Customizing External Formats Import

 
  If you have the SolidWorks, SolidEdge or Acis Plug-In license, the following categories of options will be available:
You imported a CAD Part  through the Insert ->Existing Component command.
 

Visu Format Unit
 
 

Millimeters per unit

This setting allows you to specify the number of millimeters per unit of the model. For instance, if you have a file in inch, you need to enter 25.4 in this field.

This option is taken into account when you have the following formats: SLP, STL, OBJ, BYU, IFF and _PS.

Note: For a file of type _PS, the Visu Format Unit must be set to 10.

 

Preferred Conversion Technology
 
 

Indirect

A CAD license will be used (available for DELMIA product line only).

By default, this option is deactivated.

Direct

No CAD license will be used.

Support of ProE files up to Wildfire version.
Support of UG data up to NX.
For Solidworks, SolidEdge, Parasolid, ACIS, DXF 3D, Inventor and VDA-FS: the direct mode will be used for those formats whatever the setting is. (These formats are supported on Windows only.)

By default, this option is activated.
If there is only one converter available, either Direct or Indirect, then it will be used, whatever the setting is.
 

Link Mode
 
 

Visu

Tesselated data.

By default, this option is activated.
 

Visu Snap

Recovery of CAD's exact geometry to generate V5 CGR. Canonical shape properties are identified. The visualization mode enables part snapping capability. After selecting this option, this message appears: "Please, restart session to take modifications into account".
 

CATPart

Link with a V5 CATPart. Do not modify this CATPart in CATIA V5.
 

Others
 
 

Save Coorsys in Cgr

Stores part coordinate systems in .cgr file. It is only supported in the indirect mode. This parameter determines whether coordinate systems present in imported ProE, UG or IDEAS parts will be imported into the resulting CGR files.
 

Output of generated data
 
 

Output Path

Lets you customize the Output File for generated data. It specifies the location where CGR and CATParts will be generated.
  If you have the IDEAS, ProEngineer or Unigraphics Plug-In licenses, additional options will appear in the External Formats tab.

With the IDEAS Plug-In license, you obtain:

IDEAS (direct mode)
 
 

IDI 3D Annotation (CATPart mode only)

Select this option to convert IDI 3D Annotations to V5 (requires one of the following licenses):

  • CATIA: FT1.prd or FTA.prd
  • ENOVIA: DT1.prd
  • DELMIA: MTR.prd or MFT.prd
 

IDEAS (indirect mode)

 

Tesselation Parameter

Parameter of IDEAS chordal deviation. The Tesselation parameter holds the value tessellating the surfaces contained by the I-DEAS parts.
 

Project Name

This parameter is only used when converting data through the MS8 and MS9 based converter.This parameter must hold the name of the project under which the model file is being converted, and is registered, in the I-DEAS Data Management system.
 

Library Name

Pkg import (IDEAS package file) is the name of the library to transfer.
 

Part or Assembly Name

You can select any kind of data you want to read from the pkg file Part or Assembly and specify its name.
 

Part Number

This setting is optional, you can specify the part number you want to transfer.
 

Revision Number

This setting is optional, you can specify the revision number you want to transfer.
 

ProEngineer
 
  With the ProEngineer Plug-In license:
 

Quilts Read

Enables to activate the transfer of quilts surfaces inside CGR. This setting does not apply to NCGM or CATPart conversions.

By default, this option is not activated.
 

Simplified Representation

Only part simplified representation is supported. To set the name of the part simplified representation to use before the Assembly conversion, check this box and enter the name.

By default, this option is not activated.
 

Instance Name

When you want to import a specific instance of a generic assembly/part, check this button and specify the name of the instance of your choice.

By default, this option is not activated.
  • For Simplified Representation and Instance Name, only upper case names are supported with the direct converter.
  • xpr files must be on the disk for proper support of Part Instances conversion. (Direct mode only)

Unigraphics (indirect mode only)
 
And with the Unigraphics Plug-In license:

Layers

String indicating the layers that need to be transferred during conversion. The syntax is:

*  : all layers are transferred by default
5, 8, 27  : only layers 5, 8, 27 are transferred.
8-32  : all layers from 8 up to 32 (including 8 and 32) are transferred.
2, 5, 8-32  : layers 2, 5 and all layers from 8 up to 32 (including 8 and 32) are transferred.

Convert active layers only

If this option is activated, it enables to transfer only active layers or to transfer all types of layers (active and inactive). It can be used together with the previous Layers setting, in that case only layers that are compliant with those two settings will be transferred.

By default, this option is activated.

Convert open surfaces

If this option is activated, it enables to transfer UG Open Surfaces during the conversion.

By default, this option is not activated.

Drawing Name

This setting is used in Batch mode only, while creating a CATDrawing. In this box you can specify the name of the drawing you want to transfer.