V5 to 3DEXPERIENCE Data Import Table
The following table describes import correspondences between V5 file-based data and 3DEXPERIENCE content.
The statuses for import results are fully imported, partially imported, and not imported (-).
| V5 Data Type
|
3DEXPERIENCE
Content Type
|
Import Result
|
| Mechanisms
|
Mechanism representation
|
Fully Imported
If the V5 mechanism includes laws, the
3DEXPERIENCE
mechanism representation is placed under the
Model node of a new simulation object.
|
| Law based on formula
|
Formula is imported as a Relation, and the Law is imported as an
Excitation referring to the formula.
|
Fully imported
|
| Law based on spline sketch
|
Spline sketch is imported, and the law is imported as an
Excitation referring a resource table and a rule.
|
Fully imported
|
Considerations
You should take the following considerations into account:
- Import of Mechanisms
- The following items in a CATIA V5 mechanism are not imported to
3DEXPERIENCE:
- Distance, speed, and interference analyses
- Sensors
- Simulations created in DMU Kinematics Simulator
- For a V5 joint that contains no V5 assembly constraints, axis systems are created in the engineering connection to replace the original geometries used in the V5 joint.
- For a V5 U joint based on two
lines (non-associative) or two axis-systems (associative), two axis systems are
created in the engineering connection to replace the original geometries used
in the V5 joint. But if there is an equivalent set of V5 constraints
(coincidence and angle) in V6, axis systems are not generated, which makes the
V6 U joint associative and geometrical modifications are supported.
- Import of Joints with Driven Kinematic Commands
- If you import a V5 kinematic joint driven by a command in the 3DEXPERIENCE, no geometry is associated as support for that command.
- As a consequence, a new constraint is created for the joint. The constraint supports are computed, based on existing geometries from the model.
- This additional constraint is created for the following joint types:
- Revolute
- Prismatic
- Cylindrical
- Screw
- Gear
- Rack
- Cable
- Depending on the degrees of freedom of the imported joint, an additional constraint is created
and defined.
| Joint Degrees of Freedom |
Additional Constraint |
Mode |
Preferences |
First Support |
Second Support |
Third Support |
| Translation |
Offset |
Controlled |
Above, Same |
Computed plane, normal to the first edge. |
Computed plane, normal to the second edge. |
— |
| Rotation |
Hinge |
Controlled |
Sector1 |
Computed plane including the first edge
(axis). |
Computed plane including the second edge
(axis). |
Edge (corresponding to the first edge). |
Notes:
- In the Engineering Connection Definition
dialog box, you can specify the constraint value, lower value,
and upper value, but the constraint mode, preferences, and
supports are defined by default and cannot be edited.
- Computed supports are not highlighted in the tree or in the 3D area.
- Screw Joints - Deleting Constraints
- If you import a V5 Screw joint and delete the Hinge constraint, the
Coincidence and Offset constraints are automatically deleted.
- Structure Diagrams - V5 vs 3DEXPERIENCE
- In CATIA V5, the components of a kinematics
simulation are collected under the Product
node in the tree; in 3DEXPERIENCE a kinematics simulation is a
separate object that refers to a product, a mechanism representation, and simulation
specifications (excitations, probes, and scenarios).
- If a V5 product includes a mechanism definition, it is imported into
3DEXPERIENCE as a product with an associated
mechanism representation.
| V5 Tree Elements |
3DEXPERIENCE Tree Elements
|
| Product
|
Product
|
| Constraints
|
Mechanism
|
| Applications
|
|
| Mechanism
|
Engineering connections
|
|
|
- If the V5 mechanism includes laws that are used to drive a
simulation of the mechanism, a simulation object is created in 3DEXPERIENCE; the mechanism is imported as
the Model in the simulation, while the laws
are imported as Excitations in the simulation
scenario (as described in the table above).
| V5 Tree elements |
3DEXPERIENCE tree elements
|
| Product
|
Simulation
|
| Constraints
|
Model
|
| Applications
|
- Product
- Mechanism
- Engineering Connections
|
| Mechanism
|
Scenario
|
|
|
- Excitations
- Scenario
- Relations
|
|