5. Migration Overview

Migration Overview This chapter gives an overview migrating data from one CAD system to another within the Teamcenter data management system. The definition of migration can mean the entire process the company goes through when converting from one CAD system to another. This process may include: 1. Managing CAD data in a new data management system. 2. Converting CAD data files from one CAD system to another. 3. Training users on a new CAD system. This focus of this guide is step 2, converting CAD data from another CAD system to NX using CMM. CMM provides the ability to:

• Migrate CAD data to NX using a managed process within Teamcenter. This includes configuring the migration process to match your company’s data management processes. It also includes generating reports on the migration status of each item.
• Migrate drawings while maintaining associativity to parts and assemblies.
• Perform fidelity checking on the migrated geometry to ensure accuracy.
• Migrate parts with modeling features. The alternative is to migrate only the surface boundary representation (B-Rep). The term translation is different from migration. Translation means converting the data from one CAD system to another, but normally does not include all the capabilities in this list. CMM and NXM do not provide two-way data flow between the originating CAD system and NX. Once data is migrated to NX, it cannot be migrated back.

Migration Overview