Trimble Connect Object Manager User Guide

Conversion Rules

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What is a conversion rule?

By conversion, we mean to translate the information from one structure to another one. The conversion rule defines that the source information for a given category should become the target features of a given category.

Conversion rules can be simple, but they can also be complex, especially when the original format is complex, using many attributes.

When importing to the Model, the information first is added to format-near features. The conversion rule set is used to translate the content of the file (now as format-near features) to the final target Models feature types.

Click Conversion Rules to start the Conversion Rule Editor in order to manage rule sets and create new conversion rules.

Import Conversion rules guide - INPROGRESS

You will access the same Conversion Rule Editor from the Output tab.

Conversion rules guide - INPROGRESS

Main version

The "Main version" of a feature catalogue is the first part of it's version number. So the main version of FC 2.03 is 2.

Conversion rule

Defines what resulting feature an item in the source file/model shall become in the destination model/file.

For import: Conversion rules from source file to destination Model (current model).

For export: Conversion rules from source model (current model) to destination file.

Source format

For import: The file type to import with this conversion rule.

For export: Object Manager model

Source Feature Catalog

Import

When importing, the file is read and first converted to an intermediate Object Manager model format, with a feature catalog that is closely related to the original source feature catalog. Then it is converted again from this Object Manager model format to the format of the destination the model. This setting specifies for which feature catalog versions this conversion rule is valid to convert from, if the source format is Quadri model.

Export

When exporting, the source feature catalog specifies for which feature catalog versions of the model this conversion rule is valid to convert from.

Source compatibility

You need to specify for which feature catalogue versions this conversion rule is valid. You can set the compatibility setting to:

Forward: Match the "Source Feature Catalogue" version and any later versions with the same main version.
Backward: Match the "Source Feature Catalogue" version and any previous versions with the same main version.
Both: Match any feature catalogue version with the same main version as the "Source Feature Catalogue".
Exact: Only match the exact same feature catalogue version as the "Source Feature Catalogue" .

Tip: For SOSI and QuadriG1 rules, the compatibility should be set to "Exact".

Destination format

For import: Object Manager model

For export: The format to export to

Destination feature catalog

For import: Which feature catalogue versions this conversion rule is valid for.

For export: If "Destination Format" is object manager, then this sets which feature catalogue versions this conversion rule is valid for.

Destination compatibility

Same logic as under Source compatibility.

Conversion rule set

A conversion file can have a set of conversion rules, called a "Conversion rule set".

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