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Page 13Version 5 Release 14CATIA-CADAM InterfaceNon-Text Based AnnotationsNon-Text based annotations are defined as annotation related elements that do not have a text component. The followingtable outlines the specific mappings for non-text based annotations:Note: Not transferred (*) designates that the element or property is not supported in the current release of the V5Interactive Drafting product.CADAM DraftingElement/PropertyInteractive DraftingElement/PropertyCommentsGeometric annotations:Arrow without textArrowBreakoutPolylineDotCircle or areafillRasterNot transferred (*)RectanglePolyline or areafillSection linePolylineTrianglePolyline or areafillAreafill and pattern data:Areafill boundaryPolylineAreafillbackground colorAreafill colorThe CADAM arrow supports a series of end conditions. Notall of these end conditions are supported by the currentversion of the Interactive Drafting product. Therefore, endconditions will be transferred to the best matching endcondition.If the CADAM element is not filled, the element istransferred as a circle. If the CADAM element is filled, it istransferred as an areafill.If the CADAM element is not filled, the element istransferred as a polyline. If the CADAM element is filled, it istransferred as an areafill.If the CADAM element is not filled, the element istransferred as a polyline. If the CADAM element is filled, it istransferred as an areafill.

Version 5 Release 14CATIA-CADAM InterfacePage 14Areafill standardpatternsAreafill patternCADAM Drafting areafill patterns are based on repeatinglines or repeating cells. The current Interactive Draftingproduct supports patterns based on repeating lines only.The CADAM standard patterns based on repeating lines(hatch, grid, steel, dashes, copper, rubber, aluminum 1,aluminum 2, titanium, plywood, plank, tile) are transferred toa pattern simulating the CADAM pattern. CADAM standardpatterns based on repeating cells (brick, soil, hex, herring)are transferred as basic hatch patterns.User definedareafill patternsAreafill pattern (simplehatch pattern)User defined CADAM areafill patterns are transferred assimple areafill hatch patterns.

Page 15Version 5 Release 14CATIA-CADAM InterfaceText-Based Annotations and Text PropertiesText based annotations are defined to be any element with a text component other than dimensions.The following table outlines the specific mappings for text-based annotations and annotation properties:Note: Not transferred (*) designates that the element or property is not supported in the current release of the V5Interactive Drafting product.CADAM DraftingElement/PropertyInteractive DraftingElement/PropertyCommentsCharacter encoding:UnicodeUnicodeBoth CADAM Drafting and Interactive Drafting use theUnicode standard for character encoding. Therefore, allcharacters with standard Unicode character codes aretransferred without any mapping. There are a smallnumber of characters (specifically, engineering symbolssuch as & , 6 ) that don't have standard Unicodecharacter codes. In these cases, the character code ismapped from the CADAM Drafting defined Unicodecharacter code to the Interactive drafting defined Unicodecharacter code.Arrow with textText with leaderThe text with leader functionality provided with theInteractive Drafting product is slightly different fromCADAM Drafting. Specifically, with CADAM Drafting theuser can define the length of the leader segment adjacentto the text. With Interactive drafting, the length of thissegment is fixed. Therefore, the leader head position andthe text position will transfer as it exists in the CADAMDrafting model, but the leader segments may not bevisually the same.BalloonCircle and textA CADAM Drafting balloon is transferred to a circle and atext element (rather than a balloon) because thefunctionality and text capabilities of a CADAM Draftingballoon are closer to an Interactive Drafting text element.If the balloon has a CADAM arrow attached, the arrow istransferred as a separate element.DeltaLines, arcs, and textA CADAM Drafting delta is transferred to lines, arcs, anda text element as this best simulated the visualappearence of the CADAM delta symbol. If the delta hasan arrow attached, the arrow is transferred as a separateelement.Text based Annotations:

