Setting Compare Options
You set the comparison options in the Compare
Options dialog box. Click Options
in the Compare
Task Pane to open the dialog box.
Common Tab
These options are common to all Compare
utilities.
Units
Select an item in Linear
units or Angular units
and set the parameter values.
Changing the linear or angular
units does not change the units of the solid model. These units are for
display of Compare results only.
Tolerance
Move the Position
tolerance and Angle tolerance
sliders for a finer or coarser tolerance. To perform a comparison with
new tolerances, you must run Compare again.
Position
Tolerance. During face comparison,
Compare Geometry compares
the position of vertex coordinates and some surface points of face pairs.
Vertices or points that lie within a specified position tolerance are
considered identical.
Angle Tolerance.
During face comparison, Compare
Geometry compares
the parallelism of the edges of face pairs. If the edges are curved,
tangents to the curves are compared. The faces are identical if the angle
between their corresponding edges is less than the specified angle tolerance.
Features Tab
Color
Colors highlight the related model entities
displayed in the graphics area. To modify the color used for items, select
an item from the list, click Edit
to open the Color palette, and
set the color. Colors are applied to the models after the Compare
utility has run.
Report
You can specify the model views to display
in an HTML report.
Only current
view. Only the current views as seen in the graphics area are included
in the report.
Current and
specified views. The current views and additional views are included
in the report. Click Add/Remove
Views to include additional views in the report.
Geometry Tab
General
Check documents
before Compare Geometry. Verifies the geometry of both parts before
starting the comparison. When
selected, SolidWorks Utilities runs the SolidWorks Check
function to find invalid surfaces and edges. If either part fails the
check process, a dialog box appears that asks for confirmation to proceed
with the comparison.
Perform
face comparison. Calculates the number of unchanged, unique, and
modified faces. The results are shown in the Compare
Task Pane on the Compare Geometry
result tab 
.
During face comparison, the Compare utility compares the position
of vertex coordinates and some surface points of face pairs. Vertices
or points that lie within a specified position tolerance are considered
identical.
Perform
volume comparison. Calculates the material removed or added, and
common volume. At the end of the comparison. The results are shown in
the Compare Task Pane on the Compare Geometry result tab .
Color
See Features
Tab above.
Report
See Features
Tab above.