Geometric Elements and Geometric Properties

The CADAM Drafting product and the Interactive Drafting product support the same basic set of geometry. All basic geometric elements are transferred with mathematically accuracy between the two systems. The geometric properties (e.g., line styles) are not identically defined between the two products with the current releases. Therefore, minor differences in visual appearance may occur between the two systems.

The following table outlines the specific mappings for geometric elements and geometric properties:

Note: Not transferred (*) designates that the element or property is not supported in the current release of the V5 Interactive Drafting product.

CADAM Drafting Element/Property

Interactive Drafting Element/Property

Comments
Basic geometry:    

Circle

 Circle  

Ellipse

 Ellipse  

Line

 Line  

Linear spline

 Polyline  

Multiline

 Polyline  

Point

 Point  

Point, lever

 Point A lever point will be transferred as a standard point because V5 does not support the concept of a lever point.

Point, XYZ

 Point The XYZ point is transferred as a 2D point. So, the Z coordinate information is not transferred.

Spline

 Spline  

Spline, offset spline

 Spline The concept of an offset spline does not exist in the interactive drafting product; therefore, the offset spline is transferred as a spline. Given this, the geometry is transferred, but the association between the offset spline and the parent spline is not transferred.   Also, in certain cases where the curvature or the offset is large, the mathematically definition of the offset is not exactly reproduced.  Therefore, a offset spline may be visually different after the transfer.
Geometric reference elements:

Dittos

 Dittos The fill of the ditto is not transferred. Text in dittos is scaled and rotated according to V5 conventions.

Reference entities

 Not transferred (*)  
Symbol occurrence (standard) Library component Before opening the CADAM Drafting model with the Interactive Drafting product, the user must first convert the symbol table model into a component library file. The user may continue to explode the symbols on the CCD scale. The fill of the symbol is not transferred. See Setting Options, Step 5, to learn how to specify catalog location.

Symbol occurrence (variable text and variable geometry symbols)

 Exploded to geometry (manual step required) Before opening the CADAM Drafting model with the Interactive Drafting product, the user must first use the "Symbol-Convert" option of CADAM Drafting. This will allow the transfer of the exploded geometry to Interactive Drafting.
Standard geometric properties:    

Color

 Color (matching RGB values)  

Hidden line removal - visualization data

 Not transferred (*)  

Line styles

 Closest available line style The current Interactive Drafting product only supports a subset of the line styles supported by CADAM Drafting. So, CADAM Drafting line styles are transferred to the closest available Interactive Drafting line style.

Line widths, pen, line weight

 Closest available line width The current Interactive Drafting product only supports a subset of the line widths supported by CADAM Drafting. In addition, the concept of pen and line weight is not supported. So, CADAM Drafting line widths are transferred to the closest available Interactive Drafting line width. Pen and line weight information is not transferred.
Element properties:    

Flange angle data

 Not transferred This information is not supported in the Interactive Drafting product. As the Interactive Drafting product works in conjunction with V5 3D design, this information is not applicable for Interactive Drafting.

User attributes

 Not transferred (*)  

VDS information

 Not transferred