Active and inactive scenarios

You have additional control over when CAD-connected (file-connected or direct-integration) components get updated with CAD changes. You can specify that a scenario is either Active or Inactive. If you set a scenario to “Inactive”, it will not automatically update from CAD changes unless you explicitly tell aPriori to refresh its GCDs. This can make costing operations go faster, but you run the risk of not capturing recent updates to the CAD model.

When switching to an inactive sub-component scenario in an assembly (see Switching Scenarios in Assembly/Roll-up Details view on page 1), aPriori will warn you:

“You have selected a scenario that is not active (connected to CAD) and may have different geometry than the component that is in this assembly. If you continue, then the component scenario's geometry may be different than the component's geometry in this assembly (which is connected to CAD). Do you wish to continue?”

Note: In releases prior to 2014R1, the “official” scenario of a subcomponent in an assembly was always considered “active” while other scenarios were automatically considered “inactive. The concepts of “official” and “active” are now separate, and you can control them independently.