Processing Information

Recommended Settings for Conversion

This section describes the recommended setting for the conversion process. You can change the settings according to the requirements.

• Run Inventor in background: If this check box is selected, Inventor performance is not hindered during the conversion process. This setting improves the performance of the conversion process. In order to identify specific issues, you can clear this check box.
• Rows/ Request: The number of records that have to be fetched, per request. If there are a huge number of records in the PLM server, the request to fetch the records simultaneously, can fail. To avoid this scenario, the converter utility sends multiple requests. It is recommended to set this number to 50,000. For example, if the number of records in PLM is 160,000 and the value of Rows/Request is 50,000, the utility sends four requests during the generation of input log.
• For Part, Assembly, Drawing and Presentation files, the recommended setting is Convert ( if previous version).
  • Convert (if previous version): Indicates that the utility must convert the file types only if the file is of earlier version.
  • Re-Convert All: Indicates that the utility must perform re-saving of the files (even if the files are in current version). The utility is used when the conversion run is not successful.
  • Skip: Indicates that the utility must skip the file types.
• Include dependent files (for conversion): By default, the check box is cleared. This checkbox is selected for specific cases. For example, if you want to convert a particular assembly(say FILE-ID = “FILE-01585”, Version = “0003”) and the dependents in the structure, you can create a single entry (as below) representing the data set for this assembly in the “<PLM_Client>\Inventor\ ConvLogs\input.log” file as FILE- 01585_0003.IAM|0 file as FILE-01585_0003.SLDASM|0
• Get Dependents Based on: Specify the criteria based on which a request is sent for the structure. Following are the possible values:
  • Current Date (Today): Sends request using current date.
• Effective from Date of document: Sends request using Document Effective From date. This is the recommended option.

  

• Action for assembly/drawing files with missing references (at first-level) has the following options:
  • Skip File: The utility allows you to skip the assembly/drawing file, wherein the first-level dependents (as per information from CAD file) are missing.
  • Convert File: The utility does not check the existence of first-level dependents (as per information from CAD file), and directly converts the CAD file.
  • Prompt (to Convert/Skip File): If one of the first-level dependent files (as per information from CAD file) are missing, the utility provides the option to convert or skip the file.