Clash Behaviour and Clash Settings

Overview

By default the Clash command stops after detecting a limit of 1000 pairs of interfering parts. Touching situations are not taken into account for reaching this limit. If you want to change the limit or completely switch it off, please use the Limits option in the Clash Settings dialog.

Activation

Available without additional activation.

To invoke the command type clash_settings in the command line.

Description

The Clash Settings dialog allows you to control the behaviour of the Clash command. Various options are available

Ignore: Extended 3D Lib

Per default the "Ignore 3D Lib" option in the clash dialog will consider 3D library parts and library parts marked as such by the Developer's Kit (see sd-set-library-attr). In releases before Creo Elements/Direct Modeling 2007 this option only considered 3D library parts. To simulate the behavior of pre-2007 releases, turn off the option "Ignore: Extended 3D Lib".

Ignore: Ignore Touching

If this option is turned on touching cases will not be reported in the clash result

Sorting

There are two options available for sorting the output in the output box. The default option is the lexicographical sorting of the results.
The other option available is sorting by clashing and touching cases. If this option is used all the clashing cases come first and after that all touching cases are reported.

Single Output

If this option is turned on you get

==> CLASH RESULTS <==

"/p1"
        clashes with "/p2" =>
            "/clash/p1_p2"

as the output in the output box instead of

==> CLASH RESULTS <==

"/p1"
        clashes with "/p2" =>
            "/clash/p1_p2"

"/p2"
        clashes with "/p1" =>
            "/clash/p1_p2"

with this option turned off.

Colors: Part

you can change the color for visualizing clashing volumes

Colors: Touch Part

you can change the color for visualizing touching cases

Limits: Clash

The positive number n specified here is used to stop the clash analysis as soon as n real interferences are found. When doing a clash analysis you will be informed about reaching the limit by a message in the output box. When no value is specified a complete analysis will be done. The default value is n=1000.