Managing Multi-Clearance Settings

You can specify different clearance values according to your defined rules, and apply administrative locks to allow for company-wide enforcement, to validate various robotics scenarios. Rules are defined for each component (the robotic system (gun/robot) and others (product/jig)), as well as the context where the clearance rules are applied (during Spot operation and/or Robot motion).

  1. Open the reference tool device.


  2. From the Motion Controller section of the action bar, click Tool Part Grouping .
    The Tooling Part Grouping dialog box appears, and the root device is automatically selected and appears as the Selected Resource.

    Four groups are available, Gun Body, Gun Arm, Gun Tip, and Gun End. These correspond to the groups defined in Me > Preferences > Simulation > Digital Manufacturing Apps Common Services > Manufacturing Simulation Apps Common Services > Resource Clearances, and the color used for each group are the those specified in Clearance Grouping Colors.

    Parts can be grouped in a manner like the following:

  3. You can select parts that are not yet assigned to any group, or modify the content of already selected groups, by clicking the respective Group Content cells and then selecting the parts.

    Once selected, the parts are highlighted with that group’s color and are listed in the Group Content cell. A prefix indicates the number of parts selected.



  4. To remove parts from a selected Group Content group, select the corresponding parts in the Selected Group's Part(s) list and click Clear Selection.

    After a part is removed from a group, it will become uncolored again and is available for selection in other groups.

  5. You can start working on a different group by selecting the Group Content cell for the desired group.

    All geometry will become uncolored again, but you can only select parts that have not already been assigned to a different group.
  6. You can check at any time to see which parts have not been assigned to a group by clicking in the empty space outside of any line from the left-side list widget (to remove the selection).

    All selected parts are highlighted with their respective group’s color, while the un-selected ones remain uncolored.

  7. After assigning all parts to groups, all parts are colored based on the group they belong to.


    Once the groups have been defined, are saved and taken into account during clash computing in order to apply the clearance values specified in Me > Preferences > Simulation > Digital Manufacturing Apps Common Services > Manufacturing Simulation Apps Common Services > Resource Clearances based on the groups, context, and activation status.