Step 3D adapter

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This section provides basic materials for use by CDF Domain Experts.

PURPOSE OF THE SOFTWARE

The DST STEP-AP242 Adapter was developed in order to improve access to geometries (STEP-AP242 format) that are related to some entities stored in an engineering model that is shared using COMET Webservices. With this software, you will be able to retrieve STEP-3D file that are stored in the Domain File Store of the engineering model and the one that are linked to existing entities (Element Definition and/or Element Usages) with a mapping. Here, it means that we can retrieve directly a STEP-3D file containing the Feature or the Part describing the Element Definition or Element Usage. In the other direction, you will then be able to make the mapping of some entities (Features and Parts) stored in the local STEP-3D file with Element Definition and/or Element Usages stored in CDP4 engineering model.

EXTERNAL VIEW OF THE SOFTWARE

The application is provided in a ZIP file including the runtime libraries required. For more information, please refer to Section 2.2. Three STEP-AP242 model files were also included in the ZIP file. The ECSS-E-TM-10-25 data source must be provided by your organization according to the model to interact with.

OPERATIONS ENVIRONMENT

General

The STEP-AP242 adapter is stand-alone application, so no installation of the software itself is required. It is sufficient to run the executable “DEHPSTEPAP242.exe” to get the adapter running. The software runs on Microsoft Windows 64-bit platform.

Hardware Configuration

The minimum hardware configuration is the following.

  • 1 GHz or faster processor
  • 512 MB of RAM
  • 110 MB of available hard disk space + cache space of STEP 3D files (model dependent)
  • A display with a minimum resolution of 800 pixels by 600 pixels

Software Configuration

Supported Operating System

The STEP-AP242 adapter is targeting .Net 4.7.2. Therefore, it is compatible with the following platform:

  • Windows 7 SP1 (x64)
  • Windows 8.1 (x64)
  • Windows 10 Anniversary Update (x64)
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (x64)
  • Windows Server 2012 (x64)
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64)
  • Windows Server 2016 (x64)

It requires a 64-bit system.

Runtime

The STEP-AP242 adapter requires that the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2 is installed in order to run. Which is usually the case by default if you are running an up-to-date version of Windows 10. The STEP-AP242 adapter includes libraries created on C++ Visual Studio 2019, therefore the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2019 (provided in the package) must be installed.

COMET® WebServices

The minimal version of the COMET® WebServices is version 7.0.5. The recommended version is 7.0.7.

Operational Constraints

Start-up

When the adapter starts, you can connect to a E-TM-10-25 model. Once this is done, you should be able to browse the ElementDefinition tree. You can open a local STEP-AP242 file to inspect the HLR without connection to the E-TM-10-25 model, but the default mapping will not be available until the connection to the model is stablished.

Transfer and Mapping

The STEP-AP242 adapter lets you transfer STEP entities information (STEP File Id, label, and assembly composition) from a STEP file to an E-TM-10-25 model.

Impact view

The described functionalities in 1.4.2 register themselves in a process where once you have defined what STEP part to transfer to what destination, you have the possibility to preview the impact on the target model.

Then you can transfer your mapped parts to their configured destination. By default, all the mapped data will be transferred. Alternatively, you can select or deselect items you want transfer in the impact view.

Transfer

When you choose to transfer, the mapped values are then transferred to the configured target model. In the case anything goes wrong at this stage, you can cancel, and it will delete every configured mapping.

Saved Mapping Configuration

When a transfer has been done, the mapping configuration is saved in the open E-TM-10-25 Iteration. This saved mapping configuration is applied each time you map one thing that have been mapped already. This mapping is available to any user of the adaptor and can be overridden.

Operations Basics

From the moment the adapter has started. In order you can

  • Connect to a E-TM-10-25 data source.
  • Load a STEP-AP242 file.
  • Map some parts from to the connected E-TM-10-25 Element Definition or Element Usage through the step geometry compound parameter.
  • Preview the net change.
  • Transfer the mapped parts.
  • Download existing STEP files from E-TM-10-25 data source.
  • Open existing STEP files from E-TM-10-25 data source using the default STEP viewer already installed in the system.

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