What’s New Summary

New Design Guidance Framework: In this release, manufacturability issues are now are classified as Critical, Major, or Minor, enabling you to easily identify the most important issues to address. You also can tailor guidance to your own design standards by adjusting any issue type's severity classifications or associated thresholds. The enhanced design guidance is available in the latest process models for Plastic Molding, Forging, and Sheet Metal. Upcoming releases will provide this enhanced guidance in additional process groups. Customers who are using older versions of the manufacturing process models are encouraged to use aPriori Baseline Digital Factories to explore this new prioritized Design Guidance.

Reviewing Issues and Issue Types by Severity: The Design Guidance tab now displays a summary of issue types and issues, classified by severity. Additional controls allow users to view the definition of a severity classification and to review issues with specific part geometry.

Manufacturability Issue Summary Across Multiple Parts: The Part Details, Assembly Details, and Rollup Details tables now display a Design Guidance section. This enables you to assess the number and severity of manufacturability issues across a set of components in one view.

Easily Configure Design Guidance: aP Pro now allows Digital Factory administrators to enable or disable specific design guidance issue types. Digital Factory administrators also can modify the severity classification of an issue or modify the criteria that trigger the issue, in order to align with a company’s specific design standards.

See Improved Estimates and Cut Depths for Enlarged Pocket GCDs in 2-Model Machining: in the Machining section.

Comprehensive Display of Milling Cutting Assumptions and Results: The Machining manufacturing process model (CMV 370) now displays standard cutting assumptions and outputs for all rough-milling and bulk-milling operations across a wide range of GCDs,. This enables users to validate cycle time calculations and the inputs to those calculations and olki0verride assumptions if desired.

Centralized Display of Machining Operation Details: Manufacturing process groups that include primary or secondary machining now provide a Machining Details dialog which provides a comprehensive view of the operation assignment, tool selection, and cutting parameter decisions determined by aPriori, making it easy for expert users to review these outputs for all machined GCDs in one central location.

Improved Face-Milling Tool Size Selection: The Machining process model (CMV 370) corrects some issues in which aPriori selected a Flat End Mill or Face Mill tool that was larger than is generally available in practice or larger than was appropriate for the part size.

Improved Side-Milling Tool Size Selections for Slot GCDs: The latest version of the Machining process model (CMV 370) corrects an occasional issue in which the side-milling tool selected to finish-mill the walls of a slot was larger than some internal corner radii of the slot.

Improved Cut Depth and Cycle Time Estimates for Rough Milling of Holes: Previously, aPriori erroneously used a radial cut depth of 1 (equal to the tool radius) when rough milling large-diameter SimpleHole GCDs. This is corrected in the latest release of the Machining manufacturing process model (CMV 370).

Improved Estimates and Cut Depths for Enlarged Pocket GCDs in 2-Model Machining: The latest Machining manufacturing process model (CMV 370) was updated to improve the estimates for rough-milling pocket features that are present in a cast or forged part but then enlarged by machining in the finished part.

More Control over Stock Selection logic in Sheet Metal Process Groups: The latest versions of the Sheet Metal process groups provide additional control for customers wishing to configure the logic related to selecting the sheet or coil stock to be used for a given part. The behavior of the baseline out-of-the-box logic has not changed. Customers who already have configured stock selection logic in sheet metal process groups will need to make minor updates to these configurations when upgrading their manufacturing process models to these latest versions.

Updated Pricing for “Plate” Stocks in the Sheet Metal Process Groups: The 2025-12 RDLs contain updated pricing for Sheet Metal stocks that are 6.00 mm thick or greater. The unit cost (cost per unit mass) for these thicker stock items now is around 24% higher than the cost for thinner gauges of the same material, and it matches the unit cost for plate stocks in the Stock Machining process group.

See also Design Guidance.

The 2025-12 Regional Data Libraries (RDLs) contain updates to labor rates, overhead rates, and material rates. They also contain updated pricing for Sheet Metal stocks that are 6.00 mm thick or greater.

See the Regional Data Libraries Release Notes Version 2025-12 for more information.

Supported CAD System Versions: This release adds support for Creo 12, NX 2506, and Inventor 2026. aPriori no longer officially supports Creo 8, NX 2212 series, and Inventor 2022.

Pending De-Support of MySQL 8.0: aPriori 2025 R1 SP3 is the last release of aPriori to support use of the MySQL 8.0 database version. The next release of aPriori will support MySQL 8.4 instead.

Export to STEP AP242 Format from Plug-ins: All Analyze in aPriori plug-ins except the Creo plug-in now can export to STEP AP242 format, as well as other STEP formats and the native CAD format.

Plug-in Workflow Improvements: The Analyze in aPriori plug-ins now allow you to set the company code during the plug-in installation, so end users do not have to remember it during login. Additionally, the dedicated browser which is launched by the plug-ins now supports multiple tabs. Users can more easily keep track of different components and scenarios they are analyzing in aP Design, as each now is displayed in a separate tab of the same browser window instead of having multiple open browser windows.