Version 5 Release 14CATIA-CADAM InterfacePage 16TextText and/or GD&TIn general, CADAM Drafting text elements are transferredto text elements in Interactive Drafting. As InteractiveDrafting supports an intelligent GD&T element, thetransfer will create a GD&T element when the CADAMDrafting string matches the characteristics of a standardGD&T. Note that a CADAM Drafting string with plain textand GD&T constructs may be transferred to a set of textelements and a set of GD&T elements. If multiple textand/or GD&T elements are create, they will be associatedto each other.Text on a curveTextThe text is transferred as individual letters.TextlineText and linesThe text and lines are not associated after the transfer.Character heightFont sizeNote: CADAM Drafting supports negative characterheight, which is not supported by Interactive Drafting.Therefore, text with a negative character height will betransferred with the font size set to the absolute value ofthe character height.Character widthCharacter widthAlthough the CATIA-CADAM Interface product sets thisproperty, it is not accessible to an Interactive Draftinguser in the current release.Text string properties:Note: CADAM Drafting supports negative character width,which is not supported by Interactive Drafting. Therefore,text with a negative character width will be transferredwith the character width set to the absolute value of theCADAM Drafting character width.Fill justificationNot transferred (*)Horizontal spacingCharacter spacingAlthough the CATIA-CADAM Interface product sets thisproperty, it is not accessible to an Interactive Draftinguser in the current release.Note: CADAM Drafting supports negative horizontalspacing, which is not supported by Interactive Drafting.Therefore, text with a negative horizontal spacing will betransferred with the character spacing set to the absolutevalue of horizontal spacing.JustificationJustificationLine WeightPlain text/boldThe line weight property does not exist for text in theInteractive Drafting product. Therefore, any CADAMDrafting text with non-zero line weight is transferred to"bold" text in Interactive Drafting.

Version 5 Release 14CATIA-CADAM InterfacePage 17Scale/no scale flagNot transferred (*)This property does not affect the display of the text. Withthe current release of Interactive Drafting, all text behavessimilar to "no scale".SlantSlantAlthough the CATIA-CADAM Interface product sets thisproperty, it is not accessible to an Interactive Draftinguser in the current release.Text boxes defined on slanted text display slanted withthe CADAM Drafting product. The Interactive Draftingproduct will display the text characters slanted, but thetext box will not display slanted.SpanText box widthText angleText orientationText directionNot transferred (*)Text mirrorNot transferred (*)Text positionText anchor pointCADAM Drafting supports 5 horizontal by 5 verticalpositions. Interactive Drafting supports 3 horizontal by 3vertical positions. The transfer maps the CADAM Draftingposition to the closest Interactive drafting anchor point.Turn/no turn flagOrientation association ofthe text.If the property is set to "no turn", the text is transferredwith its orientation associated to the drawing Sheet. Inthis case, the text will not rotate if the view is rotated. Ifthis property is set to "turn", the text is transferred with itsorientation associated to the view. In this case, the textwill rotate if the view is rotated.Vertical spacingInterline spacingAlthough the CATIA-CADAM Interface product sets thisproperty, it is not accessible to an Interactive Draftinguser 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 transferredwith the interline spacing set to the absolute value of thevertical spacing.Substring properties:Fractional displayNumerator followed bydenominatorThe current release of Interactive Drafting does notsupport a numerator over denominator display. Thereforethe fraction will be displayed as numerator/denominator.

Version 5 Release 14CATIA-CADAM InterfacePage 18Full, half, and 3/4superscripting andsubscriptingSuperscripting andsubscriptingThe Interactive Drafting product does not support multiplelines or "stacked" super/subscripting. Text with 2 lines ofsuper/subscripting will be transferred with the first"stacked" line transferred to superscript followed by thesecond "stacked" line as subscript. If a string has morethan 2 stacked lines, the third and subsequent lines willbe transferred as new lines in text string.Substring boxSubstring boxThe CADAM Drafting product supports three substringbox displays. The Interactive Drafting product supportstwo substring box displays. The CADAM large andmedium substring box are transferred to the InteractiveDrafting large substring box display. The CADAM smallsubstring box is transferred to the Interactive Draftingsmall substring box display. Note that CADAM can mixall three substring box displays within one string. ForInteractive Drafting, all substring boxes within a stringmust be the same size. Therefore, if a CADAM string hasdifferent size substring boxes, all will be transferred as thesize of the first substring box encountered in the string. Inaddition, the sizes of the substring boxes are not identicalbetween CADAM Drafting and Interactive Drafting.Therefore, the text may have a slightly different overallsize after the transfer.Substring lozengeSubstring lozengeUnderscore/overscoreUnderline/overline

