Create and Manage Coordination Rules

Coordination rules are triggers from tags. In Clash Manager, rules are created to fine-tune the workload and the focus of the coordination.

A best practice is to create discipline focused rules. For example, when you clash piping/plumbing versus steel, then make the piping/plumbing your primary tag and steel your secondary tag. This type of rule groups related steel clashes to a single piping/plumbing clash.

Considerations

Admin and Standard users can create coordination rules. Read-only users can also create coordination rules but cannot save any actions to the project.

Rules that are linked to issues are locked and cannot be modified.

Steps

To open the Clash manager, go to Logic > Clash Manager.

Create a coordination rule

  1. In the Rules tab, click the Add icon. The Rule definition dialog box shows.

  2. Enter a name in the Title field.

  3. Select a Primary Tag Name and Primary Tag Value.

  4. Select a Secondary Tag Name and Secondary Tag Value.

  5. Add Tolerance Settings as needed. For more information, see Tolerance Settings.

  6. Select the Include Objects From Same Model Stream checkbox if your primary and secondary tags are within the same model stream.

Edit a coordination rule

  1. Select a rule from the list.

  2. Click the Edit icon. The Rule definition dialog box opens.

  3. Make your rule definition changes in the Rule Definition dialog box.

  4. Click the Save Rule Definition button.

To view the Rules and Results tab side-by-side, click the Expand icon at the bottom left of the panel.

Export rules

  1. Click the Export icon.

  2. Select Export All Rules… or Export Selected Rules.... The export file is saved in a .cr file extension in xml format.

Import rules

  1. Click the Import icon.

  2. Select the file to import, and then click the Import button.

    When importing, the tags identified in the rules are created as tags in the project if they do not already exist.