This task show you how to save in an IGES 2D file the data contained in a CATDrawing document. | |
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You can find further information in the Advanced Tasks:
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The export unit
depends on the current unit of your session (see the Tools > Options > Parameters and Measures/Units panel).
So select the required type of session unit to export your data in one system or the other. |
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Limitations in the case of a multi-sheet drawing:
For more information, please refer to the Exported Sheets option |
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After exporting the data to 2D IGES files, the system generates:
These files are created in a location referenced by
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All export options:If the sheet to export contains no geometry, or only non supported
entities, no IG2 file is generated. Structured export option only:
Semantic export option only:
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Linear dimensions with:
are exported as sub-figures. |
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Semantic and Structured export options:
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V5 | 2D IGES | |||
Element | Sub-type | Graphic export | Structured and Semantic export | |
Structures |
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Sheet | One 2D IGES file per sheet (see option) | |||
Views | Interactive view |
The structure is not exported. Note that raster views are not supported. |
The structure is not exported. | |
Generative view | The structure is not exported. All the geometric entities of the view
are gathered into a single subfigure. The above applies to CGR, approximate, exact views. Note that raster views are not supported. |
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Detail (Component) | Details are retrieved through their Dittos. A Detail not referenced by a Ditto is thus lost, a Detail referenced by several Dittos is duplicated in subfigures. The entities included in a Detail are not structured into subfigures. | |||
Ditto (Instance) | The graphical representation of each Ditto is exported to a subfigure | |||
Attributes |
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Unit | The unit of the output file depends on the session current units | |||
Show/NoShow | Only visible elements are exported | |||
Pick/NoPick | NoPick ignored | |||
Line Type | Automatic mapping | |||
Line Thickness | Automatic mapping | |||
Marker type | Ignored | |||
Color | Automatic color | |||
Text attributes | Font |
Exported implicitly through the graphic representation of text. Only the contour of characters is exported. |
Default mapping | |
Bold, italic | Not supported | |||
Underlined | Text + line | |||
Space (x-scale) | Space | |||
Height | Height | |||
Justification | Justification | |||
Flip | Flip | |||
Frame | Text + geometry | |||
Layer | Not supported | Layer | ||
Annotations |
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Dimension | Linear |
The geometrical basic elements of each representation are exported. If the representation includes filled areas, only the contour is exported. |
Structured mode:
Each graphical representation of the elements is exported to a subfigure Linear dimensions are exported as such. |
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Circular Angular Curvilinear |
Structured and Semantic mode:
Each graphical representation of the elements is exported to a subfigure |
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Axis line | Line with the suitable line type | |||
Center Line |
Each graphical representation of the elements is exported to a subfigure. If the representation includes filled areas, only the contour is exported. |
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Thread | ||||
Welding symbol | ||||
Coordinate dimension | ||||
Balloon | ||||
Datum Target | ||||
Datum Feature | ||||
GDT | ||||
Roughness symbol | ||||
Table | ||||
Leader | ||||
Arrow | ||||
Callout | ||||
Text | One TEXT (or several TEXTS in case of font or attribute changes) + geometry gathered into a subfigure (see text attributes) | |||
Area fill
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Hatching pattern | The geometrical basic elements of each representation are exported | The geometrical elements making the hatches are gathered into a subfigure | |
Dotting pattern | ||||
Image pattern |
Only the contour of the hatches is exported | Only the contour of the hatches is exported into a subfigure | ||
Coloring pattern | Only the contour of the hatches is exported | Only the contour of the hatches is exported into a subfigure | ||
Geometry |
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Curve | Point | POINT (116) | ||
Line | LINE (110) | |||
Polyline | 2D POLYLINE (106) | |||
Circle | CIRCLE (100) | |||
Arc | ARC (100) | |||
Spline | 2D POLYLINE (106) | |||
NURBS | 2D POLYLINE (106) | |||
Ellipse | 2D POLYLINE OR ELLIPSE (104) | |||
Hyperbola | 2D POLYLINE (106) | |||
Parabola | 2D POLYLINE (106) | |||
Constraints | Not supported | |||
Miscellaneous |
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OLE link | Not supported | |||
Picture (bitmap...) | Not supported |