Page 19Version 5 Release 14CATIA-CADAM InterfaceDimensions and Dimension PropertiesThe dimension facility provided with the current release of the Interactive Drafting product does not support allcapabilities currently provided by the CADAM Drafting product. Therefore, after the transfer of dimensions fromCADAM Drafting to the Interactive Drafting product, the display of the dimension may not be visually identical.The actual visual difference is based on the dimension type and the associated properties (specific cases arelisted in the following table). Due to this, the CATIA-CADAM Interface product provides you with the option to"explode" dimensions into geometry and text during the transfer. If you set this option, all dimensions will betransferred as geometry and text only.In certain instances of dimensions defined with the CADAM Drafting product, there is not a logical mapping to asupported dimension in the Interactive Drafting product. In these cases, the dimension is automaticallyexploded to geometry and text. The specific cases are listed in the mapping table below.The following table outlines the specific mappings for dimensions and dimension properties:Note: Exploded to geometry and text (*) designates that the dimension is converted to plain geometry andtext upon transfer. Upon this conversion, the end conditions of the lines will be mapped to an arrow endcondition, as this is the only end condition available for non-dimension geometry. The end conditions for angleand curve dimensions will not be displayed because the corresponding V5 elements do not support endconditions. For text that is generated during the conversion, all mapping information defined in the Text basedAnnotations and Text Properties section applies.CADAM DraftingElement/PropertyInteractive DraftingElement/PropertyCommentsDimension standards:ANSIdimensionsANSI dimensionsCADAMstandarddimensionsANSI dimensionsInherent differences do exist between the "CADAM"standard and ANSI standard dimensions. Thesedimensions are transferred to the ANSI standard, as itis the closest standard supported with the InteractiveDrafting product.IBM standarddimensionsISO DimensionsInherent differences do exist between the "IBM"standard and ISO standard dimensions. Thesedimensions are transferred to the ISO standard as isthe closest standard supported with the InteractiveDrafting product.ISODimensionsISO DimensionsJIS dimensionsJIS dimensionsDimension - nonsupported cases:

Version 5 Release 14CATIA-CADAM InterfacePage 20ChamferdimensionExploded to geometryand text (*)Chamfer dimensions are not supported in the currentrelease of the Interactive Drafting product. Therefore,these dimensions are exploded into geometry and text.Extension lines broken, noshown, orskewedExploded to geometryand text (*)Dimensions with modified extension lines are notsupported in the current release of the InteractiveDrafting product. Therefore, these dimensions areexploded into geometry and text.Paralleldimension to anarbitrary lineExploded to geometryand text (*)Linear dimensions that do not measure horizontal ,vertical or true distance (the dimension line wascreated at a user defined angle) are not supported byV5 and will be exploded.Text, nonstandard text indimension textstringExploded to geometryand text (*)Dimensions with non-standard text (e.g., line feeds,substring box, subscripting) are not supported in thecurrent release of the Interactive Drafting product.Therefore, these dimensions are exploded intogeometry and text.Dimension, special cases:Dimensions inan alternateorigin wherethe axis scaledoes notequal theview scale.Dimensions in anAlternate origins are not supported in V5.alternate origin where Dimensions are changed to out-of-scale tothe axis scale doespreserve the dimension value in the originalnot equal the viewcontext but not present it as an in-scalescale.dimension.Diameterdimension(ANSI), two partdimension lineDiameter dimension(ANSI), two partdimension lineFor diameter dimensions with two part dimension lines,CADAM Drafting allows the interior portion of thedimension line to be not shown. The InteractiveDrafting product supports the interior portion being notshown only when an addition segment is drawn on theopposite side of the circle. Therefore, the transferreddimension may not be visually identical.Dimension withleaderDimension with fixedleader positionThe current version of the Interactive Drafting productdoes not allow explicit placement of dimension leaders.Therefore, the dimension will be transferred with aleader, but the position of the text and leader may bevisually different. In addition, text associated with aleader for an ISO or JIS dimension in the CADAMDrafting product is displayed parallel to dimension line.With the Interactive Drafting product, this text isdisplayed horizontally. Therefore in this case, theleader and text will display at a different angle aftertransfer.

