1. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 200010031 © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum Helix Migration Workshop WKG 1 & 2 SUBJECT: Helix V4R3 Migration to CCD and CATIA V5 on Windows NAME: Pierre Devaux for Ozzie Marquez October 3, 2000

2. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 200010032 © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum MIGRATION METHODS  DXF OR DWG – (GOOD, BUT SOME RE-WORK)  NURESTOR – (BETTER, BUT HAS LIMITATIONS)  MCXTRAN – (SUPERIOR RESULTS) HELIX MIGRATION

3. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 200010033 © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum FEATURES OF THE MCXTRAN DIRECT TRANSLATOR  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. HELIX MIGRATION

4. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 200010034 © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum SUPPORTED RELEASES  Helix 2000 V4R3 or Helix 2000 V5  CATIA-CADAM Drafting (CCD) V423 or V5R4  CATIA V5R4 HELIX MIGRATION

5. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 200010035 © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS  Windows NT and 2000  Helix data files MUST reside on an NTFS formatted drive  Windows 95 and 98  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 HELIX MIGRATION

6. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 200010036 © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum HELIX MIGRATION PACKAGE, AVAILABLE FOR WINDOWS AND AIX FROM www.cadam.com CONTAINS: www.cadam.com  A Detailed Migration Guide  The Translator  The Batch Utility  Character Mapping Tables HELIX MIGRATION PACKAGE

7. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 200010037 © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum 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.exewww.cadam.com  The package contains:  The Migration Guide in HTML format  Executables (copy to corresponding CCDraft directory)  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 HELIX MIGRATION PACKAGE

8. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 200010038 © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum 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)  Plot\color_map HELIX MIGRATION PACKAGE

9. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 200010039 © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum 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.  No additional license is required to run mcxtran.  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 REQUIREMENTS

10. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 2000100310 © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum 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. REQUIREMENTS

11. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 2000100311 © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum 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\name-8859_ucs-2.map 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. REQUIREMENTS

12. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 2000100312 © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum 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.  Processes symbol and font tables (sys,symbol)  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. BATCH PROCESSING

13. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 2000100313 © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum BULKXFER’S SAMPLE OS FILE FORMAT SCREEN BATCH PROCESSING

14. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 2000100314 © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum BULKXFER’S SAMPLE MC FILE FORMAT SCREEN BATCH PROCESSING

15. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 2000100315 © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum RECOMMENDED MIGRATION PROCEDURE  Make sure mcxtranv4 is running in the background.  Use bulkxfer to process the symbol, formats and font tables first.  Then, using bulkxfer, transfer each subgroup (user). HELIX MIGRATION PROCEDURE

16. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 2000100316 © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum DEFINE A CADAM FILE SYSTEM  RUN \CCDraft\cadprof.exe INTERACTIVE SETUP

17. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 2000100317 © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum START CCD AND SET REMOTE SYSTEM INTERACTIVE SETUP

18. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 2000100318 © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum CLICK ON REMOTE, THEN FILE OPEN. ENTER GROUP AND PRESS ENTER. SELECT USER AND DOUBLE-CLICK ON HELIX MODEL NAME. INTERACTIVE SETUP

19. HELIX MIGRATION WORKSHOP WKG 1&2 2000100319 © 1997 – 2000 DASSAULT SYSTEMES DASSAULT SYSTEMES Information for Users Forum 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  Remote Function Key  DMNDOS Export/Import  R14 Server OLDER VERSIONS