The UNIVERSAL CATIA to JT CADverter is a direct database converter between both CATIA V4 and CATIA V5 Modelling Applications and the JT file format, used by the Siemens visualization products. It enables the user to convert all forms of 3 Dimensional Mechanical Design Geometry and Assembly data, together with system defined attribute information and colour information, between these systems.
This single translator accepts all combinations of CATIA V4 or CATIA V5 data and processes it directly into the Siemens JT file format. Therefore it doesn't matter if the CATIA V4 data is in EXPORT, MODEL, SESSION or CATIA V4 Assembly Modeller format, they are all seamlessly processed from CATIA to the JT file format. In addition when processing CATIA V5 data, the same translator is capable of processing all combinations of CATProduct or CATPart files or even CATProducts that include references to native CATIA V4 models. Therefore this single UNIVERSAL CATIA to JT CADverter will satisfy all requirements for processing any format of CATIA data into the JT visualization file format.
The translator may be operated in either an interactive or batch mode. The command line interface allows the conversion process to be integrated into any process oriented operation e.g. create a JT representation of the data while saving the data to a Data Vault. Alternatively the translation process may be operated by using the standard Graphical User Interface (GUI). The GUI methodology ensures that casual users are able to make effective use of the product without needing to remember complex command syntax.
To improve the performance of an overall translation process, the user may select subsets of the input CATIA data to be processed. Focusing the translator to process only those specific geometry elements required reduces the overall processing time taken to process the data and eliminates the need to post process the output data. |
