HD50667: FTA - SOME SURFACES CANNOT BE TOLERANCED WITH TOLERANCING ADVIS OR

APAR status

• Closed as Permanent restriction.

Error description

• Inside Functional Tolerancing and Annotation
  workbench, some surfaces of a CATPart (defined
  with Sheet Metal Design) cannot be toleranced
  Scenario:
  1- File / Open the CATPart file
  2- Start / Mechanical Design / Functional
  Tolerancing and Annotation
  3- Select one of the grey surfaces
  4- Select icon 'Tolerancing advisor'
  Result:
  ERROR Message
  "The last geometric element is not supported.
  The annotation will not be associated with this
  geometric element "
  .
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• FTA - Some surfaces cannot be toleranced with Tolerancing Advis
  or
  Inside Functional Tolerancing and Annotation
  workbench, some surfaces of a CATPart (defined
  with Sheet Metal Design) cannot be toleranced
  Scenario:
  1- File / Open the CATPart file
  2- Start / Mechanical Design / Functional
  Tolerancing and Annotation
  3- Select one of the grey surfaces
  4- Select icon 'Tolerancing advisor'
  Result:
  ERROR Message
  "The last geometric element is not supported.
  The annotation will not be associated with this
  geometric element "
  .
  

Problem conclusion

• THIS PROBLEM IS PERMANENT RESTRICTION IN
  CATIA
  Incident Diagnosis
  FTA - Some surfaces cannot be toleranced with
  Tolerancing Advisor
  Restriction Explanation
  Strong limitation of Sheetmetal design. The part
  has to be recreated with Generative Sheetmetal
  Design
  By-Pass
  The part has to be recreated with Generative
  Sheetmetal Design
  .
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

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