Bulk Costing Menu Commands
The Bulk Costing & Analysis window provides the following commands and features on both the right-click context menu and the Edit menu. Some of these features are also available as fields in Bulk Costing tabular user.
Menu Command |
Description |
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Copy Entire Table |
See Editing bulk costing inputs. |
Create This Row |
Create a new row in the Bulk Costing & Analysis UI using an existing row as a starting point. |
Edit Production Info |
For Production Info, Administrative Info, and Quoted Cost, see Using the Cost Object Info window. For Process Routing, see Edit a Process Routing. For Cost Overrides, see Cost overrides summary dialog. For Process Setup Options, see Edit Process Setup Options. |
Make Official |
Specify whether the selected scenario is to be made the scenario that by default gets rolled into its parent assembly or roll-up. See Work with Scenarios. |
Make Active (Scenario) |
Specify the selected scenario is automatically updated with CAD changes. See Work with Scenarios. |
>Extract GCDs |
Controls whether to re-extract the latest geometry of the CAD model. If this geometry is unchanged since the last time the part was costed and saved in the aP Pro database, then you can choose to not extract GCDs - this reduces the time required to cost the component. |
Deep Cost |
Set whether deep costing is enabled. See Scenario support fields. |
Edit Processing Input Rule... |
Specify how aPriori should handle existing scenarios. See Scenario support fields. |
Ignore |
If a component scenario is set to "ignore", the component scenario will not be costed even if it is a sub-component of a deep costing assembly. See the section "A note about Ignore, Hide, and their effect on costing" in the aPriori Cost Model Guide for more details. |
Ignore Excel Inputs |
Controls whether fields in the Bulk Costing & Analysis UI are updated from the Excel input file or can be edited locally. See Edit Bulk Cost Group Components. |
Select Image File |
Available on the context menu only. Specify the full path of a 2D image file to associate with a CAD-less (virtual) part or assembly. See Associating an image without a CAD file. |