 | CATIA V4 DXF/DWG Interface (DXF) allows you to translate the 2D geometry and simple 3D geometry to CATIA and back. Users include architects, plant designers, and even engineers who are designing simple mechanical parts, and these users often start their design in 2D on entry CAD systems. It also gives them the possibility to easily upgrade to CATIA AEC solution. With the wide usage of the DXF (Data eXchangeFormat) and DWG (DraWinG) formats, the mechanical design industry will also derive significant benefit from a CATIA-based interface product. DXF can upload design data to the CATIA Solutions system or download a model to another CAD/CAM system. You can exchange engineering drawings and wireframe with all the accompanying texts, annotations, details, views, patterns. The administrator may customize the conversion environment to ensure that the models are compliant with company requirements. With DXF, you can open a DXF or DWG file into a CATIA session as simply as they can open a CATIA model. Features - Provides a direct and neutral interface for the translation of data between CATIA Solutions and other CAD/CAM systems
- Uses the known standard DXF
- Offers a direct DWG interface to AutoCAD
- Allows you to integrate your heterogeneous CAD/CAM systems
- Enables different departments to work with the same design database
- Performs bidirectional data exchange
- Produces the most appropriate data exchange entity based on customized parameters
- Opens DXF and DWG files directly into a CATIA session
- Includes a quick, intuitive means of saving the current CATIA model as a DXF or DWG file
- Offers interactive or batch conversion
- Creates an error checking log for each conversion
Key customer benefits - CAD data translation
DXF/DWG Interface enables architectural, plant design, and mechanical industry customers to integrate their CATIA Solutions with other CAD/CAM systems. DXF/DWG Interface uses DXF (Data eXchange Format), the de facto standard, as a neutral file format for bidirectional exchange of data with most PC-based CAD systems. For a direct interface with AutoCAD, Release 12 or 13, you can select the DWG (DraWinG) utility.
- Investment protection
DXF/DWG Interface provides you with multiple CAD/CAM systems the ability to easily exchange data between such departments as specification, design, manufacturing, and documentation. Using this simple interface, customers can integrate their entire design process regardless of the systems used in each department, resulting in investment protection.
- Bidirectional exchange
Whether a user needs to upload design data to the CATIA Solutions system or download a model to another CAD/CAM system, DXF/DWG Interface can handle the task. You can exchange 2D engineering drawings and simple wire frame designs with all the accompanying text, annotations, details, views, patterns, 2D and 3D simple geometry, and so on.
- Customizable mapping tables
Different options allow you to customize the data translation:
- Color mapping table
- Line font mapping table
- Thickness/width mapping table
- Layer mapping table
- Pattern mapping table
- No pick element transfers (Y/N)
- No show element transfers (Y/N)
- View management mapping options
The system administrator can establish conversion standards to ensure that the models are compliant with company requirements. Then the final user can select from among the translation options using simple Motif panels.
- Simplified file management
You can read a DXF or DWG file directly in a CATIA session just as if it were a CATIA model. Using the standard "FILE - SAVE AS" command, a user's CATIA model being viewed can be directly saved in the DXF or DWG file format.
- Interactive or batch conversion
You can perform data conversions on multiple models in a single operation through interactive or batch facilities. When using the interactive function, translation occurs in the background enabling the user to continue working in the CATIA session.
- Documenting log File
For every translation, DXF/DWG Interface creates a log file with the history of the transcription. This report provides information on the type and number of transcripted, failed and ignored instances.
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