Selecting material

Material is the name of a chemical composition or alloy of which a part is made.

Material can be selected only for parts.

To display the details of the currently selected material

Click

to the right of the Material button to display the Material Details window.

Click Edit to edit Material Details or click Close to close the window.

To edit material details

1 In the Manufacturing Process pane, click the Material button

. The Material Selection window is displayed.

The Part Number and VPE selected for this part are displayed in the window header. The list of materials shows all the materials available for the selected VPE. Material automatically selected by aPriori is highlighted and the related properties are displayed in the Properties list. The Description panel shows material stock size and form.

2 In this window you can:

• Change material catalog

• Change selection policy

• Select material

• Change material stock

• Change material unit cost

• Change material utilization

3 After making changes, click:

• Ok — to apply changes, recalculate the cost, and close the Material Selection window.

• Apply — to apply changes and recalculate the cost without leaving the Material Selection window.

• Cancel — to close the Material Selection window without applying the changes.

Status indicators appear separately for Material Composition and Material Stock. An overall results status indicator appears in the Results area.

A status indicator shows the costing status of the input:

• Green — Costing completed with the requested input.

• Yellow — Costing completed with warnings. Typically, indicates that the requested input was invalid and a different input, based on selection policy, was used for costing.

• Red — Costing failed.

You can see the warnings in the Status Messages pane.

Note If the costing results are outdated, the status indicator is not displayed.