Resulting Products

You can visualize and use resulting products (instead of design products) to create, simulate and analyze assembly tracks.

In a Simulation context, you can use the resulting product for items to perform early assembly feasibility analysis.

Track creation, track simulation and probe definition can be based on these resulting products.

At any time you can check that the resulting products are synchronized with the product and item. You can update the resulting products according to design or manufacturing changes to take them into account for manufacturing simulation or analysis.

This page discusses:

See Also
Managing Tracks for Items

Introduction

A resulting product takes into account the resulting product defined on an item and can be used in the simulation of that item.

Resulting product is the 3D data defined on an item (through a materialization link). You can define the 3D representation result of an item. This 3D representation can be different from the design parts implemented by the item. For example, it could be the result of a transformation step such as machining holes.

How to Use Resulting Products Defined for Items

You can work with resulting products defined on items to define, simulate and analyze assembly paths.

Resulting products are instantiated under the manufactured products for the simulation root.

Resulting Product Display Mode

In the Simulation environment, you can choose to display either the design product or the resulting product defined on an item. To do so, specify the Display mode option in Me > Preferences > App Preferences > Simulation > Digital Manufacturing Apps Common Services > Simulation and Planning Apps Common Services > Product Build Up.

This display mode is taken into account only in Assembly Evaluation simulation environment.

Status of Resulting Product Usage Using B.I. Essentials

After item changes, resulting products used in simulation need to be updated (replaced by latest 3D representation, removed, and so on).

In the B.I. Essentials panel, Resulting Product Usage gives a status for the resulting products of the items.

Note: To access the B.I. Essentials list, from the Tools section of the action bar, select B.I. Essentials . For more information, see Resulting Product Usage.

Resulting Product Management Command

When Resulting Product Usage is selected in the B.I. Essentials panel, Resulting Product Management is available at the right-hand side of the screen. Clicking this button displays the Resulting Product Management dialog box.

This dialog box lists all the items owning a resulting product, whether it is used or not used in session, along with the used manufactured product if it is known.

The status for the resulting product of each item is given using the same color code as that used in the B.I. Essentials.

When you select a line in the dialog box, a context menu is displayed to give available actions for this line.

Connect Resulting Product
This command appears when a resulting product exists but is not used.

It adds usage of the resulting product in the simulation.

Note that the first time a resulting product is used, the root of manufactured products for simulation is created.

Disconnect Resulting Product
This command appears when:
  • item uses a valid resulting product (Up-to-date / Not up-to-date)
  • item has been deleted
  • item has been not loaded
  • item has been moved in structure
  • instance of resulting product has not been deleted
  • instance of resulting product has been not loaded

It removes usage of the resulting product in the simulation.

Update Use of Resulting Product
This command appears when the resulting product used is not the latest one defined on the item.

It updates usage of the resulting product in the simulation. If a more recent resulting product has been set on the item, the old one is replaced by the new one.

Resulting Product Management Using Resulting Product Context Menu

Context commands are available for managing usage of the resulting product.

The different cases are as follows:

  • Selection is an item without predecessors and without resulting product. No command is available in this case.
  • Selection is an item without predecessors and with a resulting product which is not used.

    Only Connect Resulting Product is displayed in the context menu. When this command is run, the resulting product is used in 3D.

  • Selection is an item without predecessors and with a resulting product which is used.

    Only Disconnect Resulting Product command is displayed in the context menu. When this command is run, the resulting product is no longer used in 3D.

  • Selection is an item with predecessors and without resulting product.

    Only commands for predecessors are available:

    • Connect Resulting Product for Predecessors: when this command is run, all existing resulting products defined for direct predecessors is used in 3D.

      Note that all resulting products used for these direct predecessors are used and up-to-date.

    • Disconnect Resulting Product for Predecessors: when this command is run, all resulting products used for direct predecessors are no longer used in 3D.

      Note that all resulting products previously used in 3D for these direct predecessors now have a not used status.

  • Selection is an item with predecessors and with a resulting product which is not used.

    The following commands are available:

    • Disconnect Resulting Product
    • Connect Resulting Product for Predecessors
    • Disconnect Resulting Product for Predecessors

  • Selection is an item with predecessors and with a resulting product which is used.

    The following commands are available:

    • Connect Resulting Product
    • Connect Resulting Product for Predecessors
    • Disconnect Resulting Product for Predecessors

    Note that if the Resulting Product Management dialog box is opened, the information in this dialog box is updated.

Visualization

The display of design product or resulting products depends on the Display mode option specified in Me > Preferences > App Preferences > Simulation > Digital Manufacturing Apps Common Services > Simulation and Planning Apps Common Services > Product Build Up. Nevertheless when the option is selected, display is done with the following behavior:

  • No selection is done: if no item or operation selection is done, all resulting products corresponding to an item are displayed.
  • Selection is done: if an item or operation selection is done, product buildup is automatically applied. Visualization of product buildup is applied at selection of the item, track on item, operation, or track under operation.

Track Management

If the Resulting Product display mode is selected, the resulting products are displayed instead of design products.

For operation tracks and item tracks this display mode is taken into account at track editing and simulation.

Dynamic Clash

If the Resulting Product display mode is selected, the resulting products for simulation are displayed and taken into account for dynamic clash detection. Clash is detected on the resulting products and not design products.

Probes and Actions

If the Resulting Product display mode is selected, you can define probes (interference/measure between) or choreography activity (color action) by selecting the resulting product products in the 3D or the tree.

Full selection flexibility is available when selecting the parts of the resulting product on which the analysis is performed.

You can select a resulting product or a sub-assembly/part of the resulting product.

You can select children of a resulting product in the 3D or in the tree.

Only the selected part is taken into account during simulation (interference checking, color, and so on).

Impact of Changes

For product, item, and resulting product modifications, the resulting products for simulation can be "not up to date".

You can update the resulting products for simulation.

  • Resulting product change on item

    While the update is not done for the resulting product, display is still done using the output. Product buildup, track creation and simulation capabilities only consider the existing resulting products.

    You can manage the update through Resulting Product Management command.

    After the update, when editing or simulating the track, a new output product is displayed in 3D.

    If activities (Interferences, Measurement probes or Color action) have been created using the previous generated product, you can manage the links with the new product. You must manually reconnect the links using Edit Links and Relations capability.

  • Resulting product modification

    The 3D representation for a resulting product set on an item can be modified manually.

    Recommendation is to use Replace by Version capability to manage this change.

    In this case there is nothing to do for the resulting product: status is still up to date for the corresponding item predecessors.

    However, if probes or choreography activities have been defined on resulting products, the Edit Links and Relations must be used to reconnect (manually or automatically).

  • Design Change

    The following changes can influence the item and the resulting products:

    • a product is changed
    • a product is moved
    • a product is removed.

    The first impact of the change must be managed in Manufactured Item Definition or Process Planning. Then you can manage the update for the manufacturing simulation: resulting products should be updated.

  • Manufacturing change

    Manufactured item modifications can also influence the status of the resulting products for simulation:

    • item is changed: update the resulting products
    • item is deleted: update the resulting products, or remove the corresponding resulting product(s).

In general, after update of resulting products, if probes or choreography entities have been defined on the resulting products the links could be broken. You must reconnect the links with the updated resulting products. Checking the links and reconnecting is done through Edit Links and Relations capabilities.