tool bar.

  1. Show GCD Labels.

  2. Click on a GCD in the GCD pane. In the Component Viewer, the GCD highlighted and the GCD label is displayed.

Show GCD labels in the CAD application

  1. In your CAD application, select aPriori > Show GCD labels.

  1. In the aPriori Professional, click on a GCD in the GCD pane. You can see the GCD label for this GCD in the CAD application.