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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nx_analysis/vda_checker.html');return(false);">Check VDA-4955 Compliance Overview</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nx_analysis/vda_criteria.html');return(false);">Description of the Check Criteria</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nx_analysis/vda_interact.html');return(false);">Checker Process</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nx_analysis/vda_config.html');return(false);">Configuration File</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nx_analysis/vda_select.html');return(false);">Select Geometry Set</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nx_analysis/vda_topology.html');return(false);">Topological Information</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nx_analysis/vda_results.html');return(false);">Results Viewing</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nx_analysis/vda_file_usage.html');return(false);">External File Usage</a></p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">You start the analysis run by clicking the Apply or OK button on the main dialog. If any requested check criterion relies on topology information, the topology is reevaluated if the selected geometry or the Topological Tolerances | Distance changed since the last topology evaluation. All selected objects are checked according to the check criteria list. For each criterion, a list of comply errors for all violations is created. At the end of this run the comply error list information is mapped into two temporary files:</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The Results Log file stores all diagnosis information of an analysis run. The external format implements the global check criteria. </p>
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            <p class="para_item">The Comply Error Objects file contains the comply errors mapped into a session-independent representation suitable for loading into another NX interactive session. The Results Log File is also appended to the Comply Error Objects File. All output files created by the VDA Checker are simple, line oriented, readable text files. </p>
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                  <p class="para_note_body"> According to VDA 4955, at analysis run start there is no test performed if the geometry sets are empty (for every analysis run a log for all criteria is created without respect to selected geometry). If the All in Partfile option is cleared, you could verify this by checking the state of the Remove All from Geometry Set options (e.g., if Faces is disabled, no faces are selected). </p>
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               <p class="para_td">Reset All</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Resets all configuration parameters to the system default values. The configuration used is reset to the default configuration file if one was specified via the environment variable&nbsp;UGII_VDA4955_CFG_FILE.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">OK</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Execute the analysis run then leave the main dialog.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Apply</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Execute the analysis run without leaving the main dialog.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Cancel</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Leave the dialog and the VDA Checker.</p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">When the VDA Checker terminates, the temporary Results Log File and Comply Error Objects File are copied to their destination files, with file extensions *.log and *.ceo respectively. By default, the *.log and *.ceo file names are derived from the part file name, (e.g., for a part demo_part.prt,&nbsp; the file names wold be demo_part.log and demo_part.ceo).</p>
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                  <p class="para_note_body">You must rename these files to prevent them from being overwritten during the next session or batch run. </p>
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