General

Performances

Optimize

Lets you automatically adapt some Machining options for optimized performance.


These options are listed in the information dialog box that appears:
General tab: Clear 'Update activity status automatically' Select all Highlight check boxes in 'Color and Highlight' Resources tab: Clear 'Automatic query after modification' Output tab: Clear 'Store contact points in tool path' Set 'Tool output point to 'Tooltip' Material Removal: Set Tool and Faceting to 'Standard' Simulation: Clear 'Display tool path during machining simulation' Clear 'Synchronize material removal with simulation steps' Set 'Max steps backward' to 0 Clear 'Enable detailed clash results' Clear 'Compute volume information for each activity' Infrastructure > DELMIA Infrastructure > Play Options: Clear 'Simulate in real time' Select 'Graphics Updates Every n seconds' For next session: Display ambience will be set to 'White Design' 'Highlight Active Operations' will be checked in Simulation Options > Resources Simulation. Also do the following: Decrease Undo Stack Size in General > PCs

Click Yes to set the options as described in the dialog box.
Note: If required, you can reset locally any of these options.
Click No to leave the options to their current settings.

The information box also lists some recommendations for manually setting other options that have an influence on performances.

Further optimization can be reached by setting CPU usage level for computationally intensive operations to Maximal in the Me > Preferences > General > PCS tab.

This setting allows parallel processing with two cores or more (up to all the cores of the machine).

Parallel processing helps reduce the elapsed tool path computation time and the overall programming time.

Parallel processing is available for the following operations:

Roughing, Cavities Roughing, Power Machining, Prismatic Roughing: during the sweeping step for Helical , Back and Forth or By Offset on part ... Strategy.
Sweeping: during the section step
Contour driven (Constant 3D in Parallel contour Guiding strategy)
Slope Area: during the section step
Preparation step (during the computation of the mesh) for all operations.

Important:

Parallel processing requires more memory since objects of each parallel process are in the memory simultaneously. For best performance, use 3.2 GB of RAM for a 32b machine and 2Gb per core for a 64b machine.
The activation of the parallel processing on nonsuitable hardware may lead to performance degradation because other aspects than processing capacity could become the bottleneck (for example, RAM).
For hyperthreaded machines, the maximum number of cores is twice the physical number of cores. Do not exceed 50% of the maximum for the number of cores.
The parallel processing activation provides a significant gain if run on a suitable hardware and processing large models.
Keep in mind that you can only make a subset of the computation steps parallel.

General

Note:

To be effective, any option change requires that you refresh the Activities Process Tree. You can force this refresh by minimizing the Activities Process Tree.
The handling of the transition path activities is fully automated. Their creation doubles the number of activities in the list and one transition path is inserted before each machining operation.
Tip: Hide them to improve the readability of the list.

Update activity status automatically: When selected, this updates automatically the status of activities in the tree. If you do not select this check box, you can display the status of one or more selected activities in the tree using Display Status of Selected Activities.
Note: Clear this check box to improve performance.

By default, this check box is cleared.
Show transition path activity in activities list: When selected, displays the transition path in the Activities Process Tree.
By default, this check box is cleared.
Create a machining cell when loading a machining app: When selected, creates a Machining Cell in the specifications tree when you enter a Machining app.
By default, this check box is selected.
Run the machining assistant when loading a machining app: When selected, opens a Machine Programming Wizard when you enter a Machining app.
By default, this check box is selected.
Show only the current machine: When selected, this shows only the current machine.
By default, this check box is cleared.
Prefix PLM objects name at creation: When selected, this shows the prefix PLM objects name at creation.
By default, this check box is selected.

Color and Highlight

Lets you:

Select the colors used for identifying various manufacturing entities.
Activate the highlight display for some entities.

Note:

For geometry that is not found or not up-to-date, you can select the colors used to display the valuated parameters in the corresponding operation or feature dialog boxes.
Performance is improved when all of the Highlight check boxes are selected.
If the Highlight check boxes are selected, highlighted elements may hide other elements, making them difficult to select. For example, highlighted edges of a solid would hide curves that coincide with these edges. In such cases, do not select the Highlight check boxes.

Intermediate Stock

Color

Lets you select the color used for identifying the intermediate stock from a list.

Transparency

Lets you set the transparency value of the intermediate stock (0 to 255).

Notes:

To obtain a progressive transparency, set Transparency Quality to Alpha Blending in Me > Preferences > App Preferences > Simulation > Machining .
In a Lathe Machining context, while editing Machining Operations, an intermediate stock contour is computed.
In order to display this contour correctly, set the Pixel Culling parameters to 0 in Tools > Options > Display > Performance.

Tool Path Replay

Display tool near cursor position on tool path

When selected, displays the tool near your cursor position on the trajectory during a tool path replay.

Click a point on the tool path to display the tool at this specific position. The tool is positioned on the nearest computed point on the tool path.
Click anywhere on the tool or the tool path to remove the tool from that position.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Display tool center instead of tool tip

When selected, displays the tool center point instead of the tooltip during a tool path replay.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Display circles

When selected, displays each circular trajectory as a circular arc instead of a set of discretization points. The extremities of the circular arc are indicated by the means of 'O' symbols.

This allows better control of the Point by Point replay mode. In this case, it is required to make several interactions to replay a circle (because of its representation by a set of points). With the graphic representation as a circle, only one interaction is required to perform the replay.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Color of feed rates:

Lets you select the colors used for identifying the various feed rate types from the lists. The selected colors are displayed in the Different colors replay mode.

Color of kinematics checking:

Lets you select the colors used for identifying the various machine kinematics constraints from the lists.

Complementary Geometry

Create a Physical Product to store geometry

When you select this option, a physical product is automatically created allowing the user to store geometries required for NC Programming.

By default, this check box is cleared.

When you check the option, a new product node is created and added under during creation of a new NC assembly.

Scenarios considered for creation of this new product automatically:

App transition from 3D Part or Product apps to Machining apps.
Importing of an assembly by selecting a 3D Part or Product.

Personal Data Processing

Do not store username in output and log files: Lets you choose whether or not to store your username in output and log files.
By default, this check box is cleared.