About Opening an Interference Simulation

There are two ways to open interference simulations from Interference Finder. Both can be accessed from the context menu and the action bar.

This page discusses:

Open
Open Advanced
Open Interference Simulation from Query Window

Open

You can open a new authoring window, the interference simulation and all aggregate elements by default.

To access this command, you can do any of the following:

You can right-click the simulation in the tree and select Open .
From the Interference Finder section of the action bar, select Open .

When you open an interference simulation, all the pointed filters are checked. If any filters are outdated, a warning message appears. You can select either of the following:

Solve: Opens the Update Filter dialog box and lets you update the broken filters. For more information, see Product Finder Classic User's Guide: Using Persistent Filters: Repair a Persistent Filter.
Note: Reopen the data to take into account the updated filters to compute an interference simulation.
Cancel: Uses broken filters while opening an interference simulation. This can generate unexpected interference simulation results.

Open Advanced

You can manage what and how the interference will be opened in the new window.

This command allows you to open a sub-set of interferences in the authoring window.

You can right-click the simulation in the tree and select Open Advanced , or from the action bar. The Open Advanced dialog appears.

By default, following options are activated when you access the dialog box:

the selected object is expanded from the database to retrieve selected interferences
the selected object opens with its 3D shape in collision
the values set for the options displayed in this dialog box are stored in preference files. Therefore, if you modify the default values, you will recover them next time you run Open Advanced.

Important: Interferences order under the Results node may change at opening.

References

With selected interferences: Opens only the selected interferences. If a simulation is selected before opening, no interference is loaded.
With all interferences: Expands the selected object from the database to retrieve all its children. You obtain a root object with its assembly children but no filter or configuration is applied.

Important:

When you select the With all interferences option, the Interference options become unavailable.
If the number of PLM objects to open exceeds 100000, a message prompts you to confirm the opening. This will be the case, for instance, when opening a whole car or plane assembly.

Interferences

With 3D Shapes in collision: 3D shape representations of all the interferences in a collision (and not only the selected ones) are retrieved and loaded.
Without any 3D Shapes: Representations are neither retrieved, nor loaded.
With all 3D Shapes: All the 3D shape representations are retrieved and opened.

With 3D shapes within: For each occurrence involved in the selected interference, an area is computed around the face of the occurrence based on the distance specified. All the 3D shape representations within the specified distance are retrieved and opened.


	3D shape representation with interference
	All the interferences computing the surrounding area around them using the With 3D shapes within
	All the 3D shapes lying within a specified distance are opened.

Note: These options cannot be selected simultaneously, they are mutually exclusive.

For more information about opening objects, see Opening Content.

Open Interference Simulation from Query Window

You can right-click the interference simulation in the query window and select Open. A Open Progression bar is displayed and the selected simulation opens in a separate window.

The complete simulation opens in the authoring window and loads all the specifications and all the interferences.