The Issues tab identifies Geometric Cost Drivers (GCDs) that created issues with analysis, which made it difficult (Design Warnings), time consuming, or impossible (Design Failures) to manufacture the component using the selected material, Process Group, and Digital Factory.
Issues can include GCDs that:
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Violate manufacturing standards
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Are physically impossible to manufacture
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Require excessive cycle time
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Require special finishing processes
To expose the types of issues in the issue categories and the types of GCDs that have the issues, expand the issue nodes:
For this example:
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Seven GCDs have Hole - Non-Orthogonal issues in the Hole category.
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Five of the GCDs that have Hole - Non-Orthogonal issues are complex holes and two are simple holes.
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No issues are critical (as shown by the yellow severity icon,
), so these GCDs make it difficult, but not impossible, to manufacture the component.
View More Guidance
If a light bulb button,
, appears next to a type of issue, you can click it to open a dialog that includes additional information, including graphics, that can help you understand and resolve that type of issue.
For example, when you click a light bulb button for a Hole - Non-Orthogonal issue for a scenario that uses the Sheet Metal process group, the dialog that opens contains images and a description of the issue and potential mitigation actions.
View Issue Details
To see more information about an issue and to highlight the affected GCDs in the 3D Viewer, click a row in the table.
Reviewing GCDs with Issues
The GCDs that have the issue are highlighted in the Viewer, with a brief description of the issue in the right pane of the panel. For example, the description for the Hole – Non-Orthogonal issue indicates that non-orthogonal holes can result and positioning and tolerance problems:
To turn highlighting on and off for all GCDs that have the issue, select or deselect the box in the table header. To turn highlighting on and off for certain GCDs, select or deselect, respectively, the check boxes in the rows for those GCDs. For example, in this figure, because the check box in the row for SimpleHole:10 is selected, the simple hole 10 and orthoganol surface are highlighted in the Viewer.
Tip: To better examine GCDs in the Viewer, use the Home, Zoom all, Analysis, Draw Mode, View, and Sectioning tools in the Viewer Control panel.
For quantitative issues, the table contains the Current value and the Suggested value. For this example, 12 edge GCDs have Blank – Sharp Corner issues.
The description and data in the panel indicates that the issue occurs because the Current value for the corner radius, 0.00 mm, is too small and suggests that the designer increase the corner radius to a value that is equal to or greater than 2.00 mm.