Configuration Options (CMM options – CATIA V4)

Choose Options from the CMM menu. The Options dialog box displays a list of all the configuration options and the current values for each. Open the folders and subfolders to access the options and change the values. The summary list of the configuration options is also displayed when you click on an option category. The options are organized into the following categories and subcategories:

• Content Migration o Geometry o Entity Display Status o Electrical
• Application o Migration controls o Quarantine o Remigration o Phased Migration o Actions o Cleanup Scratch o NX Part o User Data o Services o Usability

CMM options – CATIA V4 Content Migration The Content Migration options define the content of the migrated item. Geometry The Geometry options define how the geometry of an item is migrated.

• Feature Feature options determine the behavior of geometric features and their history when migrated. o Geometry Healing Repairs all B-Rep geometry including B-Rep created for unsupported and failing features. This option applies to B-Reps whether features are migrated or just B-Reps are migrated. There are three possible choices, Minimum, Medium, or Maximum. You should start with Minimum, and only select other values if necessary. This option can cause modification of the B-Rep geometry, which may not be acceptable depending on your intended use/application of the part. o Fidelity Check If Fidelity Check is turned on, the reconstructed feature history geometry and imported B-Rep geometry is tested for completeness and accuracy against the original geometry. The migration is considered successful when Route Stock Length Difference is within the given values for Success Criteria Route Stock Length Difference % and Success Criteria Route Stock Length Difference (mm). The value for Success Criteria Max Deviation (mm) is used to compare the shape. The shape of the migrated model must be within the original shape plus or minus this value. o Assembly Constraints NX assembly constraints are added to migrated CATIA Routing components when the components are coincident within the specified values of Constraint angle tolerance (degrees) and Constraint distance tolerance (mm). If components are within the value of Constraint warning distance (mm), but not within the other tolerances, constraints are not created and a warning is issued. After adding NX assembly constraints, the position of components are checked to see that they are within the value for Position Fidelity Tolerance (meters). o Route Path Tolerance (mm) Tolerance distance to align route paths (mm). o Mass Property Tolerance Tolerance used to compute the mass property. Value is between 0.99 (low accuracy) and 0.999999 (high accuracy). Chapter 13: CMM options – CATIA V4

CMM options – CATIA V4 o Extract As Face Chain This option will translate Extract Body features as NX Extract Face features rather than Extract Body features.

• Options These options control the migration of specific objects from CATIA. o Include Exact Solid o Include Volume o Include Skin o Include Face o Include Surface o Include Curve o Include Point o Include Mock-up solid Depending on the construction method used in CATIA V4, selecting solids, volumes, faces, and surfaces at the same time may result in duplicate geometry. If the model was created as just an exact solid, there are no volumes or faces outside of that exact solid. o Filter Option Current Filter or All Filters Select one of these options to determine whether objects in the current CATIA V4 Filter are migrated, or all objects. o Translate NoShow Side This option determines whether hidden (not shown) objects are migrated. Deselect this option to filter hidden objects from the migration. o Layer options Items on the layers listed in the field Ignore items on layers... will not be migrated. Use commas as delimiters and hyphens to indicate ranges. For example, “1,5–10,13” will ignore items on layer 1, layers 5 through 10, and 13. This does not apply to AEC models. o Convert Model to Single Part For B-Rep models and models with a single workspace but no dittos, this option forces the contents of the .model file to be written as a single part (no product structure). This option does not apply to AEC models. o Ship Attribute Map File This option maps attributes for ship plates and profiles. Specify the path and file name of the file that contains the mapping for the attribute names. To use this functionality, you need to create an XML file to identify the attributes that CMM will use to identify the ship parts. The XML file is structured as follows:

CMM options – CATIA V4

CMM options – CATIA V4 Entity Display Status These options determine the visibility of various geometry objects after migration. When a check box is selected, the corresponding objects are hidden in the migrated file.

• Hide Sketches
• Hide Reference planes
• Hide Reference curves
• Hide Reference axes
• Hide Reference points
• Hide Reference CSYS
• Hide Surface features Electrical These options define how electrical data is migrated.
• Build Native Routing Path Turn this option on to create associative routing paths.
• Native Routing Path Fit tolerance (mm) This field specifies the routing path fit tolerance.
• Success Criteria routing Path Length Difference % This field specifies the routing path length tolerance as a percent.
• Success Criteria Routing Path Length Difference (mm) This field specifies the routing path length absolute tolerance in millimeters. Chapter 13: CMM options – CATIA V4

CMM options – CATIA V4