IMPACT Resource Manager settings are vital in setting up and maintaining the company production settings and environment. Settings are divided into two section (see figure 1).

Figure 1, Settings I and Settings II for the Resource Manager

The settings tab in the resource manager contains five separate tabs.

• Properties
• Invoice Address
• Cost Estimation
• Pallet
• Automation

Properties

Figure 2, Resource Manager main settings

Properties tab

Under the properties tab, there are four settings

• General
• Transport
• Stack
• Cast

Under the general tab, there are six possible settings:

• Company Name
• Date Format
• Message Log Life Time
• Drawing Planning
  • Set to Yes if you don’t want to allow users to set an element as ready for production when the drawing is still preliminary.
• Open Drawings
  • Set to no if you don’t want the user to be able to open drawings from the Cast and Transport modules, otherwise; select the formats to be made available.
• Company Range Separator
  • Specifies the separator that is to be used for element range searches.

Figure 3, Settings – Properties – General tab

Under the transport tab, there are five settings (also see figure 4):

• Delivery Planning
  • Set to ‘Yes’ in order to disable the users from settings the delivery time in the element ID grid
• Match Transport Factory
  • Set to Yes if notify the user that they have planned transport at a factory different factory than manufacturing
• Can Reverse Transport Status
  • Set to No to disable the user from reverse transport status
• Max Transport Rows
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• Initialized Text Fields
  • Set to Yes if you want a to have field 1-4 in the next planned transport to be copied from the previously planned transport.

Figure 4, Settings – Properties – Transport tab

Under the Stack tab, there are two settings (also see figure 5):

• Default Stack Status
  • Sets the default status of a stack, set to Preliminary or planned
• Can Reverse Stack Status
  • Provides a possibility to disable the user from reversing the status of a stack, set to No to do so.

Figure 5, Settings – Properties – Stack tab

Under the Cast tab, there are eight settings (also see figure 6):

• Production Planning
  • Set to yes to disable the user from setting the production date in in the element ID grid. This also requires an element to be in status-type produced in order for the user to set it as delivered.
• No of Cast Report Pictures
  • The Number of pictures that the form is divided into when printing a cast report with pictures.

And then there are the Mandatory Cast Planning Conditions settings:

• Sales Project Name
  • Set to yes if cast/element status set to produced in not allowed
• Price
  • Set to yes if cast/element status produced is to be disabled if element price is missing
• Time
  • Set to yes if cast/element status produced is to be disabled if element time is missing
• Mass
  • Set to yes if cast/element status produced is to be disabled if element mass is missing
• Area
  • Set to yes if cast/element status produced is to be disabled if element area is missing
• Group
  • Set to yes if cast/element status produced is to be disabled if element group is missing

Figure 6, Settings – Properties – Cast tab

(Invoice Address)

Cost Estimation

Under the Cost Estimation tab, there are four settings (see figure 7). There are four settings:

• Currency Symbol (for e.g. kr for Swedish Krona)
• Framework and Form Time
  • Recesses Without Name
  • Not Cut Through Recesses
  • Recesses Area Less Than 0.1 m2
  • Group By

Figure 7, Settings – Cost Estimation

Pallet

Under the Pallet tab (see figure 8), there are two settings:

• Production Stack Count
• Production Stack Size

Figure 8, Settings – Pallet

Automation

Under the automation tab (see figure 9), there are four drop-downs:

• BVBS Settings
  • Save File Location
  • Subfolder
  • Drawing Number
  • Naming of files
• PXML Settings
  • Save File Location
  • Subfolder
  • Drawing Number
  • Naming of Files
• Unitechnik Settings
  • Original File Location
  • Save File Location
• AX Settings
  • Save File Location

Figure 9, Settings – Automation

Another part of the settings is in the tree view, this is described under the section Settings II.