Components

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	Each software component maps to a top level directory in the ACIS installed directory tree. The component directories in your installed directory tree will be a subset of all available component directories, based on your platform and which product(s) you purchased.
	Component directories contain one or more subdirectories in which the component's files are located (no code is in the top level component directory). Each of these subdirectories generally corresponds to an object library (refer to the 3D ACIS Application Development Manual for information on object libraries). Most component directories also include subdirectories containing Scheme extensions (subdirectory name *_scm).
	Table 4-1 lists all the components, alphabetically by their directory names, available for the ACIS product line. For more information about a component, refer to the corresponding Component Manual.
	Table 4-1. Software Components

Directory	Component Name (Abbreviation)	Description/Comments
abl	Advanced Blending (ABL)	Blending beyond standard blending (BLND)
adm	ACIS Deformable Modeling (ADM)	Free-form 3D sculpting operations on a curve or surface
admgi	ADM Graphic Interaction (ADMGI)	Bridge between ADM and GI for drawing; illustrates how to use GI rendering with ADM
phlv5	Precise Hidden Line Removal V5 (PHLV5)	Calculates hidden line data and draws hidden line representations of the model
apfill	PowerFill (PFILL)	Covers circuits in solid or wire bodies using advanced surface deformation technology
amfc	ACIS MFC (AMFC)	Support for Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) based applications (NT platforms)
base	Base (BASE)	Provides some very low-level common functionality that is used by all ACIS components, including memory management, error handling, some basic data types, etc.
blnd	Blending (BLND)	Standard blending operations
bool	Boolean (BOOL)	Unite, intersect, and subtract operations
br	Basic Rendering (BR)	Rendering supplied with ACIS
catia	CATIA Translator (CATIA)	Read CATIA model files and CATIA Export files and translate the geometry to ACIS
clr	Clearance (CLR)	Determine minimum distance between bodies or faces
covr	Covering (COVR)	Cover wires and sheets (all boundaries specified)
cstr	Constructors (CSTR)	Basic topology construction; wireframe construction and editing; analysis (area, length, mass properties)
ct	Cellular Topology (CT)	Divide larger regions up into smaller subregions or cells
ds	Standalone Deformable Modeling (SDM)	Standalone component used by ADM for sculpting operations
eulr	Euler Operations (EULR)	Expand, flatten, separate, and combine lumps
examples	ExamplesXMP	Contains Scheme extensions that illustrate API usage
fct	Faceter (FCT)	Generate faceted (polygonal) representation
ga	Generic Attributes (GA)	Attributes that allow applications to exchange data
gi	Graphic Interaction (GI)	Commonly needed graphic display functionality
gl	OpenGL (GL)	Rendering for Windows NT platforms using OpenGL
heal	Healing (HEAL)	Fix modelsusually imported from other modeling systems into ACISin which tolerance problems affect how ACIS interprets the model
iges	IGES Translator (IGES)	Bidirectional transfer of data between IGES format and ACIS format
igl	Interactive OpenGL (IGL)	Interactive viewing interface to the ACIS space warping functionality using OpenGL on NT platforms; intended for NTbased testing and demonstration
ihl	Interactive Hidden Line (IHL)	Creates views of ACIS model objects with hidden lines removed
intr	Intersectors (INTR)	Curve/curve, curve/surface, surface/surface intersectors; ray testing; silhouettes; parameter lines; point classification; body checking; curve and surface extension
kern	Kernel (KERN)	Spline interface; basic entity and attribute support; topology and geometry ENTITY classes; construction geometry classes; math classes; save and restore support; history and roll support
law	Laws (LAWS)	Provides symbolic representations of equations to solve complex problems
lop	Local Ops (LOP)	Locally manipulating models
lopt	Local Op Tools (LOPT)	Provides tools used in local operations
ofst	Offsetting (OFST)	Wire and face offsetting
oper	Operators (OPER)	Spline conversion
part	Part Management (PART)	Support for grouping entities
phl	Precise Hidden Line (PHL)	Hidden line removal
pid	Persistent ID (PID)	Attach identifiers that persist across saves
proe	Pro/E Translator (Pro/E)	Read Pro/Engineer part files and translate them into ACIS
rbase	Rendering Base (RBASE)	Interface common to all renderers
rbi	Repair Body Intersections (RBI)	Repairing selfintersections in a body
rem	Remove Faces (REM)	Removing unnecessary faces, such as after a local operation
sbool	Selective Booleans (SBOOL)	Selective Boolean operations (unite, intersect, subtract) using graph theory
scm	Scheme Support (SCM)	Scheme Interpreter; basic Scheme extensions; Scheme AIDE interface to rendering, part management, etc.
shl	Shelling (SHL)	Create shelled (hollow) bodies
skin	Advanced Surfacing (AS)	Various techniques (including skinning and lofting) for fitting a surface through a set of curves
step	STEP Translator (STEP)	Bidirectional transfer of data between STEP format and ACIS format
stitch	Stitch (STITCH)	Stitches a list of faces and bodies into a single body
swp	Sweeping (SWP)	Sweep a profile along a path
trans	Translator Utility (TRANS)	Utilities for translators
vda	VDA-FS Translator (VDA-FS)	Bidirectional transfer of data between VDA-FS format and ACIS format
vm	VisMan (VM)	Visual display and manipulation of models, using an object architecture that supports interfaces, coclasses, and class factories (cannot be used with GI)
warp	Space Warping (WARP)	Uses the ACIS law functionality to warp (twist, bend) entities based on law definitions
xgeom	Translation Geometry (XGEOM)	Geometry translation for translators

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