Enable Simulation Process and Data Management translators

The Simpgen translator is primarily used to create assembly-level simplification geometry. Prerequisites: The Simpgen translator requires Perl 5.0.3 or later. Licenses for Teamcenter and Teamcenter lifecycle visualization mockup (for the JtOptimize utility). An additional license is required to work with JtSimplification data in the viewer. For more information, contact your Siemens Digital Industries Software representative. OpenGL on the Teamcenter server. OpenGL is an open source environment for developing 2D and 3D graphics applications. For more information, see the OpenGL website. The Simpgen translator heavily leverages the graphics hardware. Siemens Digital Industries Software recommends that you install a high-end graphics card for better performance. When this translator is run on a Linux machine, a user with appropriate permissions must locally log on to the machine to initialize the graphics hardware and grant hardware permission (for example, using the xhost command) to other users who start the dispatcher remotely. For more information, see the Dispatcher_Root\Module\Translators\simpgen\Readme.txt file. The clients and Dispatcher Server should point to the common staging directory and both should have read and write permissions to that directory. Additionally, the common staging directory should have sufficient disk space to store temporary PLM/XML and JT files created during the translation process. The Dispatcher Server allows translations through remote method invocation (RMI) mode. RMI mode requires a common staging directory. When JtSimplification production is performed on an assembly under which a JtSimplification dataset already exists for one or more item revisions, the existing JtSimplification dataset is overwritten. To avoid accidental overwrite of the JtSimplification dataset, Siemens Digital Industries Software recommends that only a select few user accounts are given the authority to perform JtSimplification production. VIS_simpgen_admin_group site preference is used to give the user group the authority to run the Simpgen translator from the Teamcenter Translation menu. The default value for this site preference is SimpGenAdmin. You can specify the name of a Teamcenter group as a valid value. The SimProcess service supports remote launch for Simulation Process and Data Management. Prerequisites: The tc_launch_sim_process_ts_pl.bat file in the module/SimProcess directory points to the Perl location. Make sure that the Perl location is correct. The clients and Dispatcher Server should point to the common staging directory and both should have read/write permissions to that directory. Enable the translators You can use TEM or Deployment Center to install the translator or manually edit the translator.xml file to enable the translator. The following is an example of how to edit the translator.xml file to enable the translator. Procedure Open the translator.xml file from the Dispatcher_Root\Module\conf directory. Set the isactive attribute to true to activate this translator. Note By default, this attribute is set to false. Open the translator.bat (Windows) or translator.sh (Linux) file from the Dispatcher_Root\Module\Translators\translator_name directory and edit the CHANGE_ME tags. For more information about CHANGE_ME tags, see the .bat file for the translator. Run the translator in standalone mode from the command prompt to verify whether it is working properly. For more information about running the translator in standalone mode, from a command prompt, change to the Dispatcher\Translators\translator_name directory and run the appropriate command for your platform: Note For more information, see the Readme file in the Translators\translator_name directory. Windows: translator_name.bat -help Linux: translator_name.sh -help (Optional) To set up Dispatcher-client-proxy-user as the owner of the translated files, make the following change to the translator_name.bat (Windows) or translator_name.sh (Linux) file. NxTransDirect translator example: Copy "%UGII_BASE_DIR%\ugmanager\run_nxtrans.bat" -u=Dispatcher-client-proxy-user -p=password -changeOwnerToCad=false "-pim=yes" %* If you set up Dispatcher-client-proxy-user as the owner of the translated files, you must create a dispatcher client access rule. After installation, you must add a rule to the access rule tree permitting the translation service proxy user to update attributes of a DispatcherRequest object. If this access rule is not created correctly, the dispatcher client reports errors.