The following table outlines the specific mappings for text-based
annotations and annotation properties:
CADAM Drafting Element/Property |
Interactive Drafting Element/Property |
Comments |
Character
encoding: |
|
|
Unicode
|
Unicode |
Both CADAM
Drafting and Interactive Drafting use the Unicode standard for
character encoding. Therefore, all characters with standard Unicode
character codes are transferred without any mapping. There are a small
number of characters (specifically, engineering symbols such as
& ,
6 ) that don't have standard
Unicode character codes. In these cases, the character code is mapped
from the CADAM Drafting defined Unicode character code to the
Interactive drafting defined Unicode character code. |
Text based
Annotations: |
|
|
Arrow with text
|
Text with
leader |
The text with
leader functionality provided with the Interactive Drafting product is
slightly different from CADAM Drafting. Specifically, with CADAM
Drafting the user can define the length of the leader segment adjacent
to the text. With Interactive drafting, the length of this segment is
fixed. Therefore, the leader head position and the text position will
transfer as it exists in the CADAM Drafting model, but the leader
segments may not be visually the same. |
Balloon
|
Circle and
text |
A CADAM
Drafting balloon is transferred to a circle and a text element (rather
than a balloon) because the functionality and text capabilities of a
CADAM Drafting balloon are closer to an Interactive Drafting text
element. If the balloon has a CADAM arrow attached, the arrow is
transferred as a separate element. |
Delta
|
Lines, arcs,
and text |
A CADAM
Drafting delta is transferred to lines, arcs, and a text element as
this best simulated the visual appearence of the CADAM delta symbol.
If the delta has an arrow attached, the arrow is transferred as a
separate element. |
Text
|
Text and/or
GD&T |
In general,
CADAM Drafting text elements are transferred to text elements in
Interactive Drafting. As Interactive Drafting supports an intelligent
GD&T element, the transfer will create a GD&T element when the CADAM
Drafting string matches the characteristics of a standard GD&T. Note
that a CADAM Drafting string with plain text and GD&T constructs may be
transferred to a set of text elements and a set of GD&T elements. If
multiple text and/or GD&T elements are create, they will be associated
to each other. |
Text on a curve
|
Text |
The text is
transferred as individual letters. |
Textline
|
Text and lines |
The text and
lines are not associated after the transfer. |
Text string
properties: |
|
|
Character height
|
Font size |
Note: CADAM
Drafting supports negative character height, which is not supported by
Interactive Drafting. Therefore, text with a negative character height
will be transferred with the font size set to the absolute value of the
character height. |
Character width
|
Character width |
Although the CATIA-CADAM Interface product
sets this property, it is not accessible to an Interactive Drafting
user in the current release. Note: CADAM Drafting supports negative
character width, which is not supported by Interactive Drafting.
Therefore, text with a negative character width will be transferred
with the character width set to the absolute value of the CADAM
Drafting character width. |
Fill justification
|
Not transferred (*) |
|
Horizontal spacing
|
Character spacing |
Although the CATIA-CADAM Interface product
sets this property, it is not accessible to an Interactive Drafting
user in the current release. Note: CADAM Drafting supports negative
horizontal spacing, which is not supported by Interactive Drafting.
Therefore, text with a negative horizontal spacing will be transferred
with the character spacing set to the absolute value of horizontal
spacing. |
Justification
|
Justification |
|
Line Weight
|
Plain text/bold |
The line weight property does not exist for
text in the Interactive Drafting product. Therefore, any CADAM Drafting
text with non-zero line weight is transferred to "bold" text in
Interactive Drafting. |
Scale/no scale flag
|
Not transferred (*) |
This property does not affect the display
of the text. With the current release of Interactive Drafting, all text
behaves similar to "no scale". |
Slant
|
Slant |
Although the CATIA-CADAM Interface product
sets this property, it is not accessible to an Interactive Drafting
user in the current release.
Text boxes defined on slanted text
display slanted with the CADAM Drafting product. The Interactive
Drafting product will display the text characters slanted, but the text
box will not display slanted. |
Span
|
Text box width |
|
Text angle
|
Text orientation |
|
Text direction
|
Not transferred (*) |
|
Text mirror
|
Not transferred (*) |
|
Text position
|
Text anchor point |
CADAM Drafting supports 5 horizontal by 5
vertical positions. Interactive Drafting supports 3 horizontal by 3
vertical positions. The transfer maps the CADAM Drafting position to
the closest Interactive drafting anchor point. |
Turn/no turn flag
|
Orientation association of the text.
|
If the property is set to "no turn", the
text is transferred with its orientation associated to the drawing
Sheet. In this case, the text will not rotate if the view is rotated.
If this property is set to "turn", the text is transferred with its
orientation associated to the view. In this case, the text will rotate
if the view is rotated. |
Vertical spacing
|
Interline spacing |
Although the CATIA-CADAM Interface product
sets this property, it is not accessible to an Interactive Drafting
user in the current release. Note: CADAM Drafting supports negative
vertical spacing, which is not supported by Interactive Drafting.
Therefore, text with a negative vertical spacing will be transferred
with the interline spacing set to the absolute value of the vertical
spacing. |
Substring properties: |
|
|
Fractional display
|
Numerator followed by denominator |
The current release of Interactive Drafting
does not support a numerator over denominator display. Therefore the
fraction will be displayed as numerator/denominator. |
Full, half, and 3/4 superscripting and subscripting
|
Superscripting and subscripting |
The Interactive Drafting product does not
support multiple lines or "stacked" super/subscripting. Text with 2
lines of super/subscripting will be transferred with the first
"stacked" line transferred to superscript followed by the second
"stacked" line as subscript. If a string has more than 2 stacked lines,
the third and subsequent lines will be transferred as new lines in text
string. |
Substring box
|
Substring box |
The CADAM
Drafting product supports three substring box displays. The Interactive
Drafting product supports two substring box displays. The CADAM
large and medium substring box are transferred to the Interactive
Drafting large substring box display. The CADAM small substring
box is transferred to the Interactive Drafting small substring box
display. Note that CADAM can mix all three substring box
displays within one string. For Interactive Drafting, all
substring boxes within a string must be the same size. Therefore,
if a CADAM string has different size substring boxes, all will be
transferred as the size of the first substring box encountered in the
string. In addition, the sizes of the substring boxes are not
identical between CADAM Drafting and Interactive Drafting.
Therefore, the text may have a slightly different overall size after
the transfer. |
Substring lozenge
|
Substring
lozenge |
|
Underscore/overscore
|
Underline/overline |
|