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Intergraph Smart 3D Interference Checking

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Interactive Interference Checking (Local Detect)

You can start and stop local interference checking from a user workstation. You can start the local interference checking by selecting the Check Interference Command on the Tools menu. This action invokes the Check Interference Ribbon, which provides all the tools required for setting up and running the local interference checking process.

When you run local interference checking, interferences are calculated on your workstation, not on the interference-checking server. Therefore, interactive and background interference checking processes can run simultaneously. Local interference detection is limited to checking objects that you create or edit while the Local Detect option is turned on. The status of the local interference check appears in the lower right corner of the application window.

Interactive interference checking provides real-time help through graphical feedback about potential interferences. You can see the interferences immediately after placing the object in the model. For example, when routing a pipe, the software checks interferences for that pipe after the commit to the database.

Because interactive interference checking occurs in real time, the interferences detected interactively are more current than those detected from background interference checking. You can view these background interferences from your workstation. If you have appropriate permissions, you can change the required action of the interferences.

Interactive interference checking only looks for interferences between objects in the active workspace. Hidden objects are not checked. Thus, what you see is what is checked for interferences. Interactive interference checking is not persistent. Therefore, if you close and open or refresh the session file, all the local interferences are removed. However, when you refresh the session, your local interferences become part of the Model database if server-based interference checking is running on the same model.

Run Clash Detection Interactively on a Select Set

You can use the S3DFoulCheckCmds.CForceLocalIFCCommand custom command to process a defined workspace for interference. This command does the following:

  • If there is a select set, processes all of the selected objects for clashes against other objects in the workspace, including those objects in the select set.

  • If there is no select set, processes the entire workspace for clashes.

  • Turns on the local interference detection to initialize the Local IFC engine.

  • Honors your clash detection settings.

This custom command clears any existing local clashes in the workspace, but does not change the remote clashes created by the IFC remote engine.

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