About Technological Results

Create Technological Results supplies technological information about the features included in a body. This information can then be reused at any stage of your design by downstream apps such as Generative Drafting.

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Creating Technological Results

Highlighting Technological Results

In case you want to see which faces are associated to technological results, click 3DMaster Query from the App Options panel.

Deactivating Technological Results

If after generating technological results you need to go on designing and updating your part, we recommend you deactivate the technological results obtained. Deactivating generated technological results is a good way of reducing the time spent by the app in recalculating the changes made to the part. Keep in mind, that to optimize your design, you can use the Deactivate capability available from context menus.

Deleting Technological Results

It is possible to reduce the number of technological results generated by applying Delete. To delete a technological result node, right-click the node and select Delete. This might be useful especially if you do not want to make all technological information available to everybody and need to restrict the information you provide.

Keep in mind that after deleting a technological result node, if later on you reapply Create Technological Results, the node you deleted is not computed again. If you really need to retrieve that node, use Reset Deleted Technological Result. To use that capability, right-click the technological results node and select Reset Deleted Technological Result.

Recommendations of Use

To take full advantage of the capability, here are recommendations of use:

  • Downstream apps usually process root bodies. If intermediate bodies are not used, do not generate technological results for them. We recommend you generate technological results on root bodies only.
  • Generate technological results once you have finished your design.
  • The functional features which are located in a functional body (data structure before R16) are not integrated in the technological result propagation mechanism. No technological result is saved in this case.
  • Functional or Part Design holes used by a functional import (import of a solid functional set, a functional set, or a functional specification) won't be supported by this highlight.
  • No technological results are saved in the bodies created by a divide feature.