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You can open and insert files from many other modeling applications into SpaceClaim for editing, and save your SpaceClaim designs as many different file types. If you work frequently with non-SpaceClaim files, we recommend that you set your file options to optimize the importing and exporting process for your needs.
Select SpaceClaim Options from the File menu to display the SpaceClaim Options window.
Click File Options in the navigation panel on the left.
Select a file type in the panel on the left to change options for just that type of file.
Descriptions of all options are listed below.
If you try to enter a value that is out of the allowed range in the Options panel or the SpaceClaim Options dialog, you will see a red exclamation mark icon next to the field. You can hover over the icon to see a tooltip that will explain the valid values for the option. |
Click General in the panel on the left.
Check:
Load model in background to orient large designs while they are loading.
Load lightweight only to open external components as lightweight graphics representations when opening SCDOC files. This option is disabled when Load model in background is unchecked.
You cannot toggle a lightweight component's display Off using the checkbox in the Structure Tree. Lightweight components cannot be modified which includes their display status.
Use SpaceClaim color tones when importing to use the SpaceClaim color scheme for layers. This option is enabled by default to avoid fully saturated colors, on which highlighting is less visible. Faces of imported data will retain their original color tones if this option is turned off.
Create multiple documents when importing assemblies to open or insert a non-SpaceClaim assembly as multiple documents. When you save your design, click References to adjust where the documents are saved.
Use matching SpaceClaim documents for faster import if a design contains an external component that was previously imported and converted to the SpaceClaim .scdoc format,and you want to re-use that previously imported file.
When SpaceClaim is integrated with a manufacturing application, this option is ignored. In the manufacturing use case, it is common to alter geometry to accommodate manufacturing processes and save the model with the same name. If this option is on, it could cause the manufacturing version to be overwritten.
Automatically save imported documents to immediately save an opened or inserted non-SpaceClaim file to an SCDOC file. (If you do not select this option, then opened or inserted files are not saved until you save the design.) Make sure that Save imported document and load as lightweight is NOT checked if you do not want to save any imported documents.
Improve imported data to improve a file when it is opened or inserted. You can choose to have SpaceClaim Clean and simplify geometry, Stitch nearby surfaces together, and Find coincident surfaces within a tolerance that you specify. De-selecting this option imports the file without improvements so the file appears more quickly, but you may have to perform the improvements manually.
Use lightweight assemblies for imported documents: If you select this option, then you can select one of the following load methods:
Save imported document and load as lightweight: When this option is selected, the imported file will be opened in memory. An SCDOC file will be created for each part in the file, saved, and then loaded as lightweight, which frees the heavyweight data from memory. You will see an entirely lightweight assembly. If you then right-click on one of the lightweight components and select Load Component, then the part will be fully loaded very quickly. Also, this method displays the color of imported parts. The methods below do not. PMI information cannot be imported with a lightweight model.
Lightweight assembly structure and geometry: This method imports the document just like in the above option, creating lightweight parts in SpaceClaim, but no SCDOC files are created or saved. As a result, this option uses less memory than the above method when importing the document; however, if you use Load Component on one of the lightweight components, the entire document must be re-imported in order to get all of the data for the component. Loading the component can be very slow. This method is recommended if you intend only to use the lightweight facets and not the heavyweight geometry or if you are working with smaller imported documents. Since an SCDOC is not created and saved, you are able to toggle Off the display of these lightweight components using the checkbox in the Structure Tree.
Assembly structure only: Only the component name and hierarchy is created. No lightweight facets are created.
Allow import of hidden components and geometry to open or insert hidden components within CATIA v5, Parasolid, SolidWorks, and SketchUp files, and turn off their visibility in the Structure tree.
Objects to be imported has checkboxes for:
Free curves
Points
Planes
Axes
Coordinate systems
Object names
Improve data on export to improve a file when it is exported. This allows you to turn off the behavior if you don't want to merge faces and edges before a model is exported, such as exporting to Rhino.
Allow export of hidden components and geometry to save components that have their visibility turned off in your design as hidden components when you save them as any other file type. This option is supported for ACIS, Rhino, SketchUp, and SAT/SAB formats.
Select Import object names to import CATIA files with object names.
Select Export object names to export CATIA files with object names.
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