About the Check Editor  

The Check editor is displayed when you click the icon in the Knowledge Expert tool bar. It lets you define the check you want to perform.

Condition tab

For All Field

Indicated by the universal quantifier , this field lets you specify the features the rule is intended to apply to, to declare the variables names and their types.

Example:  H:Thickness
             H:Hole  
             Tck:Thickness ; Hle:Hole ; P:Pad

  • Types can be indicated by selecting them in the browser or by clicking the features in the geometrical area or in the specification tree.

Actions Toolbar

For more information, see About the Rule Editor. To get a full description of the available types, see the Reference section of this guide.

Check Body area

The check body area is designed for keying in in the check body, which is written in the form of a statement to be checked. In operates on the variables specified in the Condition area (see above).

Example:
H.Diameter == 50.0 mm 

Two contextual commands improving display are available from the contextual menu in the Check Body field:

Correction tab

The Correction tab is made of 2 different areas:

Correction method

The correction method enables you to key in the correction to be applied when the check is not fulfilled (optional).

VB Script Describes the correction in VB (See Launching a Check Correction Method).
Advise Correction Displays a comment in the report associated with the rulebase solve or accessed by right-clicking the check in the specification tree and by selecting Correction function.
URL Opens a URL page.
User Function Describes the correction in KWE language and enables you to re-use the variables of the condition area in the body of the correction.

Correction comment (available for VB Script only)

The message you type in the Correction Comment area will be displayed in the report generated when you click the Report icon of the workbench. It will also be displayed if you right-click the check in the specification tree and select Correction function

Report tab

The message you type in the edition window of the Report tab will be displayed in the report generated when you click the Report icon of the workbench.