About the Mechanical Interface Assistant

Mechanical Interface Assistant analyzes the mechanical interfaces within a part in an assembly context. This topic explains the information displayed in the result of this analysis.

This page discusses:

Global Status
Detailed Status
Actions

Global Status

The global status provides a simple overview of the analysis.

Information Under the Global Status

The first row specifies the number of actions to be performed as per the analysis. You can also filter these actions.

The second row specifies the number of invalid features detected in the analysis. You can also filter these invalid features.

Once the computation is over for the defined working scope, the global status section is automatically collapsed.

Detailed Status

The detailed status contains the analysis results in detail.

Information Under the Detailed Status

It displays results for all the mechanical interfaces related to the part under consideration and its contents in a tabular form. The table contains the following columns:


Interface Name	Connection Status	Specification	Action	Associated Part	Associated Interface
There are the following three levels in this column: Mechanical Interface Elements in the respective MI Sub-elements under the MI elements	Specifies the connection status for the respective MI as: Connected Not connected/positioned This column is only related to the first level of the Interface Name column.	Displays different computed parameters for the subelements of a mechanical interface. In case of a restricted area, it displays Rc and Rm values. In case of an extended surface, it displays the current extension values (length and offset) and computed extension values (length and offset).	Icons for all the possible actions, which are valid for the respective MI are available in a list. By default, icon for the recommended action is displayed. Selecting another action from the list executes it.	Displays the Part or 3D shape representation connected or positioned to the current part or 3D shape representation.	Displays the mechanical interface involved in the connection or positioning with the current part or 3D shape representation.

Notes:

For any MI sub-element, Rc is the area (in %) covered by the connection at the time of creation of a restricted area and Rm is the area (in %) covered by the connection after a modification of a restricted area.
In the table, the same icons and color conventions, which are used in Mechanical Interface Templates Capture are used to represent different mechanical interface elements.

Actions

This section explains various actions available in the analysis result.

Following actions are available in the actions column, depending on the nature of the connection and the MI:


Icon	Action
	Creates a restricted area or an extended surface depending on the analysis results.
	Updates an MI feature entity. This action is available when a current entity specification is different from the computed one.
	Lets you edit the specifications computed under the specification column. You can edit the specifications of the restricted area having planar support.
	Deletes the irrelevant MI feature entity.
	Cancels the previous validation and lets you choose a different action. This action is only available after a validation.
	Sets the minimum number of required connections to zero, for an unconnected MI.
	Reframes on all the selected mechanical interfaces or their subelements.
	Temporarily associates the non-connected or non-positioned MI with other MI for analysis. For a MI that is already temporarily associated with the other MI, the Associate action is replaced with Re-associate.
	Validates the current status of the MI element.