Version 5 Release 14CATIA-CADAM InterfaceRadiusdimension(ANSI), two partdimension lineRadius dimension(ANSI), two partdimension linePage 21For radius dimensions with two part dimension lines,the portion of the dimension line on the interior of thearc is either not shown or drawn to the center of thecircular arc on CADAM Drafting. The InteractiveDrafting product allows the interior portion to be notshown, but it does not allow it to be drawn to the centerof the arc. Therefore, all radius dimensions with twopart dimension lines are transferred so the interiorportion of the dimension line is not shown.Dimension properties:Dimensionassociation togeometricelementDimension association to CADAM Drafting supports both associative and nongeometric elementassociative dimensions. The current release ofInteractive Drafting only supports associativedimensions. Given this difference, non-associativedimensions are still transferred, but additional geometryis also created to satisfy the association. The additionalgeometry that is created is not shown.Dimension lineend conditionsClosest possible endconditionThe current version of the Interactive Drafting productdoes not support all end conditions supported byCADAM Drafting. Therefore, end conditions will bemapped to the closest possible supported endcondition.Dimension textDimension value text,before, after, upper,lower textThe CADAM Drafting product treats the entiredimension text is as one text string. The InteractiveDrafting product divides this into the dimension valuetext, before, after, upper, and lower text. Therefore,CADAM Drafting dimension text will be mapping to theappropriate dimension subtext. As stated above in thespecial case section, the dimension text elements inInteractive Drafting do not support all of the textproperties or capabilities of CADAM Drafting. IfCADAM Drafting dimension text is encountered thatcontains not supported properties, the dimension isexploded to geometry and standard text.Dimension unitsClosest possibledimension unitsThe current version of the Interactive Drafting productonly supports dimensioning units of inches andmillimeters. Therefore, dimensions using inchdimensioning units will be transferred to inchdimensioning units. All other dimensions will betransferred to millimeter dimensioning units.

Version 5 Release 14CATIA-CADAM InterfacePage 22Extension line,gappingExtension line, blankingCADAM Drafting supports extension line gappingvalues of standard, no gap, and overlap. Theinteractive drafting product supports only positivevalues for blanking. "Standard" and "no gap" will bemapping to appropriate values of blanking. As overlapimplies a negative blanking value, it will be transferredas 0 blanking (equivalent to no gap).Extension line,overshootExtension line, overrunThe interactive drafting product supports only positiveoverrun values. Therefore, any CADAM Draftingovershoot value less than 0 will be transferred as 0.Text locationDimension value location Because of differences in text properties, as well asdifferences in the way CADAM Drafting and CATIA V5Interactive Drafting manage dimension text (see"Dimension text," above), the text location may bedifferent after translation.Tolerance,basicDimension value withtext box frameTolerance, limitDual dimension valueTolerance,singleTolerance, ance, numericaltoleranceThe display of the tolerance information is slightlydifferent between CADAM Drafting and the InteractiveDrafting product. For example, when you define anupper and lower tolerance that are equal, both aredisplayed. For this case, in the Interactive Draftingproduct, the tolerance value is displayed only once,preceded by a plus-minus symbol. Upon transfer, theclosest possible tolerance display will be chosen.Tolerance, textheightTolerance, font sizeCADAM Drafting allows you to create 1/2- or 3/4-sizetext for tolerance values. CATIA V5 Interactive Draftingsupports only full-size text, so all tolerance values aredisplayed ful

The CATIA-CADAM Interface product allows you to integrate your CADAM Drafting environment with other V5 CATIA product offerings. Depending on your intended usage, there are two basic design methodologies that the CATIA-CADAM Interface product supports for integrating your V5 CATIA and CADAM drafting environments. They are as follows: