About Exporting Parts and Assemblies to CADDS 5 with Associative Topology Bus
You can export only Creo Parametric-owned parts and assemblies to CADDS 5 which includes the following:
• The top-level Creo Parametric assembly
• Creo Parametric part and subassembly components of the top-level assembly
• Imported CADDS 5 models that have been modified in Creo Parametric
Exported CADDS 5 models are designated as Translated Image Models (TIMs) in CADDS 5 because of the ATB-enabled export.
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 If you change a CADDS 5 TIM after the last export, the 'ownership' of the TIM changes to Creo Parametric, especially if you incorporate these TIMs into a heterogeneous assembly and export it back to CADDS 5. As a Creo Parametric user, you can export the model again to the same location or file and update the exported geometry. |
You can export again only those TIMs that have changed. For example, for an assembly, only those component models that have been modified can be exported back to CADDS 5 while all other component models are skipped during the export.
When the modified CADDS 5 TIM is exported back to CADDS 5, only those components of the heterogeneous assembly are exported that are owned by Creo Parametric. The modified CADDS 5 TIM overwrites the original CADDS 5 model breaking the association with the original CADDS 5 reference model.
Imported CADDS 5 components of the top-level assembly are not exported to CADDS 5. Instead, the exported top-level assembly uses the actual CADDS 5 parts and assemblies referenced by the imported objects of the top-level Creo Parametric assembly.