Configure

Table of Contents

• Configuration File
• Main Options
• Tessellated Formats
• Detailled information

Configuration File

The configuration file dtkConfig.dtk is located in the following folder: C:\Users\[user_name]\AppData\Roaming\Datakit\CrossManager

as shown in the dialog box under "Configure":

It is now made possible to select a different path for the configuration file via the button
The button makes it easy to get back to the default path.

Main Options

When "Output Format" is "IGES" or "STEP" you are allowed to filter some kinds of data by unchecking the checkbox "correction" (if not, the "Config" button is not active) When you Press the "Config" button, the following dialog box looks like that :

Parts can be deleted or written as blanked entities, as well as Assemblies or FDT.

Wireframe entities or FDT entities can be filtered and removed from the output. The Dialog Box allows three parameters :

• Choose one model out of several in a catalog.
• Select a new referential by choosing an Axis placement.
• Process of Layer by activation of a filter.

The converter allows you operate this transformation into the model :

• All geometric entities can be converted into nurbs (curves and surfaces)
• Keep assembly information or not.
• Keep Solid entities as group or not.

Tessellated Formats

When the selected "Output Format" is "STL", "VRML", "CGR", "Collada", "JT" or "PDF 3D", the "Config" menu provides additional options to set the tessellation parameters:

Tessellation settings :

• Tolerances Values :
  • Linear Tolerance
    
    Disable: disables the consideration of a linear tolerance factor.
    Current value: linear tolerance value in millimeters, it corresponds to the maximal chord error between the surface and the triangle (see below).
    
  • Angular Tolerance
    
    Disable: disables the consideration of an angular tolerance factor.
    Current value: angular tolerance factor in degrees, it corresponds to the maximal allowed drift between a triangle's edge and the tangent to the surface (see below).
    
• Use Existing Meshes or Force Tesselation :
  
  Some input formats contain both a tessellated representation of the geometry and exact geometry, in this case onecan choose whether the tessellated geometry is directly recovered from the input file ("Use Existing Meshes") or if the tessellation is recomputedaccording to the parameters defined above ("Force Tesselation").
  
  The input formats concerned are JT, Catia V5 and CATIA V6.
  
  Logically, if the input file contains exact geometry only, this option is not taken into account: the tessellation isautomatically calculated even if "Use Existing Meshes" is selected.

Detailled information

See more info into Configuration File / Options