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KLKen Lux14/12/2019
Does anyone know or have any links to information on how DimXpert decides if a surface is unconstrained, underconstrained, constrained, or overconstrained? My experience is that the calculation it does is unpredictable and often incorrect. Some examples:
- Often adding a single constraint to an under-constrained surface will make it over-constrained.
- Picture two holes on the top surface of a box with all of the sides constrained. Let the X-Y plane be the top of the box. Insert a +/- dimension for the x-distance of one hole from the closest side perpendicular to the x-axis. Insert another +/- dimension for the x-distance between the two holes. Now DimXpert reports both holes as overconstrained. Sometimes if you set the +/- dimension to be from the 2nd hole to its outer face, then things are OK even if there is a constraint on the total width.
- Sometimes you get a message saying "Added tolerance has overconstrained the part" when you add a datum.
- Adding a hole pattern on one face causes another face to go from fully constrained to underconstrained.
- Many, many, many times I end up with 1 item overconstrained and 1 item underconstrained.
- Sometimes Ctrl-Q or closing SW and re-opening it will resolve the 1-item-over-and-1-item-under problem mentioned above.
- There is zero documentation available outside of the help file that is little more than just a list of what the property managers do.
I would like to do a tolanalyst study, but I can't get DimXpert to constrain things properly.
I suspect that once you have a datum reference frame that when you add another datum, DimXpert lets the oldest datum float. If so, this is useless for any part that needs multiple DRFs.