How to use Persistent Name

You can get Persistent Name on several entities using

// Get Dtk_InfoPtr class 
Dtk_InfoPtr infos = inObject->GetInfos();
// Get Persistent Name 
Dtk_string name = infos->GetPersistentName();

Here are the supported Persistent Name following different readers

PersistentID	Prototype	Body (on Dtk_NodePtr)	Body (on Dtk_BodyPtr)	Face	Edge (Shared)	Edge (Free)	WireFrame	PMI / FDT
3D Experience / Catia V6
Catia V5
Creo Parametric
Inventor
NX Unigraphics
QIF
Solid Edge
SolidWorks
STEP

The intention of persistent name is to give the same identifier for a same prototype, face or edge between

• different versions of a file if the geometry is not affected by the change
• different versions of a Datakit API on a same file (except if we solve an issue)
• prototypes representing the same file

PesistentName are computed using information in binary file for CatiaV5, CatiaV6, Solidworks, SolidEdge, NX and Creo readers