When you open a component in aPriori and perform the initial costing, an initial cost scenario for the component is created and displayed on a component scenario tab and within the component’s Scenarios folder on the Navigation pane.
Creating a Scenario
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Activate the component scenario tab that you want to use as the starting point for the new scenario.
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Select Scenario > Save as > Scenario from the menu bar. For all components, you can select Scenario & Children to do a “deep” save, which saves the current scenario and its children scenarios. You can also access these operations by right-clicking the scenario name in the navigation pane.
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Enter a unique name for the scenario in the Name field.
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(Optional) Enter a description of your changes in the Description field. If the source scenario has a Description field defined, that text automatically populates the Description field on the Save As dialog.
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Click OK to display the scenario in a new component scenario tab and the component’s Scenarios folder on the Navigation pane.
Editing a Scenario
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Activate the scenario tab that you want to edit.
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Make the changes.
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Click the
button to save the changes.
Saving a scenario
After making changes to a scenario you can do the following:
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Save your changes in the same scenario by clicking the
button or selecting Scenario > Save > Scenario. You can also do a “deep” save by selecting Scenario & Children. -
Enter a name for the new scenario.
Working with initial scenarios
When you open a component in aPriori and perform the initial costing, an initial cost scenario for the component is created and displayed on a component scenario tab and within the component’s Scenarios folder on the Navigation pane. The initial scenario is shown with the name Initial appended. (You can change the default name that aPriori uses for initial scenarios by selecting Tools > User Preferences > Default Scenario Name.
As you make changes to the component’s geometry or manufacturing process, you can save the changes in multiple cost scenarios.