Analyzing Tool Search Results

You can get a high-level view of the analysis without having to perform the complete analysis results.

This saves time when there are a large number of welds and weld guns under analysis. This view allows you to quickly determine:

  • That there is a tool that causes no collisions and can reach all of the welds
  • That any unreachable can be fixed by orienting the target

Before you begin: You have:
  • Selected multiple weld guns and fasteners with Tool Search
  • Simulated and generated results for the manufacturing simulation
  1. From the Analysis Commands section of the action bar, click Analyze Results to view the results of the analysis.
    The Analyze Results dialog box appears.

    The fasteners that were selected for analysis are listed in the Spot Target/Fastener column of the table. The list of fasteners displayed in this column can be filtered by their assigned and feasability state:

    Each subsequent column represents a weld gun that was selected for analysis. If Compute with Tool flipped was selected in the Tool Search Scenario dialog box, an additional column is also provided for each weld gun in its flipped state.

    Hold the mouse cursor over a cell to see the full name of the fastener for that cell. After a moment, the full name of the tool also appears.

    Each cell is color-coded to represent the feasibility of each selected gun with each fastener. By default:

    • indicates that the target is reachable and requires no modification with the current tool.
    • indicates that the target is fixable and can be used with the current tool by modifying the target orientation.
    • indicates that the target is unfixable, where the current tool is not valid with any orientation of the fastener.

    Default colors can be changed by clicking Customize Cell Colors and clicking the color swatch in the Panel Color dialog box.

  2. Click Filters Manager to filter the row for any column. The query is not case sensitive.

    Click Hide/Show all to toggle the display of all or none of the fasteners.

  3. Click Column Manager to filter the displayed resources.

    You can enter a term to filter the columns in the list. The query is not case sensitive.

    Click next to each tool to toggle the show/hide status for the column that represents each tool.

    Click Hide/Show all columns to toggle the display of all or none of the columns.

  4. The Analyze Results dialog box also provides the following functions:

    Lock/Unlock Translation toggles the lock or unlock status of the translation of selected welds.
    Snap/Unsnap Tool toggles whether the tool is snapped to the selected weld.
    Make Product Transucent determines the product translucency. This can help when the reach disc appears obstructed by the product.
    Section Preferences provides options to define the section plane when performing sectioning at the weld location.
    Save Section Result saves the section result in a representation of the given name.
    Launch Simulation launches a partial simulation.

  5. Click a yellow (fixable) cell in the Analyze Results table.

    The tool for the selected table column snaps to the fastener of the selected table row, and the analysis disc appears.

    A context toolbar also appears, and provides the following commands that assist in orienting the target to a reachable condition without collision:

    RotateX Closest rotates the gun to the center of closest green zone (reachable zone).
    RotateX Biggest rotates the gun to the center of the biggest green zone (reachable zone) when there are multiple green zones.
    Commit Position saves a modified manufacturing weld location.
    Assign Resource allows you to assign a resource to an unassigned fastener.
    Reset to Last Commited returns a modified orientation to the last committed position.
    Generate Section displays a 2D sectional view of the current position in the Sectional View dialog box.
  6. Use the manipulater to orient the target so that the tool moves to the green area of the analysis disc, and click Commit Position in the context toolbar to save the modified location.

    The selected table cell turns green to indicate an OK result for the target fastener.
  7. Close the Analyze Results dialog box when the analysis is complete.