Creating and Editing an Interference Simulation

You can create and edit an Interference Simulation in an Assembly Design Context.

Before you begin: Open the product on which you want to check Interferences in Assembly Design. Refer to Assembly Design User's Guide.

  1. Select your product in the Specification Tree.

  2. Click Create Interference Simulation .

    The Interference Simulation Definition dialog box appears.

  3. From the Context tab, type a unique name for this interference simulation.

  4. From the Group1 area, click to define the products that will be taken into account in your interference simulation.

    The Group Definition dialog box appears.

  5. Select a product either from the 3D view or the specification tree.

    The Group definition dialog box appears.

    Tips:
    • You can deselect the products by clicking again on it.
    • If you want to define a Group 2, in the drop-down list, select Group 1 against Group 2. The Group 2 is then available.

  6. Click OK in the Group Definition dialog box.

  7. Open the Specifications tab and select the convenient options:

    • Clash and contact: By default, this option is selected and is compulsory.
    • Clearance and Clearance Value: to compute clearance during simulation.
    • Compute quantifier: to compute and store the clearance minimal distance.

      This value will appear in the interference simulation result, in the Quantifier column.

      Warning: This option reduces the simulation speed.
    • Recompute only modified interferences:By default, this option is selected to reuse existing interference when re-executing the interference simulation and compute only Not up-to-date interferences.

      Note: If you are a DS Passport customer, you can read the QA00000005872 article from the Recompute only modified interferences.

  8. From the Options tab, select Launch computation now to launch the computation at the end of the creation process.

    By default, this option is selected.

  9. Click OK in the Interference Simulation Definition dialog box.

    You are now in the Product Interference Check workbench.

    The new interference simulation appears in the Specification Tree.

You can analyze the interference simulation result.