Option Presolve and the Master Set

You can create a master set which will indicate all the options and their combinations available for a particular project. An option combination consists of option groups that you select for presolving before creating a master set. Each option group can contain several options. You can have an option combination presolved whenever you want and then add the completed drawings to the master sets. While solving an option combination, option combination-specific material databases are created. Using these databases, you can run material reports later of the different option combinations of the model.

The presolve of options requires that the Master Sets add-on feature is available to you, and the keyword master_set_config= 1 is set in the BDSXX keyword group.

• Managing Option Groups
• Selecting Option Groups to Be Solved And Drawings to Be Created
• Solving and Updating an Option Configuration
• Managing Drawing Sheets
• Adding a Drawing to a Sheet
• Defining Comparison Between Option Groups in the ± Database
• Creating a Differential BOM

Note

• Option presolving is available from the Vertex BD 12.1 version onwards. In the previous software versions, the master sets were based on drawing sheets. When you start using a master set based on option combinations, move the templates folder from the project's opt_sheets folder to the MS folder.

Parallel use of methods

Your project archive may contain projects, the master sets of which were created with the old method based on drawing sheets. If you want to use the drawing-sheet and option-combination methods at the same time, you can determine which method to use for each project. In a situation like this, make the following settings:

• In the BDSXX keyword group, set the keyword

  master_set_config= 0

• Add the keyword MASTER_SET to the PARAMETERS file of each project. Set its value to either of the following:
  • MASTER_SET= 0 - The old method based on drawing sheets is to be used in the project. The drawing sheets are saved in the project's opt_sheets folder.
  • MASTER_SET= 1 - The new method based on option combinations is to be used in the project. The drawing sheets are saved in the project's MS folder.

With these settings, you can select functions according to the old and the new method from the Master Set menu.

Comparing Material Quantities Between Option Groups
Master Set Based on Drawing Sheets
Option System Functions
Editing Keywords