Fan Tutorial 2 - Design System - Part 2

(7) Tags for your Custom Needs

Tags are a multi-purpose tool for your specific team needs. You can use them to mark Valis and Blocks. Use them to indicate:

• reliability of a value (assumption/calculated/measured)

• actions for team members (review: Tom/approval: Christine)

• any other marking or grouping

Tag the Mass of the motor as a measured value

• Select the Motor Block in the product tree.

• In the row of the Mass, double click into the cell of the Tags column, type measurement, and hit Enter to add the tag to the Motor.

If you want to search and filter for this tag, select the three horizontal lines which become visible when you hover over the header and select the filter option as shown in Figure Filtering.

Filtering - You can apply filters on any column. In this example, we can Filter for tags.

(8) Linking Block(s) to Requirements

Now that you have your basic System structure, let's establish a connection between the Fan system and the Requirements from our Fan_Specs Specification. This creates a direct link between the System Design and the Requirement.

To do this, go to the Requirements Module and access your Fan_Specs specification (1). Then select all the Requirements (2) and double-click into the “Applicable Block” Column (3). In the dropdown menu, select the Fan system (4).

Setting up an Applicable Block - This creates a direct link between the Requirement and the Fan System

Now, you can click on “Open“ when hovering over the “Fan“ system in the “Applicable Block” column to access it in your System Design Module.

Navigate to the System Design Module through the link.

You can check the Requirements linked to this system by clicking on the “Requirements“ tab above the Vali table.

Accessing Requirements from the System side - here all Requirements are shown that apply to the selected system (in this case the Fan).

For further insights on the Applicable Blocks feature, please check out our documentation.

(9) Creating Budget Tables and Pie chart

We now have a preliminary design breakdown of our system, and we would like to see the mass budgets in our Analysis document Project_Summary which was created in the previous tutorial (Specify Product - Part 2). Let's go ahead and add new blocks to our documentation.

Mass Budget Table

To create the mass budget table in our analysis document,

• Select Analysis Module and select the Project_Summary

• Scroll down and click Click to add new block

• Select the option Tables on the popup dialog box. Here, choose Budget.

• A new block is added to the document. Click on the Add data to this table. This opens a new dialog box where the user can select the valis they want to see the breakdown.

• In the + Add to vali, select Fan.Mass and close. This creates the budget table for our fan, which can be expanded as shown in the tutorial below.

Creating a Mass budget table in the Analysis Module.

Pie Chart for mass breakdown

To create a graphical representation of the mass breakdown, we can choose charts instead of tables.

• Scroll down and click Click to add new block

• Select the option Charts (1) on the popup dialog box. Here, choose Budget (2).

Selecting charts and creating a pie chart for the mass breakdown.

• A new block is added to the document. Click on the Add data to this table. This opens a new dialog box where the user can select the chart type and valis which they would like to see the breakdown for.

• In the + Add to vali, select Fan.Mass and close.