A few thousand IGES files take a considerable amount of time to open / import into CATIA. I would like to understand which are the ways to optimize this use-case.
CATIA V5 has the option to import various file formats, like IGS, through File -> Open. When importing say, one IGS file, a dialog like "Converting Data..." is shown.
When importing a few thousands or more from such files, the data conversion step on a recent Intel PC with enough RAM seems to take a significant amount of time.
I would like to understand more about this conversion in order to optimize the use-case when importing multiple files takes "longer than usual".
Does someone maybe know into which file format is CATIA converting an IGS (or other file format) file internally during a File -> Open operation? Is it a CATIA internal or a standard file-format which may be used to avoid this data conversion during the CATIA File import operation?
Could this CATIA "data conversion" step be parallelized (either partly or fully) and / or cached, for example on CPUs with multiple cores, to reduce the overall import time? Would a custom CATIA plugin be useful to obtain a considerable (at least 2x) improvement?
What other ways to optimize such use-cases are you aware of?
Thank you for your answers!
You can try the batch utility from tools (which is working in background) if you have the necessary license. Or you can create a macro to open the files in batch mode, convert them to CATIA files, save where you want and close. You can find related articles here https://v5vb.wordpress.com/
