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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
Copy Entire Table
Copy
Paste
- (Edit menu only)Copy applies to the currently selected row(s).
- Copy Entire Table captures all contents of the window to paste into a spreadsheet or other document.
- Paste copies clipboard data into the 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.
See Bulk Costing Using the UI
Edit Production Info
Edit Administrative Info
Edit Quoted Cost
See Using the Cost Object Info Window.
Edit Process Routing See Edit a Process Routing.
Edit Cost Overrides Summary See Cost overrides summary dialog.
Edit Process Setup Options See Edit Process Setup Options.
Make Official
Undo 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)
Make Inactive (Scenario)
Specify the selected scenario is automatically updated with CAD changes. See Work with Scenarios.
>Extract GCDs
Do Not 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
Undo 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
Undo 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 aPrioriCost Model Guidefor more details.
Ignore Excel Inputs
Undo 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 Step 2: 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.