Importers are usually named after the CAD file format they import. For more information about an importer, click the icon to the left of the component name.
Click the respective checkbox(es) to associate specific importer file extensions with SpinFire Insight. This association allows you to open a native CAD file from Windows Explorer, starting a new session of SpinFire Insight.
In the Configure column, the Options buttons open a dialog box that feature settings for each importer (e.g., Attributes and Tessellation Level and Type). Each importer has its own set of unique options. A few examples of common option settings are
Whether or not to import metadata from the native CAD file.
Whether or not to search recursively in specified directories.
The precision of trimesh approximation.
Document types: 3D or 2D or both.
Whether or not to import PMI data.
When you mouse over a setting title, an description of the setting is displayed in a tooltip.
After you have made desired changes in the dialog box, be sure to click the OK button.
All Options
In the All Options, your changes will apply to one or more importers at the same time.
Document types Sets the type of documents to import from the CAD File. The choice is Only 3D, Only 2D or Both
B-rep Mode Sets the import mode for B-Rep Data in the CAD File
Tesellation Level Can be set Extra Low, Low, Medium, High, Extra High
Advanced Tessellation Options
Tessellation Type - The Tessellation type to be used
Tessellation Chord Limit type - The tessellation chord limit type to be used
Tessellation Chord Height Ratio - The ratio of the tessellation chod height to the bounding box height, in the range [50,10000)]
Tessellation Chord Height Limit - The maximum distance between the surface definition and the tessellation approximation. Careful; a value too small can generate a large tessellation resulting in a lengththy loading time.
Tessellation Angle Tolerance - The maximum angle in degrees between two consecutive wire elements in the generated tessellation, in the range [10,40]
Accurate Tessellation - Whether to use the accurate tessellation algorithim. If the accurate tessellation algorithm is not used, the standard tessellation algorithm will be used.
Accurate Normals - Whether to compute surface normals when performing accurate tessellation
Tessellation Maximum Edge Length - The maximum length of tirangle edges in the tessellation generated for b-rep data. the value must be non-negative and if set to 0.0, the length will not be used when generating the tesselation. Careful; a value too small can generate a large tessellation resulting in a lengthy loading time.
Tessellation Preservs UV Points - Whether to keep parametric points as texture coordinates when generating the tessellation for b-rep data.
Filters
Solids - Whether Solids are imported.
Surfaces - Whether Surfaces are imported.
Wireframes - Whether Wireframes are imported.
PMI - Whether PMI are imported.
Attributes - Whether Attributes are imported.
Hidden Objects - Whether Hidden Objects are imported.
Construction and References - Whether to import construction entities, such as planes and axes.
Assemblies
Check for Missing Parts - Whether to check for missing parts before loading a file.
Recursive Directory search - Whether to search recursively in each of the specified search directories.
Search directories - The directories to search for files references by a CAD assembly.
Drawings
Annotations - Whether to import annotations.
Shaded Views - Whether to import shaded views from drawings.
Hidden Entities - Whether to import entities that are present, but currently hidden in the drawings.
Constructions Entitites - Whether to import construction entities, such as planes and axes.
Line Thickness - Whether to use the line thickness values for drawings.
Black and White - Whether to ignore all color information and use black on white background for drawings.
Performance
Load Surfaces on Demand - Whether to load surfaces in the assembly tree when needed and not during file loading.
Static Model Enabled - Whether to use static model optimizations in order to improve rendering performance, especially for large models.
Prevent Thumbnail Creation - Whether to prevent the thumbnail creation while loading a document. Check this to speed up the loading of large files.
Autodesk AutoCAD Specific
Embedded Tessellation - Whether to use the tessellation embedded in the file.
Catia V4 Specific
Cache Path - Path to the folder to be used for the Catia V4 cache
Detail Sheets - Whether to include detail sheets when importing.
Catia V5 Specific
Cache Path - Path to the folder to be used for the Catia V5 cache
Detail Sheets - Whether to include detail sheets when importing.
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) Specific
Edges - Whether Edges are imported.
Face Optimization - Whether to use face optimization
Metadata - Whether to import all IFC metadata or to import only each part’s global id.
Pro/Engineer & Creo Parametric Specific
Construction Entities Mode - Whether and how to import construction entities. You can use the Datum setting to determine whether to import them.
Datum - Whether datums are visible.
Dimension Tolerance - Whether to import dimension tolerances.
Exploded Views - Whether to create additional views, with each view representing an explode state.
Family Table Source - The source for Family Tables. You can use B-rep available in Accelerator files (.xpr and .xas). Or if B-rep is not available use tessellation. Or always import, even if no tessellation and no B-rep is available, in which case a wire generic entity will be imported.
Home View - Whether to create an additional home view.
Missing Boolean - Whether to import the entities making up a boolean operation.
Missing Flexible component - Whether to try to import a flexible component, even in the case where the tessellation for the component cannot be found.
Session Colors - The session color to use for PMI in Wildfire files which have no color. You can use the default session color for the latest version of Creo supported or the default session color or the default PMI color.
Skeletons - Whether to import skeleton entities.
Subpart PMI - Whether to import subpart PMI.
Rhino Specific
Rendered Mode Colors - Whether to import rendered mode colors instead of shaded mode colors.
Siemens PLM Software’s NX Specific
Fitted Camera - Whether to make view cameras fit all visible geometry.
SpinFire Professional Specific
SpinFire 10 Executable Path - You can use SpinFire version 10.9.1 and above, to convert .3D files with version older than SpinFire 10.
STEP Specific
Field Name - The field to get the assembly or part name from, for a STEP file. You can either use the name from the item, or the ID of the next item reference or the name of the next item reference or the description of the next item reference.
First Color Preference - Whether to prefer the first color if geometry has several colors, for a STEP file.
Orientation Healing - Whether to heal face orientations. Setting to true will improve volume and weight calculations at the cost of longer loading time.
Shell Based Surface Model Splitting - Whether to split shell based surface models with several open shells into several bodies. Each logical body is put into a separate B-rep entity if set to true.
Validation Properties - Whether to import validation properties.
TIFF Specific
Smooth - Whether images should be filtered to appear smoother.
Misc
Active Filters - Whether to only import data from the active filter in the CAD File.
Configuration - Specifics which configurations to load.
Default Unit - Sets the units to use for a CAD File if it is not well defined. This option is restricted to those formats where unit never exists ort is unreliable (U3D, CGR, STL, VRML)
Feature Trees - Whether to import feature trees that represent all the steps that have been taken in a CAD Design system to create the final part.
Generate Missing Edges - Whether to generate missing edges.
Random Colors - Whether to assign a random color to a part when it’s color information is missing.
Sew - Whether to sew the model after importing it.
Sew Tolerance - The tolerance to use for sewing the model after importing it.
