TN 17: Naming of Output files for CATIA Translator

BG      Scope: Web  By:  

 

Applies To: CATIA2SolidWorks, CATIA2SolidEdge, CATIAV5ToSolidWorks, CATIAV5ToSolidEdge
 
New version of translators support the RadialSoft Naming extension mechanism.
This system is made to allow companies to customize the file names produced either to standardize them or to connect the translator to the PDM system.
 
Start with TN 16 for a complete explanation of the Naming System.
 
List of Reasons
 
The reason is the 4th parameter of Naming System.
 
example:
If reason number 3 is used the Naming System will look for "OutputFormatString3". If it is empty it will look into "OutputFormatString".
 
When we deal with the CATIA translators the following reasons are used:

  1. Inside the Translator this allow to create a file name for every model inside an export file. This filename may not correspond to a resulting file but it is created and used as input file name for reasons 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. As it is done for .model the number will be 0 so that the input file is not changed.
  2. For the batch translator to create the name of  the log SldLoader.xml
    also used for the     DumpLog.xml of RSCATIADiag and .htm dump of RSCATIADump.exe
  3. For the batch translator to create the name of  the semaphore file SldLoader.sem
  4. When creating part for Tesselated Solids (based on output of 1).
  5. When creating parts for wireframe definitions (based on output of 1).
  6. When creating parts for other wireframe definitions (based on output of 1).
  7. When creating assemblies (based on output of 1).
  8. When creating parts for Solids (based on output of 1).
  9. Not used yet.
  10. When creating assemblies for all parts of a directory.
As a consequence of reuse of result of reason 1 into 4,5,6,7,8 if you use a subdiretory in OutputFormatString1 you don't need to change it again for reason 4,5,6,7,8. An alternative is to set 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and not 1.
 

List of Registry settings
 
Below "CURRENT_USER/Software/RadialSoft/SECATIA" for CATIA 2 SolidEdge
Below "CURRENT_USER/Software/RadialSoft/SldCATIA" for CATIA 2 SolidWorks
 
Usually SubPath is "Default"
 
SubPath/PDMInterface
SubPath/OutputFormatString
SubPath/SavePath
SubPath/Script    absolute path to script file (.vbs)
 
 
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