Visualizing Tolerance Analysis Results 

This task will show you how to visualize tolerance analysis activities.
  • A visualized tolerance analysis displays assembly deformations or initial deformations of any assembly's component according to the selected activity.
  • You can only visualize computed activities.
  • See Computing Tolerance Analysis.
Open the BasicTaaProcess2.CATProcess document.

  1. Compute the Release.2 activity. See Computing Tolerance Analysis.

  1. Click the Visualization icon:

    The Visualization dialog box appears.

    • Clicking the Report button in the visualization dialog box generates a html file containing the compute report.
    • In the Kind of Visualization frame you can define the desired visualization:
      • Determinist
        • Mean
        • Normal display or Residual Stress
      • Statistics
        • Mean or Mean minus three standard deviations or Mean plus three standard deviations
        • Normal display or Residual Stress
    • Three delta analyses are available:
      • Absolute
      • Product Delta
      • Activity Delta

  1. Select View -> Render Style -> Customize View.

    The Custom View Modes dialog box appears.

  1. Select the options as displayed in the Custom View Modes dialog box and click OK.

  1. Click the Visualization icon:

  1. Click on the Release.2 activity in the process list to visualize it.

    The assembly looks like this: Assembly components after computation appear with their deformations.
    The Translational displacement magnitude tool displays the deformations scale.

  2. Click on Plate One to visualize its input tolerances.

    Input tolerances are visualized.

  3. Click on Release.2 activity to visualize it again.

     

  4. Select Residual Stress.

    Residual Stresses are displayed in the assembly.
    The  Von Mises Stress tool displays the deformations scale.