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General

The Flow-connected Vertex G4 background converter has long taken care of Step, Sat, DWG and DXF translations conversions in the background.

Starting with version 2019 (Flow 19.0 and G4 25.0), the workstation G4 made created a lightweight G4 model when checking it in to flow, where necessary, and then then the background converter made lightweight Step - and lightweight Sat models, if needed.

Starting with version 2020, all conversions can be left to the Flow server background converter.

Please note that if you do not have a license for making the file conversions, the following fields will be passive in both the Flow browser interface and the G4 user interface.

Assignment for background converter by model

In Flow, you can define in a the meta-data of a model, what kind of background convert you conversions you want to do for this model.

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• The command to make the conversion goes to the Flow as immediately when you you select the line.
  
• The selected conversions are always done again after the tmodel model is Checked in.
• When you delete unselect a selection at a file conversion, that file format is removed alongside the model filedeleted.

Find converted file formats

With the Search Card of Model, you can find converted files.

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You can find converted files, that are:

• Exists.
• Is missing
• Is missing although required by meta-data of model.

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