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Translation Log - When you enable this option, a log report will print out for every read or write operation. This can sometimes be useful in debugging a file that either doesn't load or load but there are no entities. This log file will tell you what kind of geometry - if any - is contained in the file.
Repair Error Reporting - per the instructions under the check box, this option will disable Error Reporting during Repair. Sometimes Repairing a model will return many error depending on the quality of the file. You will often be able to fully Repair a file even when there are errors. So disabling this option will eliminate the error checking and avoid multiple error reports. However, by disabling the error reporting can allow a crash that would not have occurred if the error reporting was turned on. This is generally rare.
Units - Use this pull-down menu to set your preferred application units. These units will be set to any file you write to and any operation involving units in TransMagic will display the results in these units.
Part Name Character Mapping - Many CAD systems will give automatic individual part names to each part in a file if the user did not explicitly do so. For example, let's say you have a CATIA V4 file with 3 solid parts in it. CATIA V4 will automatically name the parts *SOL1, *SOL2, *SOL3. To see the part names in TransMagic go to Tools->Assembly Browser. Now let's say you want to translate this CATIA V4 file with the 3 parts in it into a Parasolid file so you can bring the file into SolidWorks. SolidWorks will create a 3 part assembly from this file. Each individual part will be save as a *.sldprt file automatically upon reading into SolidWorks. SolidWorks and presumably other CAD systems that operate in this way will create a file name based on the part name. So when SolidWorks automatically tries to save a file with a name of *SOL.sldprt, Windows will not allow this because "*" is an illegal file name character - as well as "\/:*?"<>|". None of these characters can be used in a file name. So TransMagic will automatically re-map these illegal characters to part names so as to prevent this scenario from occurring. If your CAD system does not save individual files by part names then you may wish to un-check the "Re-name Parts With Supported Characters" box and your part names will come through as originally created by the originating CAD system.
Reset Defaults - Click this button to Reset to General TransMagic default settings.