Viewing options

The View menu gives you the following options that you can use to you can create different views of the Routing Selection window:

  • Show Routings with Incomplete Cost

    • If this option is checked, routings that costed with warnings and available routings that were not costed are displayed in addition to the routings that were costed without warnings.

  • Show Uncosted Processes within Visible Routings

    • If this option is checked, all uncosted nodes within the routing are displayed. A node might be uncosted if the process it is representing is not required for manufacturing the component or has been manually excluded from the routing.

  • If both options are unchecked, only the routings that have been costed without warnings are displayed.

Understanding the legend

Nodes

Click the Legend button to display the explanatory list of node types.

Icon

Description

A beige background indicates that this node represents a choice between two or more alternative processes. Selecting a row that contains this type of node causes the system to auto-select between the underlying alternative processes.

A solid border indicates that this node is marked as required. A feasibility rule failure at one of these nodes an entire routing alternative to fail.

A dashed border indicates that this node is marked as optional. It may be included or excluded a right-click menu.

A clear background indicates that this node was not evaluated by the system in the last costing event. This is either because of a feasibility rule failure, because the node has been excluded from the routing by a user, or because the node was not required for the manufacturing of the component.

A green border and user-override symbol indicate that the routing was customized, and this node was added. It may be removed from the routing right-click menu.

Node status icons

Icons

Description

The node succeeded it passed feasibility evaluation.

A yellow status icon on a node indicates that the node passed feasibility evaluation but has some uncosted GCDs. Click the icon to see which GCDs failed to cost.

A yellow status icon over a GCD icon in the Cost column indicates that this routing, although costed, has some uncosted GCDs associated with it. Hover the cursor over the icon to see what GCDs failed to cost.

A red status icon indicates that the node failed to cost. Click on the indicator to see why the process failed feasibility evaluation.

This node has Process Setup Options (PSOs) that can be customized by the user. Click the hammer or right-click the node and select Process Setup Options.

User override: The routing customized.

Expandable nodes

Nodes with a plus sign ( ) are expandable. When you click the plus sign, the next level of detail is displayed can expand vertically or horizontally

  • Alternative nodes expand vertically displaying two or more new lines underneath the node. Each line represents an alternative routing available for the node. You can select only one routing.

  • Conjunctive nodes expand horizontally, displaying all available options in one line underneath the node. You can manually include one or more options into the routing.