When converting a Catia file, it can happen that planes are converted and imported as well. The reason is that planes are stored in Catia's No Show. You needs to disable the "Import No Show" in the import option pannel.
Another advantage is that the parts will have better triangulation because in relative mode, the chordal error is calculated based on the bounding box of your model. Large planes will therefore prevent the program to calculate an optimum chordal error.
Catia V5 import planes
Clearance checking results
It is possible to save the clearance checking results in XML, HTML, CVS, and Microsoft EXCEL formats.
If the result is saved in an XML file, you will be able to reload it later in Seemage.
Search on metadata when geometry is not loaded
Metadata (or metaproperty) can be added to parts or assemblies. usually it comes from the PLM/PDM/ERP or CAD software. In seemage, user can also creates is own metadata. Such information is stored in the XML of the part or assembly. It means that in seemage you can search for a metadata even if the geometry is not loaded. Imagine that you have a big model (60 thousand parts) and you need to search and see just one of them (on a poor laptop...
In seemage you can load the tree structure without the geometry (very fast), then search for the reference and then decide to load the result. And this is also available in seemage free Viewers (EXE, PDF, HTML etc.). The video below will show you how to search ... and find.
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Expode or merge objects
Seemage Mockup or Publisher allow to explode a part in faces and also merge faces into one part (body). It is commonly use when you want, for a sigle part, to have severel renderings. The idea is to show the faces that need to be burnished.
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Level of details
Seemage can handle with level of details from ProE® and CATIA® files.
In video below, you will see how to:
- set the correct parameters in seemage Sync to have 3 level of details for each part,
- how to load the product in seemage and choose which level of detail
- how to change the level of detail for a specific part
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Occlusion to select non visible parts
Seemage Mockup and Publisher integrate the Simplification module. As part of this module, you can use Occlusion to detect all non-visible objects from a 3D environment. In the video below you will see that the gearbox has many internal (and non visible parts). Occlusion module will help you to quickly select those non-visible parts. This model has 627 parts. Occlusion will detect 566 non-visible parts. So 90% of the parts are non-visible from outside. If you delete those parts, you reduce the seemage file from 90% (approx.), and the 3D view will stay the same.
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Automatic generation of images
It is possible to generate automatically images from Views or animation.
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Create your own coordinate system
User can create several coordinate systems and use them form:
- measurements according to those references
- change the general one
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Automatic clone detection
It happens that instances are not managed from your original file format (for example U3D import). Seemage can search and find objects which as the same geometry and creates instances. It helps to reduce the seemage file size.
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Automatic regeneration of downstream deliverables
See how to re-generate some deliverables (like SVG outputs from seemage) after a CAD change.
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How to link a label attach to an object
This animation will help you to see how you can attach a line from a label to a 2D object or to a geometry.
If you want to attach a line to a 2D Image, the 2DImage must be created first and then the first line of the label has to be apply to this 2D Image. For geometry, it does not mater. In previous versions, if you want to re-attach a line to an object, use "alt" key when you drag the end of the line.
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BOM table in PDF U3D publication
Using U3D format for PDF publication, if you want to publish callouts, ou need to check option "generate BOM table" in the U3D config panel.
Locking events
See how content creators have complete control of the presentation of 3D information.
We start with SolidWorks. Next, we show how very useful Seemage Viz is for content creators. Finally, we show the results in a PDF.
Locking bacground events helps to freeze some possiblities like zoom, rotate, highlight etc. So event if seemage application is 3D only, you can simulate a 2D behaviour in a animation or view. It helps non-3d user to enter into this new world.
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Compression level with Solidworks output
The compression level of the Seemage files generated with the Solidworks' plugin is determined by the 'default document property'. To get better results and a higher accuracy for your models, be sure to go in Settings/default document property/Output and to turn the compression level to Low(High quality). But tesselation output will also be managed from Solidworks. See this article
Annotations on 2D Images
It is possible to attach annotation to the parts but also to collaborative objects such as 2D images. In video below, you will see how to create a 2D panel from a Digger view and then attach labels to this object. It is commonly used in maintenance manuals
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Path without collision
This demonstrates Seemage Path Planning. See how Seemage can solve an abstract problem very easily: the path a ball must take to get out of a maze. Also how to remove parts in a maintenance situation. Thanks to Kineo® integration
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