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Catia V4 Shading

Does X-Win32 Support Shading with Catia V4?

Catia V4 uses a rendering technology that predates the OpenGL standard, as such, Catia V4’s shading needs special configuration to render shading correctly. However, all other graphics operations in Catia V4 are compatible with the OpenGL standard, so Catia V4 can be used normally without shading with X-Win32.

NOTE: Shading works correctly out of the box with Catia V5.

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  1. Step 1. Edit your CATIA V4 environment.

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  2. – copy and paste the below lines to the environment file.
  3. – No spaces before any lines except for the 3rd line indentation (2 or 3 spaces is fine)
  4. – No spaces after the last character in each line.

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  6. – Example of an Environment file: /home/catadm/env/YOUR.env
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    if [ ”$DISPLAY !=” ] || [ ”$DISPLAY” != ”`hostname`:0” ] || [”$DISPLAY” != ”`hostname`:0.0”]
    then

    export gPPROFILE=$CAT_CUST/XWIN32/PROFILE
    fi

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  2. Step 2. Add the file to your CATIA V4 administrators home directory path…...

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  3. – Set the path for CAT_CUST to your CATIA V4 administrator $HOME directory
  4. – The following commands create a new file with specific lines inserted to the file using the echo command.

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  5. – Example location of completed file: /home/catadm/XWIN32/PROFILE
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    CAT_CUST=/home/catadm
    mkdir -p $CAT_CUST/XWIN32
    echo ’ AFMMNICK TOCONNID=*,’ >
    $CAT_CUST/XWIN32/PROFILE
    echo ’ TOWSTYPE=XSOFT,’ >>
    $CAT_CUST/XWIN32/PROFILE
    echo ’ PROCOPT=((STRDEVS,16),(LOCDEVS,2),(VWTBLSZ,64),(ECHOMETH,2),’ >>
    $CAT_CUST9/XWIN32/PROFILE
    echo ’ (LSTES,32))’ >>
    $CAT_CUST/XWIN32/PROFILE
    echo ”\n” >>
    $CAT_CUST/XWIN32/PROFILE
    chmod 644 $CAT_CUST/XWIN32/PROFILE

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  2. Step 3. Make sure you have all the OpenGL, X11, and GraPHIGS required for AIX..

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Category:Applications -> Catia



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