TransCAD

Description

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, which is modeling commands set of each commercial CAD system.

TransCAD 7.1

GitHub Repository

https://github.com/Macro-parametrics/TransCAD

Development Environment

OS: Windows

Compiler: 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

1. ACIS

2. Variable name: A3DT

3. Variable location: yourPath\acisR25

4. HOOPS

5. Variable name: HOOPS_INSTALL_DIR

6. Variable location: yourPath\HOOPS-1919_VS_2010

Step 3.

Add variable locations to Path

1. ACIS

%A3DT%\NT_VC_DLL\code\bin

%A3DT%\NT_VC12_DLLD\code\bin

1. HOOPS

%HOOPS_INSTALL_DIR%\bin\nt_i386_vc12

%HOOPS_INSTALL_DIR%\bin\nt_i386_vc12d

Step 4.

1. Make a "RegBin" folder

2. Download additional files and paste those file into RegBin folder

3. 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