Design variable control
Today’s CAD systems offer sophisticated links
among dimensions, enabling their users to produce
true parametric designs. That’s wonderful—but it is
limited to geometric constraints.
How do you evaluate the effects of a weight change? A difference in power
requirements? An alteration in the dielectric quality of a component?
With current systems, the answer is: Manually.
With KollabNet, you create appropriate
DesignBlocks, and tie them to suitable
analytical software—spreadsheets or
special-purpose codes. Then you simply design,
and let KollabNet keep track of the variables.
When you exceed any limits, regardless of how
complex, KollabNet lets you know.
But there’s more. For any DesignBlock, you can
ask KollabNet to show you what DesignBlocks
affect it, and what DesignBlocks it affects. So
when you want to explore the impact of a change
you are considering, KollabNet lets you know
what else you will affect.
Not only does KollabNet keep track of your
changes, it also keeps track of all the reasons
behind the changes. You can always ask, "Why was
it changed? "or "What was the change based on?"