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Helix Migration
Workshop
SUBJECT: Helix V4R3 Migration to CCD and CATIA V5 on Windows
NAME: Pierre Devaux for Ozzie Marquez
October 3, 2000
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HELIX MIGRATION
MIGRATION METHODS
 DXF OR DWG – (GOOD, BUT SOME RE-WORK)
 MCXTRAN – (SUPERIOR RESULTS)
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 NURESTOR – (BETTER, BUT HAS LIMITATIONS)
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HELIX MIGRATION
 IT’S FREE!!!
 99% TRANSLATION.
 TRANSFERS SINGLE HELIX MODELS TO CCD
INTERACTIVELY OR MULTIPLE MODELS IN BATCH.
 NO MODEL SIZE LIMITATION.
 CCD MODELS WILL REQUIRE 30-50% LESS SPACE.
 ONCE THE HELIX MODEL IS CONVERTED TO CCD,
CATIA V5 CAN THEN OPEN THE MODEL.
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FEATURES OF THE MCXTRAN DIRECT TRANSLATOR
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HELIX MIGRATION
SUPPORTED RELEASES
 Helix 2000 V4R3 or Helix 2000 V5
 CATIA V5R4
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 CATIA-CADAM Drafting (CCD) V423 or V5R4
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HELIX MIGRATION
SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS
 Windows NT and 2000
 Helix data files MUST reside on an NTFS formatted drive
 NTFS (read-only) file system driver for Windows 95 and 98 is
available free from: www.sysinternals.com/ntfs98.htm
(DSA IS EVALUATING)
 UNIX: AIX V432 and above
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 Windows 95 and 98
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HELIX MIGRATION PACKAGE
HELIX MIGRATION PACKAGE, AVAILABLE FOR
WINDOWS AND AIX FROM www.cadam.com
CONTAINS:
 A Detailed Migration Guide
 The Batch Utility
 Character Mapping Tables
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 The Translator
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HELIX MIGRATION PACKAGE
FILES IN THE PACKAGE:
 To get the package go to www.cadam.com. From the
MICROCADAM User Center/Helix Migration Package page,
download HelixMigrationPkg_0918.exe
 The package contains:
 The Migration Guide in HTML format
 Bin\Mcxtranv4.exe (the translator)
 Bin\bulkxfer.exe (the batch utility)
 Mapping Tables (copy to corresponding CCDraft directory)
 Profile\convert\tables\cad8859-1_ucs-2.map
 Profile\convert\tables\helix-8859_ucs-2.map
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 Executables (copy to corresponding CCDraft directory)
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HELIX MIGRATION PACKAGE
FILES IN THE PACKAGE (con’t):
 GPHIGS Font Tables (copy to corresponding CCDraft directory).
 Gphigs\font_u.001, 002, 033, 035, 036 & 241
 Sample Color Map File (copy to corresponding CCDraft
directory)
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 Plot\color_map
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REQUIREMENTS
TRANSLATOR REQUIREMENTS
 Helix Drafting, Access, the Helix File Server, as well
as CCD, must be installed on the PC where the
translation will be done.
 MCXTRAN must have access to Helix’s Access and
the Helix database (mcadam).
 Define the environment variable MCXVOL=C:\mcadam
 Add to the PATH: C:\Hds\Drafting\Binwin
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 No additional license is required to run mcxtran.
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REQUIREMENTS
TRANSLATOR REQUIREMENTS (con’t)
 The mcadam directory must be on an NTFS drive.
 The drawings must be in a group,user directory
structure with the long MC File Name format:
..12000680816000000680816003333323733363420202020202020202042303034n1 ……vvvv
 The BULKXFER utility requires that a group called
BULK and a user called XFER be defined.
 These are working directories and all files are deleted when
done.
 There must be enough disk space to accommodate the largest
sub-directory to be processed.
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REQUIREMENTS
TRANSLATOR REQUIREMENTS (con’t)
 Windows does not allow special characters in the
file name such as asterisks or quotation marks.
Two mapping tables are provided in CCD to resolve
this problem:
C:\CCDraft\Profile\Convert\Tables\ucs-2_name-8859.map
 The character mapping will be done on the file name, plot-data’s
format overplot name, and the overlay member list.
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C:\CCDraft\Profile\Convert\Tables\name-8859_ucs-2.map
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BATCH PROCESSING
BULKXFER
 Supports both OS File Name (.MCD) and MC File
Name formats.
 If processing .MCD files, bulkxfer will first convert these files to
models (MC format) into the group,user BULK,XFER.
 Multi-file Helix tables are merged into single-file CCD symbol tables
 It creates new symbol table pages
 Processes format overplots (sys,format)
 Format models are converted to CCD models
 Helix format model information is appended to the current CCD format table. This table
is then sorted.
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 Processes symbol and font tables (sys,symbol)
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BATCH PROCESSING
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BULKXFER’S SAMPLE OS FILE FORMAT SCREEN
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BATCH PROCESSING
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BULKXFER’S SAMPLE MC FILE FORMAT SCREEN
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HELIX MIGRATION PROCEDURE
RECOMMENDED MIGRATION PROCEDURE
 Make sure mcxtranv4 is running in the background.
 Then, using bulkxfer, transfer each subgroup (user).
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 Use bulkxfer to process the symbol, formats and
font tables first.
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INTERACTIVE SETUP
DEFINE A CADAM FILE SYSTEM
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 RUN \CCDraft\cadprof.exe
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INTERACTIVE SETUP
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START CCD AND SET REMOTE SYSTEM
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INTERACTIVE SETUP
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CLICK ON REMOTE, THEN FILE OPEN. ENTER GROUP AND PRESS ENTER.
SELECT USER AND DOUBLE-CLICK ON HELIX MODEL NAME.
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OLDER VERSIONS
MICROCADAM PLUS R14.X MUST BE MIGRATED TO
HELIX V4 BEFORE MIGRATING TO CCD.
 MIGRATION TOOLS
 R14file.exe (calls & refiles all models)
 R14 Data Manager Fix Model
 DMNDOS Export/Import
 R14 Server
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 Remote Function Key
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