Connectors Overview

The Connectors provide two generic functions:

• Bridge Out— the exportation of Capital Systems Modeler design or build list data in a format acceptable to third party design systems.

• import Connectivity — the import of new and revised connectivity into a design - that was previously authored and bridged out from Capital and since modified, or designed using a third-party design system.

File translators, known as the Connectors (that are specific to each third-party design system), automatically re-format the outgoing and incoming design data to the specific format required by each system.

During the bridge out procedures, design data is initially extracted from Capital as an X2ML formatted file. X2ML is the Capital 3D Wiring proprietary XML-based format that is used by the Connectors to create a suitably formatted design file for the various third-party design systems. For example, when using the CATIA V5 Electrical Adaptor, the Capital design data is initially (and invisibly) exported using the X2ML format before being automatically re-formatted to a Dassault Systèmes iXF formatted XML file.

Conversely, whenever a third-party design system's design file is bridged into Capital, the Connectors automatically convert the file to the X2ML format prior to importing the design data into Capital.

Note

Before you can use Connectors the bridge types that you wish to utilize, and hence wish to appear in the Files of Type list in the Bridge Data In/Bridge Data Out dialogs, must be un-commented in the 1- Adaptors declarations section of the adaptors.xml file. Once un-commented, the same adaptors will appear in all applicable Capital product Connector lists. For guidance see the Usage Example - Modifying the Adaptors.xml File.

For further information, see the Capital Connectors User Guide User Guide.

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Capital Systems Modeler User Guide, 2512.2606

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