About Fastener Check Rules

Fastening provides a number of standard check rules that let you ensure that your design is consistent and robust. For example, you can use a dedicated check rule to verify that a fastener does not clash into surrounding parts.

To comply with the standards of your company, you can also create your own check rules and integrate them into the Fastener Check Rules batch.

This page discusses:

Tools for Checking Design Consistency
Criticality
Statuses Issued by the Reports

Tools for Checking Design Consistency

There are various ways of running consistency checks based on rules.

You can:

Click Rules Immersive Report . For more information, see Creating a Rules Immersive Report.
It is possible to automate the generation of the report while designing new fasteners or editing existing ones.
To specify when you want to run the checks, select either of the options in Me > Preferences > App Preferences > 3D Modeling > Multi Discipline Engineering > Fastening > General. For more information, see Rule Check Integration in Fastening.
Run the FastenerRulesCheck batch. For more information, see Checking the Design Consistency by Running a Batch in CATUTIL.
Click B.I. Essentials and select Fasteners Design : Checks. For more information, see Checking the Rules Consistency.

When the checks are done, the diagnostics provided describe the possible problems encountered when applying the rules on the fasteners. You can then take appropriate actions to solve these issues, guarantee the consistency of fastener information and thus improve the quality of your design.

Criticality

You must assign a criticality to every check rule in the Fst_Standard File.

For more information, see Customization of the Fst_Standard File.


Criticality	Description
1	Low
2	Medium
3	High

Statuses Issued by the Reports

When the checks have been performed, a status is issued for each check rule.


Status	Description
OK	The result complies with the rule.
KO	An issue has been detected.
N/A	The check rule has not been run on the fastener
RNC	'Rule Not Checked": Displayed if the rule is excluded for this fastener.
FAILED	The rule has been run on the fastener but an error occurred.