Track Analysis Assistant Panel

The panel shows all objects in collision or contact, which are computed and displayed in the panel's 3D Viewer and consist of the followings:

Viewing Options

There are two viewing options for the panel's object list found in the upper-right corner of the Track Analysis Assistant panel:

• Track Position Analysis

  Collision or contact computation is completed for all the moving objects at the current position and all of the 3D context objects. Only the moving objects and the objects in collision or contact are displayed in the Track Analysis Assistant. If no interference is identified for the position of the moving object, the list and the 3D viewer are empty.

• Full Track Analysis

  Collision or contact computation is completed along the full Track between the moving object and the full 3D context. All of the moving objects and the objects in collision or contact are displayed in the Track Analysis Assistant. If no interference is identified for objects along the Track, then the list and the 3D viewer are empty.

  Note: This option is not supported for kinematic Tracks, systems, workplans, operations, assembly sequences, production system excitations, or manufacturing scenarios.

Note: Specific case of clearance: If the distance between the moving and context objects is smaller than the specified clearance value, they are also displayed in the Track Analysis Assistant, whatever the viewing option is.

You can specify the clearance value in two different ways according to the active command:

• In Track editing or simulation, the clearance is taken into account if it has been specified in the Dynamic Clash options.
• In the Path Planning command, the clearance is specified by the "Clearance required" parameter in the global clash limits or local clash limits.

Settings

Starts a panel that allows you to specify a color for objects in clash, contact, and clearance and to choose whether or not to display the Track names.

Hidden Objects

Starts a panel that lists objects hidden either from the panel's list view, the 3D viewers, or the tree. When the object is shown, it is removed from the list. Any object hidden outside the scope of the Track Analysis Assistant is not displayed in the list.

Export as CGR

Starts the Export as CGR panel that lists the Product Reference(s) containing the Track Analysis Assistant content. All the displayed objects and collision curves in the Track Analysis Assistant are added to the product with their current graphic properties. Moving objects and collision curves are added to three separate 3D Shapes. Information about interferences (such as involved products or interference types) is added in the description of moving and context 3D Shapes.

Click Create and open exported Products to create and open the listed Product Reference(s) in one or several tabs (one tab per product).

Notes:

• This command is only available if the Track Position Analysis option is selected.
• The tab in which the Product Reference opens is the last-accessed application with product management functionalities. In this tab, you can manipulate the created product, add reviews, save, and share it.
• You can define a specific name and typing for the created Product References with the Customize Resulting Product or Workplan/Operation/System output or Workplan Publication Creation business logic.
• The naming convention for the exported root product is as follows:

  Objects	File Name
  Track on Operation	OperationName_TrackName_Index
  Track on Resource	ResourceName_TrackName_Index
  Excitation Track	TrackName_Index
  System	SystemName_Index
  Operation	OperationName_Index
  Assembly Sequence	AssemblySequenceName_Index
  Manufacturing Scenario	ManufacturingScenarioName_Index

Cross Highlighting Capabilities

You can select an object in the list view. That object is selected and highlighted in the main 3D viewer and tree, but not in the panel's 3D viewer.

Note: Clicking an empty space removes the highlight from the object in the main 3D viewer, but keep the object's row highlighted in the panel list. If you select an object in the panel's 3D viewer, all other instances of the object are highlighted.

You can right-click the empty space or the objects in the 3D viewer, and the objects in the list of the Track Analysis Assistant panel to access the following context menu commands:

Fit All In

Displays the full view of the collision or contact object. Right-click the empty space in the 3D viewer to access the command.

Display All Products

Displays all of the collision objects. Right-click the empty space in the 3D viewer to access the command.

Reframe On or Reframe On Collision Object

Displays the zoomed-in view of the collision or contact objects. Right-click a collision or contact object in the 3D viewer to acces the Reframe On command and in the list view to access the Reframe On Collision Object command.

Hide Collision Object

Identifies if any object needs to be excluded from computation. Once a colliding object is hidden, it is not considered for computation. Right-click a collision or contact object in the 3D viewer or the list view to access the command.

Display Value

Computes the values for any moving or collision object rows. Right-click a collision or contact object in the list view to access the command.

At the first start of this command, the values for all the rows are computed, and not only for the selected row. After this option is activated, two other options are available: penetration vector and value.

Selecting a row displays the penetration vector and its value in the 3D viewer. If no row is selected, the penetration vector/value is not displayed in the 3D viewer. The penetration vector is displayed according to the type of interference. This includes clash, contact, and clearance:

• Clash indicates when a simple vector is on top of the geometry.
• Contact indicates when nothing is displayed.
• Clearance indicates when a vector is displayed with a double arrow between objects in collision according to the clearance required value.

The size of the vector is the penetration or the minimum distance value. It is possible to multiselect in the list view to display more than one penetration vector and value.

Center Tree on Collision Object

Expands the tree up to the selected object, if it is displayed. Right-click a collision or contact object in the list view to access the command.