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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">Perhaps the easiest way to translate several CATIA V5 files at the same time is to use wildcards (only available on Windows). For example:</p><pre class="indent">&quot;C:\Program Files\NX5\catiav5\catiav5.exe&quot; C:\catiav5\*washer*.CATPart</pre><p class="para_topic">This command will find all CATIA V5 files that have the word &ldquo;washer&quot; in the name. In cases where the output directory is not specified, the translator will create output files (including an assembly and its components) NX in the current directory.</p>
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                  <p class="para_note_body">When you want to use wild cards, you cannot also use double quotes. The double quotes force the translator to take the file name literally without expanding the wildcards.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">Another way to specify several CATIA V5 files to translate is to use the defaults file. In the defaults file, you can add two keywords: PROCESS_PART_LIST and INDIVIDUAL_LIST. These two keywords represent a comma (or semicolon) separated list of parts to process and the corresponding NX file names to use for the individual parts created from the CATIA V5 files. For example, given a defaults file that contains:</p><pre class="indent">PROCESS_PART_LIST = file1.CATPart, file2.CATPart, file3.CATPart
INDIVIDUAL_LIST = _nx_part1.prt, _nx_part2.prt, _nx_part3.prt</pre><p class="para_topic">The translator converts the three CATIA V5 files and create three NX parts named <em>nx_part1.prt</em>, <em>nx_part2.prt</em>, and <em>nx_part3.prt</em>. &nbsp;There must be a one-for-one correspondence in the names listed in the PROCESS_PART_LIST and INDIVIDUAL_LIST lines of the defaults file.
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