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Geometry or Cost Engine Changes that Could Impact Configured Digital Factories

The following changes might impact costing, even for Digital Factories that use earlier cost model versions.

  • Contact Region Extraction for Large Assemblies (impacts performance only): This release improves the performance of Contact Region extraction. In this release, the GCD extraction time for assemblies with hundreds of components decreases significantly compared to the previous release. The amount of improvement for any given assembly may vary, based on factors including the number of components and the geometry of the individual components. Note that this change provides no benefit if Contact Region extraction is disabled for your deployment via the site variable enableContactAnalysis.

    In addition, this release introduces two site variables that can be used to limit GCD extraction times when appropriate:

    • maxNumberOfPartsForContactAnalysis (default value is 1000): aPriori does not compute any contact regions, if the total number of parts in the assembly exceeds this threshold.
    • enableLowerLevelComponentContactRegions : If set to true (the default), Contact Region GCDs are extracted for all components in the assembly tree. If set to false, aPriori creates ContactRegion GCDs only between top-level parts and subcomponents.

Bug Fixes or Small Improvements to Prior Cost Model Versions

The following changes might impact costing for Digital Factories that use earlier cost model versions.

  • NO IMPACT

Cost Model Changes that Do Not Affect Configured Digital Factories

The following changes do not affect costings with Digital Factories that use earlier cost model versions. The changes are available only in the latest cost model version.

  • NO IMPACT