/Catia translator

Benefits Summary t Translate Catia data in an Solid Edge®/Catia translator software is a powerful migration tool for Solid efficient and effective Edge users who need to reference Catia data from their customers and/or manner suppliers in their product designs. By translating Catia data from and to Solid t Work with suppliers or Edge, companies can expect an increase in design communication, quality customers in a more and productivity, as well as significant cost savings. Whether it’s designing cohesive manner tooling or components for an assembly, it no longer matters if customers or t Create better designs, suppliers are using Catia data. Solid Edge provides the right tools to help you enhance communications, stay ahead of the competition and provide data in a timely, cost effective increase customer manner. satisfaction and deliver significant cost savings

Features t Users can easily leverage the translator’s bidirectional capabilities when handling Catia files t The heal and sew option allows you to “heal” free surfaces and solids when importing them into Solid Edge t Solid Edge automatically specifies a stitch tolerance range, so you are not required to specify a stitch range or tolerance t The Solid Edge/Catia translator is a separately purchasable item available in both node locked and floating licenses t The batch processor provides the ability to import one or more Catia .model files

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Solid Edge/Catia translator

The Solid Edge/Catia translator provides This batch processor provides the ability to t Boolean solids – This option specifies Solid Edge users with the ability to import one or more Catia .model files, or that you want to Boolean all solid bodies translate Catia data in an efficient and export one or more x_t, part or sheetmetal together to form a solid or a disjoint effective manner. Importing or exporting files to .model format. solid body and then insert these bodies Catia model files with the Solid Edge/Catia into Edge Bar as a part copy. This option translator allows design engineers to work On Import, the Solid Edge/Catia translator is on by default. If the option is off, all with suppliers or customers in a more has an option to: solid bodies are added as individual part cohesive manner. With the Catia translator, t Heal and stitch – This option specifies copies to Edge Bar. users can design parts or assemblies in that you want to heal and stitch the free Solid Edge and then translate data into the surfaces to create a solid body. Solid When exporting data from Solid Edge to required Catia format – or read in Catia Edge automatically specifies a stitch Catia, you can filter what type of data you data and continue designs in Solid Edge. tolerance range, so you are not required want to export: The benefits of using the Solid Edge/Catia to specify a range. translator are clear – better designs, Export solids (constructions) Specifies enhanced communication and an increase This option allows you to “heal” free that you want to export any construction in customer satisfaction. surfaces and solids when importing geometry that exists as solid bodies. them into Solid Edge. Healing involves The Solid Edge/Catia translator provides preparing the free surfaces for stitching Export sheets (constructions) Specifies bi-directional translation capabilities for and the cleaning of solid bodies. Solid that you want to export any construction Catia files, extending Solid Edge Edge cleans the faces to resolve geometry that exists as sheet bodies. translation capabilities for opening foreign underlying problems such as self- data to help you in markets where Catia intersection, multiple intersections or Export wires (constructions) and general translation is necessary. edges equal to or smaller than the Specifies that you want to export any minimum stitching tolerance. Once the construction geometry that exists as wire The translator is capable of reading Catia faces are cleaned, Solid Edge identifies bodies. 4.1.9 and 4.2.X (up to 4.2.4) and will write and removes sheets that are invalid due Catia 4.1.9. A separate module is also to bad trimming curves, or sheets that Export displayed only Specifies that you available for reading and writing Catia 5 result in slivers. want to export only the active model and files. Both translators support single part construction geometry that is visible in the files, or multiple bodies can be opened t Stitch surfaces – The Solid Edge/Catia part or assembly. into a Solid Edge assembly. translator reads and translates surface data from the Catia model file. When Templates supported in Solid Edge are stitching is enabled (default setting) all .asm, .prt, .psm. Data can have several surfaces will be stitched. Solid Edge options applied together, such as stitch automatically specifies a stitch tolerance surfaces and Boolean solids. Solids can range, so you are not required to specify also be feature recognized if Feature a range. If the stitching operation Recognizer also has been purchased. The creates a valid volume, the volume is Solid Edge/Catia translator is a separately converted to a solid. purchasable item available in both node locked and floating licenses.

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