Data Management and User Interface Issues
When performing a tolerance study, you have three options:
• Quick—Use for temporary analyses. Use Quick when performing a temporary analysis that you do not want to store permanently.
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 Selecting this option and then clicking  or  results in exiting from the Tolerance Analysis interface. Any modification to the dimension tolerance is not saved. |
• Saved—Stores the tolerance analysis to the current Creo Parametric session. To save the analysis permanently as a feature, click Save in Creo Parametric. Saved tolerance studies are listed in the Tolerance Analysis Manager.
• Feature─Stores the tolerances analysis to the current Creo Parametric session as an analysis feature. To permanently save the analysis as a feature, click Save in Creo Parametric.
You can view or modify a saved tolerance analysis measurement by selecting the tolerance analysis measurement from the list in the
Tolerance Analysis Manager dialog box and then clicking
Edit
. Tolerance analysis measurements that have been stored as a feature are displayed in the PTC Creo Parametric Model Tree. You can view and edit their properties by right-clicking the tolerance analysis feature and selecting
Edit Definition.
Since the tolerance analysis measurement references PTC Creo Parametric dimensions, the measurement results update automatically if any of the referenced dimensions or tolerances is modified in PTC Creo Parametric.
Note that when you select a dimension in
Creo Tolerance Analysis powered by CETOL Technology, that dimension is shown in Creo Parametric with its original properties. If you have made a change to that dimension, the properties in
Creo Tolerance Analysis may differ from the properties of the dimension in Creo Parametric. When you click
in the lower-right corner of the dialog box to accept the changes to the tolerance analysis measurement, the tolerance analysis is saved to the assembly model. If you have made changes to any of the dimension properties, those changes are written back to Creo Parametric.
Since Creo Parametric Tolerance Analysis is not native Creo Parametric functionality, the interaction with the application differs from Creo Parametric standard behavior in a few ways:
• The tolerance analysis data is always stored in the top-level component, regardless of which component is the active component.
• While Creo Tolerance Analysis is running, most Creo Parametric functions are disabled.
• A middle-click of the mouse in Creo Parametric dialog boxes is equivalent to clicking OK but has no effect in the Tolerance Analysis dialog boxes.