Setting Preferences

Preferences for FMEA addressing different aspects can be set in the preferences menu, as well as the FMEA document properties.

Preferences Menu

You can open the preferences menu either from the menu bar (Edit > Preferences), or by making a right-click in the editor.

Thereafter, the dialog with all the settings for SOX will open. Clicking on FMEA will show you the General Editor Settings:

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• Figure width: you can choose the width of the boxes representing the elements in the FMEA editor. Possible values are 100 to 999.

• Set a check mark to allow animations.

• Show comments as a tool tip: if you activate this, every comment will be shown as an overlay tool tip when the mouse cursor hovers above an object in the editor.

Click on the triangle in front of FMEA, or double-click FMEA; then the list expands:

• Form sheet / Control Plan: showing / hiding responsibilities and comments and adjusting the layout to fit the window width.

  • Form sheet: adjust the layout according to the catalogs, choose how many levels of effects are shown and how many levels of the causes are shown.

• Structure details: select the information to be shown.

• For the "PSS" view you can filter what is shown, and you can decide how the view expands when opening it and when adding parts.

• You have filtering options for the function net view and the malfunction net view.

• Action groups: you have options to decide whether the system will open dialogs to ask things in certain situations regarding action groups.

• Risk matrix: you have options to adjust the size and to hide columns. You can also change the style of the risk matrix from the VDA style (red, yellow, green) to the RG style (red and green). You can change the detection value split for the RG style. You can decide which squares of the risk matrix have which color. You do this by selecting a square, and then clicking on one of the buttons labeled with a color name. You can select multiple squares at once by holding Ctrl while clicking.

• Pareto analysis: you can adjust the x- and y-axis and change the labeling of the axis and the diagrams title. You can also show grid lines.

Document properties

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In the repository view right-click on the project and choose Document properties to open the "Properties for Project …" dialog. On the left click on DFMEA Formsheet.

On the right you see the mapping between action statuses and FMEA steps 5 or 6. Select an entry and move it to the right or left by clicking the right/left arrow button.