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Hi,
When i check interference in a assembly i always get interference between screw and threaded holes. How can i avoid to have these cases into results' report?
Thank you.
Hi Mauro...
Two suggestions... both have some caveats you'll have to be careful with.
First- Create a simplified rep. of your assembly. Remove the screws (leaving washers, nuts, etc). You can use the Find Tool to gather up all the hardware by name to save menu picks. Re-run the interference without the screws. This will eliminate them from the report. The caveat here though is, obviously, you're eliminating not only the bothersome conflicts with your hardware but also potentially important ones.
Second- Run the interference report straight with all hardware in place. When the report comes up, select the "Info" icon to view the report in a separate information window. Select File>Save As from this information window and save the report to a location on your hard drive. The default file name is something like: glbintf.dat Save the file somewhere you can find it later. Next, use Microsoft Excel to open the glbintf.dat file. Use the Excel import options to strip out the useless data. You should end up with 3 columns of data... two of them will contain the parts being checked, the third will contain the volume of interference.
Using Excel you can filter the results to remove hardware from the report. You can also remove very, very small interferences between hardware and threaded holes. Excel gives you plenty of options and opportunties to strip out the useless interferences while retaining the useful ones. The downside here is extra processing work. In addition, if you decide to ignore all "small" interferences (.0005 and smaller), you have to keep in mind that sometimes those small interferences are intentional (press-fit pins, etc).
With both techniques you have to be vigilant. Yet both should provide you with some measure of relief to eliminate your problems with hardware interferences.
Let us know if this works!
Thanks!
-Brian