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DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum

Helix Migration Workshop

WKG 1 & 2

SUBJECT: Helix V4R3 Migration to CCD and CATIA V5 on

Windows

NAME: Pierre Devaux for Ozzie Marquez

October 3, 2000


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MIGRATION METHODS

DXF OR DWG – (GOOD, BUT SOME RE-WORK)

NURESTOR – (BETTER, BUT HAS LIMITATIONS)

MCXTRAN – (SUPERIOR RESULTS)

HELIX MIGRATION


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FEATURES OF THE MCXTRAN DIRECT TRANSLATOR

IT’S FREE!!! 99% TRANSLATION. TRANSFERS SINGLE HELIX MODELS TO CCD

INTERACTIVELY OR MULTIPLE MODELS IN BATCH. NO MODEL SIZE LIMITATION. CCD MODELS WILL REQUIRE 30-50% LESS SPACE. ONCE THE HELIX MODEL IS CONVERTED TO CCD,

CATIA V5 CAN THEN OPEN THE MODEL.

HELIX MIGRATION


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SUPPORTED RELEASES

Helix 2000 V4R3 or Helix 2000 V5

CATIA-CADAM Drafting (CCD) V423 or V5R4

CATIA V5R4

HELIX MIGRATION


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SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS

Windows NT and 2000 Helix data files MUST reside on an NTFS formatted

drive

Windows 95 and 98 NTFS (read-only) file system driver for Windows 95 and

98 is available free from: www.sysinternals.com/ntfs98.htm

(DSA IS EVALUATING)

UNIX: AIX V432 and above

HELIX MIGRATION


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HELIX MIGRATION PACKAGE, AVAILABLE FOR WINDOWS AND AIX FROM www.cadam.com CONTAINS:

A Detailed Migration Guide The Translator The Batch Utility Character Mapping Tables

HELIX MIGRATION PACKAGE


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FILES IN THE PACKAGE:

To get the package go to www.cadam.com. From the MICROCADAM User Center/Helix Migration Package page, download HelixMigrationPkg_0918.exe

The package contains: The Migration Guide in HTML format

Executables (copy to corresponding CCDraft directory) Bin\Mcxtranv4.exe (the translator)

Bin\bulkxfer.exe (the batch utility)

Mapping Tables (copy to corresponding CCDraft directory) Profile\convert\tables\cad8859-1_ucs-2.map

Profile\convert\tables\helix-8859_ucs-2.map



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FILES IN THE PACKAGE (con’t):

GPHIGS Font Tables (copy to corresponding CCDraft directory).

Gphigs\font_u.001, 002, 033, 035, 036 & 241

Sample Color Map File (copy to corresponding CCDraft directory)

Plot\color_map



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TRANSLATOR REQUIREMENTS

Helix Drafting, Access, the Helix File Server, as well as CCD, must be installed on the PC where the translation will be done.

No additional license is required to run mcxtran.

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:\Hds\Drafting\Binwin

REQUIREMENTS


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TRANSLATOR REQUIREMENTS (con’t)

The mcadam directory must be on an NTFS drive.

The drawings must be in a group,user directory structure with the long MC File Name format:

..12000680816000000680816003333323733363420202020202020202042303034n1 ……vvvv

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.

REQUIREMENTS


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TRANSLATOR REQUIREMENTS (con’t)

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:\CCDraft\Profile\Convert\Tables\name-8859_ucs-2.map

C:\CCDraft\Profile\Convert\Tables\ucs-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.

REQUIREMENTS


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BULKXFER

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.

Processes symbol and font tables (sys,symbol) Multi-file Helix tables are merged into single-file CCD symbol tables

It creates new symbol table pages

Processes format overplots (sys,format) Format models are converted to CCD models

Helix format model information is appended to the current CCD format table. This table is then sorted.

BATCH PROCESSING


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BULKXFER’S SAMPLE OS FILE FORMAT SCREEN

BATCH PROCESSING


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BULKXFER’S SAMPLE MC FILE FORMAT SCREEN

BATCH PROCESSING


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RECOMMENDED MIGRATION PROCEDURE

Make sure mcxtranv4 is running in the background.

Use bulkxfer to process the symbol, formats and font tables first.

Then, using bulkxfer, transfer each subgroup (user).

HELIX MIGRATION PROCEDURE


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DEFINE A CADAM FILE SYSTEM RUN \CCDraft\cadprof.exe

INTERACTIVE SETUP


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START CCD AND SET REMOTE SYSTEM

INTERACTIVE SETUP


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CLICK ON REMOTE, THEN FILE OPEN. ENTER GROUP AND PRESS ENTER. SELECT USER AND DOUBLE-CLICK ON HELIX MODEL NAME.

INTERACTIVE SETUP


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MICROCADAM PLUS R14.X MUST BE MIGRATED TO HELIX V4 BEFORE MIGRATING TO CCD.

MIGRATION TOOLS R14file.exe (calls & refiles all models)

R14 Data Manager Fix Model

Remote Function Key

DMNDOS Export/Import

R14 Server

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