IGES 2D: Semantic and Structured Export: texts
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All texts are exported and mapped automatically with the 2D IGES
corresponding font. If a character cannot be mapped into an IGES font then
it is replaced by the substitution character @.
By-pass: Use the DXF
interface that allows to export all the unicode characters, unlike IGES that
allows only a small number of character sets.
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IGES 2D: Import
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Whereas the path of an IGES file to import may contain non-ASCII characters, the name of the
file itself must contain only ASCII characters.
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IGES 2D: Export
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Whereas the name of an exported IGES file may contain non-ASCII characters,
we recommend that you use only ASCII characters (you could not re-import a
file with non-ASCII characters in its name).
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Settings Option Join
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Select the option Join surfaces of the model if
you want to join the surfaces of your IGES model into a shell.
If this option is active, the software will try to knit the surfaces
from an importable file into a shell, even if the file contains Groups
(402), with the merging tolerance, i.e. the input file resolution (from
field #19 of the file Global section), limited between the modeler tolerance
and 100 x the modeler tolerance. The modeler tolerance depends on the
current session scale.
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IGES 3D: Export
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Open the CATPart or CATProduct document to be saved in
IGES format.
For a CATProduct, there is one conversion operation for each CATPart
document referenced by the product.
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Select the File > Save As... command.
The Save As dialog box is displayed.
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Specify the name of the document in the File name:
field.
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Set the .igs extension in the Save as type
field.
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Click the Save button to confirm the operation.
A progress bar is displayed for each conversion operation.
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You can use the Cancel button to interrupt the transfer at any
time.
The current conversion operation is then interrupted (after the
processing of the current independent entity) and the partial
conversion already performed is saved in the IGES file.
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IGES 3D: Import
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Select the .igs file of your choice and click Open.
A progress bar is displayed.

You can use the Cancel button to interrupt the transfer
at any time.
The conversion is then interrupted (after the processing of the current
independent entity) and the partial conversion already performed is
displayed in the V5 session.
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copious data
are imported as follows:
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106 forms 1-3
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106 forms 11-13, 63
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curve (polyline)
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The
generic display name of such elements in V5 can be Geometrical Element
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Import: mtext
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Changing fonts, changing attributes and
line break are not taken into account.
Text alignment is not taken into account. |
How to control the way polylines with adjustable width are imported?
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What About the Elements You Export?
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Both export options:
- If the sheet to export contains no geometry, or only non supported
entities, no DXF/DWG file is generated.
- The visual clipping of views is not yet supported.
- The point of view (camera) of the model is not exported.
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