TransCAD is a 3D CAD model translator with MPA(Macro parametrics approach) between commercial CAD systems.
MPA is a methodology of exchange of model data between CAD systems using macro file, wich is modeling commands set of each commercial CAD system.
Development Environment
OS: Windows
Compilier: Visual Studio 2010
Language: C++
Compiling TransCAD requires ACIS and HOOPS of SPATIAL. ACIS and HOOPS are a commercial library. However, if you are students or educators in university, you can use ACIS and HOOPS freely.
In this section, we assume that you already have ACIS and HOOPS license. To compile TransCAD, you should use specific version of ACIS and HOOPS.
- ACIS : version R25
- HOOPS : version 1919
Step 1.
Download ACIS and HOOPS library and extract them
Step 2.
Add environment variables
-
ACIS
Variable name: A3DT
Variable location: yourPath\acisR25 -
HOOPS
Variable name: HOOPS_INSTALL_DIR
Variable location: yourPath\HOOPS-1919_VS_2010
Step 3.
Add variable locations to Path
- ACIS
%A3DT%\NT_VC_DLL\code\bin
%A3DT%\NT_VC12_DLLD\code\bin
- HOOPS
%HOOPS_INSTALL_DIR%\bin\nt_i386_vc12
%HOOPS_INSTALL_DIR%\bin\nt_i386_vc12d
Step 4.
- Make a "RegBin" folder
- Download additional files and paste those file into RegBin folder
- Copy files and paste into RegBin folder
< Hoops files >
- base_stream.dll
- hoops_mfcu1919_vc10.dll
- hoops_mfcu1919_vc10d.dll
- hoops_mvo1919_vc10.dll
- hoops_mvo1919_vc10d.dll
- hoops_stream1919_vc10.dll
- hoops_stream1919_vc10d.dll
- hoops1919_vc10.dll
- hoops1919_vc10d.dll
< ACIS files >
- SpaACIS.dll
- SpaACISd.dll
- SPAAcisDs.dll
- SpaHBridge.dll
- SpaHBridged.dll
- SPAIAcis.dll
- SPAIInterop.dll
- SPAIInteropC.dll
- SPAIop.dll
- SPAIopAcisC.dll
- SPAIopC.dll
- SPAXAcis.dll
- SPAXAcisBase.dll
- SPAXAcisKernel.dll
- SPAXAcisMeshDS.dll
- SPAXAssemblyRep.dll
- SPAXBase.dll
- SPAXBoundaryRep.dll
- SPAXCommon.dll
- SPAXGeometryRepresentation.dll
- SPAXicuuc38.dll
- SPAXIges.dll
- SPAXInterop.dll
- SPAXIop.dll
- SPAXIopAcis.dll
- SPAXPMIRep.dll
- SPAXStep.dll
- SPAXVisualizationAsm.dll
- SPAXVisualizationRep.dll
Extract to TransCAD source code folder
The folder structure is shown below.
TransCAD
-RegBin
-Src
-TransCAD.sln
Step 5. Building TransCAD