CATIA-CADAM Interface: Setting Options

To get to the CCD tab click Tools - Options in the menu bar; Compatibility (under General) in the left pane; and the CCD tab. This tab provides settings for:

Import

Standard
The element you import will be placed in a Drawing, the root document of Drafting.
This Drawing uses styles defined in a pre-defined or a customized standard such as ISO, JIS, ANSI, ASME.

CCD Symbol Catalog

This is the location of the CCD symbol table model V5 catalogs. Click the Open file button to navigate in the CCD Symbol Catalog Directory Browser to set or change the location for the directory.

Convert dimensions as
Select the required option:

Dimensions:
This option preserves the semantic of CADAM dimensions in V5 as best as possible.
In most cases, the whole semantic of the dimension is kept.
This means the position, the layout and the text are preserved.
The position, color, thickness, text caption (symbol, value, tolerance, font, color) can be edited.

Geometry:

Select this option to keep the graphical aspect. Geometry is exploded into multiple lines, arcs, texts.

By default, the option is set to Dimensions.

Convert splines as
Select the required option:

Splines:

This option will convert CADAM spline to CATIA spline.
Note: Since the calculation for the curve of the CATIA spline is different than that of the CADAM spline, the exact geometric compatibility is not assured.

Polylines:

This option assures exact geometric match between CADAM spline and CATIA spline. You can control the accuracy of the polyline by specifying the sag value (from 0.01mm to 10mm) in the Sag value box.
The sag value is used for calculating tessellation on a spline, which does not vary with spline size.
The sag value defines the chordal deviation for splines.
The "chordal deviation" represents the maximum distance between a polyline ("chord") whose end points lie on a curve and a point on this curve:

By default, the option is set to Splines.

 

Export

Covert splines as
Select the required option:

Splines:

This option will convert CATIA spline to CADAM spline.
Note: Since the calculation for the curve of the CATIA spline is different than that of the CADAM spline, the exact geometric compatibility is not assured.

Linear Splines:

This option assures exact geometric match between CATIA spline and CADAM spline. You can control the accuracy of linear splines by specifying the sag value (from 0.01mm to 10mm) in the Sag value box.
The sag value is used for calculating tessellation on a spline, which does not vary with spline size.
The sag value defines the chordal deviation for splines.
The "chordal deviation" represents the maximum distance between a linear spline ("chord") whose end points lie on a curve and a point on this curve:

By default, the option is set to Splines.

Covert line widths to line weights using CCD Style1 Mappings
When this option is selected, the CATIA line width is converted to CCD style 1 line weight using the mapping specified in the CCD Style1 Mappings. The resulting geometry in CCD does not have width. They have line weight only.
If this option clear, then the resulting geometry in CCD will retain the width from CATIA.

By default, this option is selected.

 

CCD Style1 Mappings
Mapping options apply to imported and exported drawings. These options are used to control geometry conversion between CATIA and CCD.

You can specify the mapping between CCD Style1 geometry, including line weights, and CATIA line types and line widths.

The line types and line widths specified are based on the drawing standard set in the Standard option.

 

CCD Style2 Mappings
You can specify the mapping between CCD Style2 geometry and V5 line types. Mappings are based on drawing standard.

Note: To see actual line types (not just the numbers), open a new drafting document using the standard specified and then examine these mappings. Not all drafting standards contain line types after line type 20.