Helix Migration Workshop SUBJECT Helix V 4 R

Helix Migration Workshop SUBJECT: Helix V 4 R 3 Migration to CCD and CATIA V 5 on Windows NAME: Pierre Devaux for Ozzie Marquez October 3, 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES WKG 1 & 2 HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 200010031

HELIX MIGRATION METHODS o DXF OR DWG – (GOOD, BUT SOME RE-WORK) o MCXTRAN – (SUPERIOR RESULTS) DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES o NURESTOR – (BETTER, BUT HAS LIMITATIONS) HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 200010032

HELIX MIGRATION o IT’S FREE!!! o 99% TRANSLATION. o TRANSFERS SINGLE HELIX MODELS TO CCD INTERACTIVELY OR MULTIPLE MODELS IN BATCH. o NO MODEL SIZE LIMITATION. o CCD MODELS WILL REQUIRE 30 -50% LESS SPACE. o ONCE THE HELIX MODEL IS CONVERTED TO CCD, CATIA V 5 CAN THEN OPEN THE MODEL. DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES FEATURES OF THE MCXTRAN DIRECT TRANSLATOR HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 200010033

HELIX MIGRATION SUPPORTED RELEASES o Helix 2000 V 4 R 3 or Helix 2000 V 5 o CATIA V 5 R 4 DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES o CATIA-CADAM Drafting (CCD) V 423 or V 5 R 4 HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 200010034

HELIX MIGRATION SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS o Windows NT and 2000 * Helix data files MUST reside on an NTFS formatted drive * NTFS (read-only) file system driver for Windows 95 and 98 is available free from: www. sysinternals. com/ntfs 98. htm (DSA IS EVALUATING) o UNIX: AIX V 432 and above DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES o Windows 95 and 98 HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 200010035

HELIX MIGRATION PACKAGE, AVAILABLE FOR WINDOWS AND AIX FROM www. cadam. com CONTAINS: o A Detailed Migration Guide o The Batch Utility o Character Mapping Tables DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES o The Translator HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 200010036

HELIX MIGRATION PACKAGE FILES IN THE PACKAGE: o To get the package go to www. cadam. com. From the MICROCADAM User Center/Helix Migration Package page, download Helix. Migration. Pkg_0918. exe o The package contains: * The Migration Guide in HTML format Ÿ BinMcxtranv 4. exe (the translator) Ÿ Binbulkxfer. exe (the batch utility) * Mapping Tables (copy to corresponding CCDraft directory) Ÿ Profileconverttablescad 8859 -1_ucs-2. map Ÿ Profileconverttableshelix-8859_ucs-2. map DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES * Executables (copy to corresponding CCDraft directory) HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 200010037

HELIX MIGRATION PACKAGE FILES IN THE PACKAGE (con’t): * GPHIGS Font Tables (copy to corresponding CCDraft directory). Ÿ Gphigsfont_u. 001, 002, 033, 035, 036 & 241 * Sample Color Map File (copy to corresponding CCDraft directory) © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES Ÿ Plotcolor_map DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 200010038

REQUIREMENTS TRANSLATOR REQUIREMENTS o Helix Drafting, Access, the Helix File Server, as well as CCD, must be installed on the PC where the translation will be done. o MCXTRAN must have access to Helix’s Access and the Helix database (mcadam). * Define the environment variable MCXVOL=C: mcadam * Add to the PATH: C: HdsDraftingBinwin DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES * No additional license is required to run mcxtran. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 200010039

REQUIREMENTS TRANSLATOR REQUIREMENTS (con’t) o The mcadam directory must be on an NTFS drive. o The drawings must be in a group, user directory structure with the long MC File Name format: . . 120006808160000006808160033333237333634202020202042303034 n 1 ……vvvv o The BULKXFER utility requires that a group called BULK and a user called XFER be defined. * These are working directories and all files are deleted when done. * There must be enough disk space to accommodate the largest sub-directory to be processed. DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES * HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 2000100310

REQUIREMENTS TRANSLATOR REQUIREMENTS (con’t) o Windows does not allow special characters in the file name such as asterisks or quotation marks. Two mapping tables are provided in CCD to resolve this problem: C: CCDraftProfileConvertTablesucs-2_name-8859. map * The character mapping will be done on the file name, plot-data’s format overplot name, and the overlay member list. DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES C: CCDraftProfileConvertTablesname-8859_ucs-2. map HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 2000100311

BATCH PROCESSING BULKXFER o Supports both OS File Name (. MCD) and MC File Name formats. * If processing. MCD files, bulkxfer will first convert these files to models (MC format) into the group, user BULK, XFER. Ÿ Multi-file Helix tables are merged into single-file CCD symbol tables Ÿ It creates new symbol table pages o Processes format overplots (sys, format) Ÿ Format models are converted to CCD models Ÿ Helix format model information is appended to the current CCD format table. This table is then sorted. DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES o Processes symbol and font tables (sys, symbol) HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 2000100312

BATCH PROCESSING © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES BULKXFER’S SAMPLE OS FILE FORMAT SCREEN

BATCH PROCESSING © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES BULKXFER’S SAMPLE MC FILE FORMAT SCREEN

HELIX MIGRATION PROCEDURE RECOMMENDED MIGRATION PROCEDURE o Make sure mcxtranv 4 is running in the background. o Then, using bulkxfer, transfer each subgroup (user). DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES o Use bulkxfer to process the symbol, formats and font tables first. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 2000100315

INTERACTIVE SETUP DEFINE A CADAM FILE SYSTEM © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES o

INTERACTIVE SETUP © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES START CCD AND SET REMOTE SYSTEM

INTERACTIVE SETUP © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES CLICK ON REMOTE, THEN FILE OPEN. ENTER GROUP AND PRESS ENTER. SELECT USER AND DOUBLE-CLICK ON HELIX MODEL NAME. DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 2000100318

OLDER VERSIONS MICROCADAM PLUS R 14. X MUST BE MIGRATED TO HELIX V 4 BEFORE MIGRATING TO CCD. o MIGRATION TOOLS * R 14 file. exe (calls & refiles all models) * R 14 Data Manager Fix Model * DMNDOS Export/Import * R 14 Server DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES * Remote Function Key HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 2000100319