connection
Connection check configurations.
GUI Default Settings
- slide-number
- Initial slide # displayed on the report.
- action
- Action items.
- mode
- Execution mode. Interactive mode will be slower than background mode.
- input
- Initial director for CAD Input.
- output
- Initial director for results output.
Hole Detection
- min-diameter
- Minimum diameter for surface hole recognition. Holes below this diameter will be ignored.
- max-diameter
- Maximum diameter for surface hole recognition. Holes above this diameter will be ignored.
- min-nodes
- Minimum number of nodes to recognize FE hole. Holes with nodes less than this number will be ignored.
- max-nodes
- Maximum number of nodes to recognize FE hole. Holes with nodes greater than this number will be ignored.
- adjacent-tolerance
- Distance to judge duplicate holes for the same plate. If the Holes to Holes distance is less than this value it is considered as a duplicate hole.
Free Hole
- do-check
- Turn OFF or ON the check.
- elem-adj-bbox-tolerance
- Search tolerance for searching nearest bolts/nuts from the hole
center.Figure 1.

freeboltnut
- do-check
- Turn OFF or ON the check.
- bolt-box-tolerance
- Search tolerance for searching nearest plates from the bolt outer
surfaces.Figure 3.
- nut-box-tolerance
- Search tolerance for searching nearest plates from the nut outer
surface.Figure 4.
- allowed-plate-comps
- These named parts will not be considered as plates.

bolthole-mismatch
- do-check
- Turn OFF or ON the check.
- input-type
- Continuous CAD lines or CAD solids.
- centernode-search-tolerance
- Search tolerance for searching holes from bolt CAD surface.Figure 6.
- elem-adj-bbox-tolerance
- Tolerance for searching nearest plates from the bolt outer surface.Figure 7.
- min-dist
- Allowable mismatch distance between bolt axis and hole axis.Figure 8.
- max-dist
- Maximum search distance between bolt axis and the hole axis.

nuthole-mismatch
- do-check
- Turn OFF or ON the check.
- input-type
- Continuous CAD lines or CAD solids.
- centernode-search-tolerance
- Search tolerance for searching holes from bolt/nut CAD surface.Figure 10.
- elem-adj-bbox-tolerance
- Tolerance for searching nearest plates from the nut outer surface.Figure 11.
- min-dist
- Allowable mismatch distance between nut axis and hole axis. If the
mismatch is less than this value issues will not be reported.Figure 12.
- max-dist
- Maximum search distance between nut axis and the hole axis. If the mismatch is greater than this value issues will not be reported.

boltnut-mismatch
- do-check
- Turn OFF or ON the check.
- elem-adj-bbox-tolerance
- Tolerance for searching nearest plates from the nut outer surface.Figure 14.
- threshold-angle
- Allowable angle between center axis of bolt and the nut. More than this
angle, the check will be ignored for that pair of connection parts.Figure 15.
- min-dist
- Allowable mismatch distance between nut axis and hole axis. If the
mismatch is less than this value issues will not be reported.Figure 16.
- max-dist
- Maximum search distance between nut axis and the hole axis. If the mismatch is greater than this value, issues will not be reported.

boltnutsize-mismatch
- do-check
- Turn OFF or ON the check.
- elem-adj-bbox-tolerance
- Tolerance for searching nearest bolt, plates from the nut outer
surface.Figure 18.
- min-dist
- Allowable mismatch distance between nut axis and hole axis. If the
mismatch is less than this value issues will not be reported.Figure 19.
- min-nut-tol-bolt-ratio
- Allowable minimum ratio between bolt and nut size. If the ratio is less
than this value the issue is reported.Figure 20.
- max-nut-tol-bolt-ratio
- Allowable maximum ratio between bolt and the nut size. If the ratio is
greater than this value the issue is reported.Figure 21.

holes-mismatch
- do-check
- Turn OFF or ON the check.
- min-dist
- Allowable mismatch distance between nut axis and hole axis. If the
mismatch is less than this value the issues will not be reported.Figure 23.
- max-dist
- Maximum search distance between hole center node axis.
- centernode-search-tolerance
- Tolerance for searching nearest plates from the hole center.Figure 24.
- elem-adj-bbox-tolerance
- Tolerance for searching nearest plates from the hole center.Figure 25.

holespair-mismatch
- do-check
- Turn OFF or ON the check.
- elem-adj-bbox-tolerance
- Tolerance for searching nearest plates from the hole center.Figure 27.
- centernode-search-tolerance
- Tolerance for searching nearest plates from the hole center.Figure 28.

Clip-mismatch
- do-check
- Turn OFF or ON the check.
- input-type
- Continuous CAD lines or CAD solids.
- centernode-search-tolerance
- Search tolerance from center clip to holes center.Figure 30.
- min-dist
- Allowable mismatch distance between clip axis and hole axis.Figure 31.
- max-dist
- Maximum distance between clip axis and the hole axis. Greater than this value the clip parts are ignored in the check.

Arc/Seam/Adhesive/Seal/Hemming -mismatch
- do-check
- Turn OFF or ON the check.
- input-type
- Continuous CAD lines or CAD solids.
- elem-adj-bbox-tolerance (tol)
- Search tolerance for finding the nearest weldable plates. If less than
two parts are found the issue is reported.Figure 33.
- min-dist
- Minimum distance between arc weld to the nearest parts. If less than two
parts are found the issue is reported.
- max-dist
- Maximum distance between weld lines to the nearest parts.
Finds shape mismatch between the weld lines against the plates with the given min and max distance.
