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Featurev2.67

Compare real parts on every Paras Defence product

Compare now works on all seven Paras Defence products and on designs you build, not only the Agricopter. Click a connector, a torque motor, a slip ring, an encoder, a thermal core, a lens or a window heater and see real parts from other makers, checked against this design. Replace waits for the physics check, so one click can't break a design that works.

After: The BOSS pedestal at 1440 by 900 before, with Compare unavailable, and after, with real MIL-DTL-38999 connectors across the top and one compared beside the design
Before: The BOSS pedestal at 1440 by 900 before, with Compare unavailable, and after, with real MIL-DTL-38999 connectors across the top and one compared beside the design
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Before and after, BOSS pedestal at 1440 × 900

110 new sourced catalogue entries cover frameless torque motors and gearmotors, slewing rings and large bearings, encoders, slip rings, MIL-DTL-38999 Series III connectors, cooled and uncooled thermal cores, EO cameras, thermal zoom lenses and window heaters. Every entry cites the maker's own page or a maker-authored datasheet, and every estimated figure is marked est. with a tooltip.

What a part can be compared with now comes from what the part is (its kind, role and size), never from the product. Each kind has its own fit checks: envelope, mass, bore and bolt circle, torque and voltage, shell size and mount, band, pixel pitch and focal length. A missing figure caps the verdict at Needs changes and says which figure is missing.

A part made to the design, such as a housing, a flange or a mirror blank, says so and suggests a bought-in part to click instead. A bought-in kind the catalogue doesn't hold yet, such as a hydrogen cylinder, a seal or a dowel pin, says that plainly. The Agricopter's results are byte-for-byte what they were.

Replace stays off, marked Checking, until the physics check for that option is in, and it refuses an option that would make a passing design fail, saying why. The agent's swap_part uses the same rule, so it never fits a part Compare doesn't list. Undo is read aloud to screen readers, and the figures chip at the top left no longer runs under the view cube or the Compare strip.

Added
  • Compare on all seven Paras Defence products and on your own designs
  • 110 sourced market parts in 11 kinds
  • Fit checks per kind, with Good fit, Needs changes or Won't work
Improved
  • Undo and Redo are announced to screen readers
  • Plain words when nothing in the catalogue matches
Fixed
  • Replace could fit a part that broke a passing design
  • The agent could fit a part onto something Compare calls made to the design
  • Figures chip under the view cube at 1280 and 1440 wide
Try it

Open the BOSS pedestal, press Compare and click one of its connectors.

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