UniGraphics File Support in Solid Edge

Solid Edge allows native Unigraphics files to be used in Solid Edge models.

Such UG files are linked to the Solid Edge models. This facility is also supported in the Integration by allowing the checkin and checkout of UG files linked to the Solid Edge files. For this purpose all external links with file extension of ".prt" will be treated as UG files.

Note that Connector for Solid Edge does NOT allow the user to checkin UG files as UG objects through the Connector for Solid Edge.

OOTB, the integration will treat all the linked UG files as OLE inserts. All operations allowed on an SE OLE insert are possible on these objects also.

If the user has ENOVIA Collaborative Design for UniGraphics Integration installed, and wants the UG files to behave as UG objects instead of OLE Inserts, then he needs to configure theConnector for Solid Edge GCO accordingly

The following changes need to be done in the Connector for Solid Edge GCO to add support for UG objects:

  • MCADInteg-BusTypeMapping: Append the following line to the existing value:
ugcomponent|UG Model
  • MCADInteg-TypePolicyMapping: Append the following lines to the existing value:
UG Model|UG Design Policy
  • MCADInteg-TypeFormatMapping: Append the following lines to the existing value:
ugcomponent||UG Model,prt
component|UG Model,prt

Open the business module and add the following types on the TO end of the "LinkedObject" relationship:

  • UG Model

After all the above settings are done, the linked UG files will be supported in checkin/checkout as UG objects. In checkin, such UG objects will be unselectable by design to avoid checkin of UG files from SolidEdge. Thus SolidEdge Integration supports ONLY linking to the existing UG objects, in ENOVIA.

Consider an example where a Solid Edge part (solidedgepart.par) is having an UG part (ugpart.prt) inserted in it. The following section describes the behavior of checkin and checkout of such a structure.

On the checkin page as shown below, the solidedgepart will have the ugpart below it connected by the LinkedObject relationship. The ugpart will be "unselectable" and after checkin only a link will be created to the existing ugpart in ENOVIA. It is important that the ugpart is already present in the database. If the linked UG part is new to ENOVIA then will not be created or linked since SolidEdge has not authored this file.

If the same structure is checked out, then the checkout page will be created .

On committing the checkout operation on this solidedgepart from ENOVIA, both the solidedgepart and the ugpart will be downloaded to the local disk, but only the Solidedge part will be loaded in the CAD Tool.

Thus the SolidEdge Integration provides the user the advantage to checkin and checkout the UG files that are linked to the SolidEdge files.