CATIA V5 format
The following entities are translated into CATIA V5 format.
Alias entities exported to CATIA V5
| Alias entity | Saved to CATIA V5 format as |
|---|---|
| Curve (created with either CVs or Edit Points) | NURBSCurve of appropriate degree |
| Line | Line |
| Arc | NURBSCurve |
| Circular | NURBSCurve. Note that periodic objects will be divided into two. |
| Blend curves | NURBSCurve of appropriate degree. |
| Multiknot curve | NURBSCurve |
| Curve on surface | NURBSCurves |
| Surface | NURBSSurface. |
| Surface Revolve | NURBSSurface. Periodic objects will be divided into two. |
| Multiknot Surface | Surfaces divided in multiple surfaces if -d option is used. |
| Shell | Solid. Caution: Alias closed shell becomes a CATIA Solid. If -s option is specified, the shell’s faces will become surfaces. |
| sphere, cone, cube, and so on. | NURBSSurface. Periodic objects are divided into two. |
| Rational sphere, cone, and so on. | NURBSSurface. Periodic objects are divided into two. |
| Planar face | NonRationalNURBSSurface of degree 1 with a single span in U and V directions. Faces with holes will be transferred. |
| Shell | CATIA solid body, if shell is closed, or skin (open shell) if shell is open. |
| Surface with multiple disjoint trimmed regions | Multiple trimmed surfaces |
| Closed periodic curve | Periodic curves are divided into two curves. |
| Shader Color RGB | Color RGB |
| Layer | Layer (numbered). Layer name is ignored. |
| Invisible | Invisible (no show) |
| Construction vector | Line |
| Construction plane | Plane |
| Symmetry | Converted if -b option for layer symmetry is ON. |
| Space point, Curve point, Surface point, Curve-on-surface point | Point |
CATIA V5 entities brought into Alias
| CATIA V5 entity | brought into Alias as |
|---|---|
| Curves | NURBS curve of appropriate degree. |
| SplineCurve | NURBS curve of appropriate degree. |
| Circle | NURBS curve of appropriate degree. |
| Ellipse | NURBS curve of appropriate degree. |
| Conic | NURBS curve of appropriate degree. |
| Hyperbola | NURBS curve of appropriate degree. |
| Parabola | NURBS curve of appropriate degree. |
| Line | NURBS curve of appropriate degree. |
| IntCurve | NURBS curve of appropriate degree. |
| BsplineCurve | NURBS curve of appropriate degree. |
| HelixCurve | NURBS curve of appropriate degree. |
| PLine | NURBS curve of appropriate degree. |
| PSpline | NURBS curve of appropriate degree. |
| PCircle | NURBS curve of appropriate degree. |
| PEllipse | NURBS curve of appropriate degree. |
| PParabola | NURBS curve of appropriate degree. |
| PHyperbola | NURBS curve of appropriate degree. |
| PNurbs | NURBS curve of appropriate degree. |
| Surfaces | NURBS surfaces of appropriate degree |
| Products | Groups and instanced groups. |
| Solids | Set of faces that have shared edges at the boundaries where the faces meet within tolerance. Brought in as NURBS surfaces. Closed shell surfaces are stiched in a shell (if Keep Topology is checked on); otherwise, a group of trimmed surfaces is created. |
| Color RGB, Layer, Show (Visibility) | Shader Color RGB, Layer, Visibility. |
| Layer | By default, Layer. Caution: no names are used, just layer numbers. |
| Point | SpacePoint. |
| Unbounded plane | Planar surface. |
| Surface Patch | NURBS Surface of appropriate degree. |
| Surfaces | NURBS Surface of appropriate degree. |
| Plane | NURBS Surface of appropriate degree. |
| NurbsSurface | NURBS Surface of appropriate degree. |
| Cylinder | NURBS Surface of appropriate degree. |
| Sphere | NURBS Surface of appropriate degree. |
| Torus | NURBS Surface of appropriate degree. |
| Cone | NURBS Surface of appropriate degree. |
| FilletSurface | NURBS Surface of appropriate degree. |
| ChamferSurface | NURBS Surface of appropriate degree. |
| DraftSurface | NURBS Surface of appropriate degree. |
| OffsetSurface | NURBS Surface of appropriate degree. |
| SweepSurface | NURBS Surface of appropriate degree. |
| GenericFillet | NURBS Surface of appropriate degree. |
| GenericRuledSurface | NURBS Surface of appropriate degree. |
| Tabulated Cylinder | NURBS Surface of appropriate degree. |
| RevolutionSurface | NURBS Surface of appropriate degree. |
| BsplineSurface | NURBS Surface of appropriate degree. |
| CircularSweep | NURBS Surface of appropriate degree. |
| RuledSurface | NURBS Surface of appropriate degree. |
| Invisible entitiesNoshow | Invisible entities, unless the option ‑v is used when importing the file. |
standard document types provided by Dassault Systems
The standard document types provided by Dassault Systems are:
- Part Document
- Product Document
- Drawing Document
- Material Document
- Catalog Document
- Analysis Document
- Process Document
A Part Document has a .CATPart suffix, and is mainly used during the design process. The Part Document is used as the default document type for the following workbenches:
- Mechanical Design: Part Design, Sketcher, Sheet Metal Design, Wireframe & Surface Design, Functional Dimensioning & Tolerancing.
- Shape: Free Style, GSM Debug, Digitized Shape Editor, Generative Shape Design.
- Equipment & Systems: Circuit Board Design.
A Product Document has a .CATProduct suffix, and is mainly used to assemble Product or Part documents in a structured, coherent system of sub-products and/or parts. The Product Document is used as the default document type for the following workbenches:
- Infrastructure: Product Structure, Knowledge Advisor, Knowledge Expert, Generative Knowledge, Product Engineering Optimizer, Rendering.
- Mechanical Design: Assembly Design, Structure Design.
- AEC Plant: Plant Layout.
- Digital Mockup: Navigator, Space Analysis, Kinematics, Fitting, Plant & Ship Review, Optimizer, Tolerancing Review.
- Equipment & Systems: Systems Space Reservation, Systems Routing, Electrical Wire Routing.
- DELMIA Infrastructure: Digital Manufacturing ReView.