Forcing Update to Retrigger Weld Rule in Synchronization Manager

You can display a detailed modification status of the structure plate, and force trigger the weld rule or opening rule during synchronization.

Synchronization manager dialog contains user preferences that are not active, in the preferences panel:

  • Check Detail Modification Status by Revision: Selecting this option, a detailed modification status by revision of the Structure Plate displays.
  • Allow Force Update to Re-trigger Rules the section has Weld Rule and Opening Rule options.
    • If Weld Rule option is selected, you can force a trigger weld rule by selecting the Update with Rule action for the weld line.
    • If Opening Rule option is selected, you can force a trigger opening rule by selecting the Update with Rule action for the opening.

  1. If Check Detail Modification Status by Revision option is selected, a detailed modification status of the Structure Plate objects in EBOM is displayed in braces as described below:
    • If the Material or Thickness of the plate (or panel) is different compared to the previous revision of the plate (or panel), then the status is shown as Modified (Spec)
    • For all other modification, the status is shown as Modified (Geo)


  2. Modification status of manufacturing features:
    • If Weld Rule option is clicked in Preference, the status of the Weld Line is displayed as Overridden if the weld features are different from the weld rule.
    • If Opening Rule option is clicked in the Preference, the status of the opening is displayed as Overridden if the opening type is different from the opening type returned from the rule.


  3. Force update to retrigger rules:
    • If Weld Rule option is selected, Update with Rule option is available additionally in the action column for the weld line. If Update With Rule is selected, the weld rule is executed and the weld features update according to the weld rule.
    • If Opening Rule option is selected, Update With Rule option is available additionally in the action column for the Opening feature. If Update With Rule is selected, the opening rule is executed and the opening feature is updated accordingly.

    As shown, when the status of the feature is Up-To-Date, execute the weld rule with Update With Rule option.



    If the status of the feature is Modified, execute the rule with Update With Rule option, or you can only update the feature trigger with the Update option.