CrossManager 2014

Reference Manual

DATAKIT

CrossManager 2014 PRELUDE

The following document defines the whole application CrossManager designed to convert 3D models, from any format of the list of available input format to any of the list of available output format.

New in this version: Conversion of Rhino 4 and Rhino 5 files (.3dm) Conversion of DWG 3D files (.dwg) Support of SolidWorks files in version 2014 Support of UG NX files in version 9 (see table in appendix for available combinations)

The configuration file dtkConfig.dtk is now located in the following folder: C:\Users\[user_name]\AppData\Roaming\Datakit\CrossManager as shown in the dialog box under "Configure":

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To begin with
1 2 3 4 CONFIGURATION REQUIREMENTS LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION CROSSMANAGER INSTALLATION 5

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4.1 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION 4.2 LICENSE INSTALLATION 5 6 HOW TO REMOVE CROSSMANAGER TECHNICAL SUPPORT

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Product overview
1. CONTEXTUAL MENU (right button of mouse) 2. INPUT FORMAT 3. OUTPUT FORMAT 4. OUTPUT FOLDER (IF REQUIRED) 5. FILE SELECTION AND LIST CREATION 6. LIST MANIPULATION BEFORE CONVERSION 7. LIST MANIPULATION AFTER CONVERSION 8. CONFIGURE

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To begin with
1.CONFIGURATION REQUIREMENTS
CrossManager is delivered by downloading crossmanager_2014_installer_xxbit.zip containing the installation program of the current release for Windows (NT4 / 2000/XP/Vista/7/8). 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available. The hardware configuration (i.e. processor speed, RAM, etc.) mostly depends on the size of the files that have to be converted. However, 2 GHz CPU, 1024 MB of RAM are recommended. The installation of CrossManager will take about 150 MB on your hard drive disk.

2. LANGUAGE
CrossManager is available in the following languages: French, English, Italian, German and Czech. To run it in the language of your choice, Press the Options button that opens the following window:

The combobox allows you to choose which language you want (English or French.) The Save icon (disk icon) redirects the Host Name and the Host Id of the PC into a file. The Browse / Install Licenses button allows you to select your license file at its location. And the Check Licenses button display the list of available licenses in a small Window.

3. DOCUMENTATION
The CrossManager documentation is available both in French and English, in .pdf format.

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4.CROSS MANAGER INSTALLATION
4.1. Software installation
The downloaded file crossmanager_2014_installer_xxbit.zip CrossManager with the setup program included in the compressed file. allows installing

The program suggest you to install Visual C++ Runtime Libraries (x86 or x64) if these one are not yet installed on your computer.

4.2.License installation
In the Options menu, click on the Browse/Install licenses button, then browse your disk to the location of your license file and select it.

5. HOW TO REMOVE CROSSMANAGER

Proceed as follows:

Open Start \ Parameters \ Control Panel \ Add/Remove Programs, Select CrossManager, Delete CrossManager, Remove all short-cuts from the Start menu if necessary.

6.TECHNICAL SUPPORT
DATAKIT 6 place des Terreaux 69001 LYON

Tl. : 33 (0)4 72 26 50 29 Fax : 33 (0)4 78 28 42 48 E-mail : [email protected]

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1. Contextual Menu (right button of mouse)
The mouse to be used for CrossManager needs two buttons at least, but profits of an eventual third one or of a wheel. This menu is depending of the context in which it is used, before or after the translation.

Kinds of actions
The mouse can be used in two ways, either by clicking, or by dragging.

Click (press and release immediately a button without moving)

Clicks left are dedicated to choice of actions and highlighting. Clicks right is dedicated to contextual menu.

Drag & Drop (press a button and move the mouse, without releasing the button) Drags are dedicated to addition of files in the list that fulfill the Input Format type. Double Click has no effect on the list before conversion. On the opposite, after conversion, it is the way to open the log file in notepad editor.

Here is the appearing menu when using right Click:

This menu let appear functions available with different buttons described below. The Menus Add Directory and Add Directory (recursive) as well as Load a list of files to be converted are not available in the basic version.

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2. Input Format
When you click the black arrow of the combobox called Select an input format, here is the list of CAD format supported as input by CrossManager:

A filter will limit the selection of files to the selected format with the Add Files button.

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3. Output Format
When you click the black arrow of the combobox called Select an output format, here is the list of CAD format supported as output by CrossManager that is displayed in the combobox :

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4. Output Folder (if required)

If the checkbox called Write into input folder, is checked the output file generated by CrossManager will be created inside the input folder. If you want to choose your output directory, unchek this checkbox, and click on the button in the upper right corner to select this folder.

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5. File Selection and List Creation

When you click on the Add Files button, the following window appears and let you select the database to convert with a list restricted to the chosen format of input files: (This list is limited to the number of 100 files to be converted for the basic version)

The Drag and Drop feature is also available to fill the list of input files to convert. The Drop of the file will be possible only if the selected file fulfill the input format chosen. This applies as well to Folders: All the files from this folder that fulfill the input format are added to the list.

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6. Manipulation of List of files to convert.

Once your list is created, you can edit this list with the contextual menu as shown in the following window:

The Run conversion menu as well as the Run conversion Button starts the converter with each file of the list created above one after the other. The Remove from the list menu allows suppressing a set of selected files from the list. Furthermore file or Files can be removed from the list by highlighting the File(s) and pressing the Del key The Open containing folder opens the folder in which is located the file, inside the File Explorer. The Open output folder opens the folder in which output files are generated, inside the File Explorer. The Add files menu as well as the Add files Button opens the File browser to select a new file for the list. The Empty List menu as well as Empty List button clears the list of files to convert.

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The Options menu as well as the Options Button opens the Options Window to allow you to change the Language of the interface. The Quit menu as well as the Quit Button stops the execution of CrossManager.

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7. Manipulation of List of files after conversion
After conversion has ended, you can use the contextual menu as shown below:

Le menu Run conversion allows running again converter on the files of the list. The menu Save results report specific at this context allows to record the content of this window in an excel file (CSV Format) with all the File names, the File size and the status of conversion The Menu Open containing folder allows opening with Windows explorator the folder in which input file is present. The menu Open output folder allows opening with Windows explorator the folder in which output file is present. The Menu Empty list specific to that context, as well as button, empties the spooler of files to convert. The menu Options as well as button, allows opening Option window. The menu Quit as well as button, ends the execution of the converter..

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8.CONFIGURE
When Output Format is IGES or STEP you are allowed to filter some kinds of data by unchecking the checkbox correction (if not, the Config button is not active) When you Press the Config button, the following dialog box looks like that:

Parts can be deleted or written as blanked entities, as well as Assemblies or FDT. Wireframe entities or FDT entities can be filtered and removed from the output. The Dialog Box allows three parameters: Choose one model out of several in a catalog. Select a new referential by choosing an Axis placement Process of Layer by activation of a filter. The converter allows you operate this transformation into the model: All geometric entities can be converted into nurbs (curves and surfaces) Keep assembly information or not. Keep Solid entities as group or not.

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CATIA V4 ACIS CADDS 3D CATIA V5 CGR COLLADA DXF IGES JT 3D Open CASCADE Parasolid PDF 2D PDF SolidWorks Robcad STEP STL Unisurf VDA VRML 3D 3D

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