Import Interfaces - Pro-ENGINEER and NX Unigraphics - Options

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Define how the system manages the different entities when importing models from NX Unigraphics and Pro-ENGINEER.

Preview: Activate this option to display, after confirming the Import options dialog, a further dialog named Assembly import selection.

This dialog allows you to control what has to be imported into Designer by selecting only the required components from the assembly. (See image).

The file content is displayed at the bottom of the window and it is possible to interact with it (zoom, rotate, translate).

Prevalent face colour as solid colour: When selected, the system associates the colour common to the majority of its faces with the solid body. For example, if, in the native software, 2 faces are red and 5 are blue, the imported solid will be blue.

Hidden entities: When selected, the system imports the entities which have an associated invisible attribute.

Healing: The default healing workflow performs multiple checks and, based on the results, activates specific procedures in order to fix the detected errors.

This could result in re-surfacing of faces, faces being split, bodies being split etc.

The Healing option performs the following operations when activated:

• Produces valid edges by applying a tolerance to the edges and vertices of the incoming body.
• Produces valid edges by attempting surface-surface intersection to create edge geometry.
• Removes surface self-intersecting which is outside of face span.
• Splits faces at non-g1 edges.
• Fixes self-intersecting surfaces which are inside as well as outside the face span.
• Removes self-intersecting face errors.
• Fixes bad loop errors, face-face inconsistency or bad face-face errors.

Sew faces: Activate this option to sew all faces to be imported. Otherwise, the model is imported with single faces.

Note:

In general, this option is activated for stitching trimmed faces (trim route).

Simplify bodies: Activate this option to attempt to simplify bodies by:

• Removing redundant edges.
• Converting the surfaces underlying each face of the solid and the edges of that face into an analytic form.

Reference Set Entire Part: This option controls the Entire Part Reference Set while importing an NX Unigraphics assembly.

The Entire Part Reference Set is a standard configuration created by Unigraphics itself and available in all of the Unigraphics files.

Activate this option to set the ConfigName 'Entire Part' as Reference Set. The contents of the Entire Part Reference Set will be used to reference / define each assembly in Designer.

This section allows you to handle the assemblies imported from systems other than Designer by defining how to manage the different entities.

Body name as name of destination layer: By activating this option, the layer where the imported body is placed inherits the name of the body in the native system.

Search for parts: Enter the path to be used to search for the components and the sub-assembly files to load.

Note:

• By default, this field is empty.
• Multiple search paths can be provided, separated by a semi-colon ";".
• When a path is provided but the files are not found, the search follows a default behaviour for each component. For example, if the specified paths to import a file named 'Test.prt' are C:\Temp\PartFiles and E:\Files\MissingParts, the order in which the file will be searched is:

C:\Temp\PartFiles, C:\Temp, C:\, E:\Files\MissingParts, E:\Files, and E:\.

• When this field is specified, the system does not read any sub-assembly or part files stored in a sub folder of the root assembly. If you want to first use the files from the folder of the root assembly, add its folder to the path.
• For the Pro-Engineer/Creo Reader, when a path is specified in this field, the files are searched only from the specified paths, and the root assembly folder is not searched.

Sub folders first: This option controls the relative and absolute paths searched for parts and sub-assembly files while importing a NX Unigraphics assembly. Activate this option to first check for sub-assemblies and parts at the root folder of the assembly. If any sub-assembly or part is not found in the root folder, it checks for sub-assemblies and parts in an equivalent relative sub-folder to the root assembly folder.

Note:

When the Searches for parts and Sub folders first options are both applicable for a component (because of default behaviour or explicitly set), Searches for parts will be performed first. If any file is not successfully found in the specified path, then Sub folders first will be used.