CV CADDS5

CADDS5 to Icam Post Interface Documentation

Overview

The CV CADDS 5 Interface Kit is designed to accommodate differences in syntax between ComputerVision's and ICAM's postprocessing languages. ComputerVision CADDS 5 APT commands in an ASCII CLDATA source ("aptsource") file are input to CAD-APT and CAM-POST. The syntax for these statements are found in the CADDS 5 manual. See CAM-POST chapter "Post-processor Vocabulary" for more information on CAM-POST supported syntax.

Only commands beginning with certain CADDS 5 major words are translated. Other postprocessor statements are passed through or thrown out. Not all translations shown in this document may be used with all ICAM posts. For example, a CYCLE statement may be selected in CADDS 5 and correctly reformatted by the interface, but the post-processor may not support that CYCLE type; a postprocessing error would result.

CAD-APT and CAM-POST can be automatically invoked using a script. The file will be posted regardless of the number of translations that cannot be made. The messages in the "*.lis" file are meant only to warn the user that there are items in the "aptsource" file that could not be interpreted. These items should be checked to ensure valid tape file output.