Using the ecad_hint.add File
When ECAD creates a component .prt file automatically during import, it:
• Combines the ecad_name and ecad_alt_name as an mcad_name for the part file.
• Records the creation of the component in a text file called ecad_hint.add.
Do not confuse this with the ecad_hint.map file. However, you can use the .add file as a template for a .map file.
In the ecad_hint.add file, each part receives the following entry (examples shown as values):
Map_objects_by_name ->
ECAD_NAME "CSTCS"
ECAD_ALT_NAME "N7414N"
ECAD_TYPE " "
MCAD_NAME "CSTCS_N7414N"
MCAD_TYPE "assembly"
ECAD_PART_TYPE "Mechanical"
END
Component names that include a dollar sign ($), slash (/), period (.), or percent sign (%) are not valid. Creo+ uses the ecad_hint.add file to change each of these characters to an underscore (_). If this adjustment causes the file names to be identical, new file names are created. To use the translated names, edit the ecad_hint.add file and append it to the ecad_hint.map file.
If the ecad_hint.map file contains names that are the same except for a symbol that Creo+ does not use, it creates a new part name and notes this in the log file. For example, ecad_name Aaa$ becomes mcad_name AAA_ and ecad_name Aaa/ becomes mcad_name AAA_1.
When you do not use the ecad_hint.map file to determine the correspondence between ECAD part names and Creo+ part names, Creo+ interprets the part names of components in all uppercase letters. For example, Creo+ searches for a component named AaaA in an ECAD system as AAAA.
If you do not want the system to create an ecad_hint.add file, set the ecad_create_hint_add configuration file option to no.