Migrating V4 data into V5 User Defined mode

This task shows you how to migrate V4 data into V5 in a User Defined mode, that is to say how to migrate the entire V4 models data into V5 formats data (in the V4/V5 batch). The User Defined mode allows you to choose some elements belonging to a single V4 model and migrate only them with the same rules as for complete mode regarding the Structuration option. With the User Defined mode, you can use the V4 >V5 batch Structuration capability but only on a part of a V4 model.

The User Defined mode will take the same options as the Complete mode. A Structuration (for instance by solid) is defined because of the options chosen by the end user are exactly the same as for the Complete mode. A format (as specs or as result) must also be defined.
  The migration can be launched using two different methods:
 
  • via the Edit menu
  • via the Send to V4ToV5Migration Migration command.
  1. Open a CATIAV4 model in CATIA V5.

  1. Click the geometrical representation and select the first element to migrate. For example, in this case: *SOL3.
  2. Select Send to V4ToV5Migration to migrate the first element.

A window with migration options is displayed.

The design of this interface is similar to the interface used in the CATUTIL process, when launching the classical batch mode. The model path is automatically set, the User Defined option is set (note , there is a limitation: no complete mode is available here. If selected, only a re-usable XML file is created) and some characteristics of the selected element appear. These characteristics are:

  • the name of the element (using its V4 identifier)

  • the format chosen for migration (As Spec or As Result) which can be modified for any element

  • the layer in which the element is set

  • the type of the element

  • the color of the element (with its V4 code value)

  • the workspace of the element

  • a number representing the order of selection

  • Check/Migrate options and some fields for output documents are available.

  1. You can select and de-select (by using Delete button) the elements as often as needed. The rules are the following:

  • if an element is selected and, after that, an element including it is selected, the first one is replaced by the second one.

  • If the second one is de-selected, the first one will be back. For example: if *SOL1 belongs to *SET1 and if both are selected (*SOL1 first), only *SET1 is taken into account. If it is de-selected, *SOL1 replaces it. The following message appears:

  • Similarly, if an element included in another one which is already selected is chosen, it will not be taken into account and a window appears with a warning message:

  1. When the selection is confirmed, you can either Run the batch to make its conversion or Save the selection into a XML file. The selection cannot be modified after that.

  2. With the Back and Next buttons, the user can customize the migration, like in Complete mode (Structuration elements, SPACE and DRAW, etc). For more information about these options, please refer to Migrating from V4 To V5 in Batch Mode.

Selection from the specification tree

  1. Select Send to V4ToV5Migration.

  1. Select Send to V4 To V5 Migration:

Selection from the Edit menu

  1. Select the appropriate element the user wants to add as below:
  2. Select Send to V4 To V5 Migration:

Saving Information in a XML file

  1. After selecting the element, save it in an XML file using the Save button.

This allows to postpone the migration if needed. The XML file can be loaded whenever required and the migration can be launched with the same information.

In User Defined mode, it is not possible to read an XML File. If you try to read a User defined XML, a warning is displayed. In the CATUTIL, you can read XML file:

Reading Information from a XML file (via the Read input from parameter file)

  1. Only XML complete mode case be read. A File Selection window appears, allowing to open the XML file.

Reading Information from a XML file (via the Associate a parameter file command)

  1. Right-click PLMV4ToV5Migration and select Associate a parameter file. With this functionality, you can open a defined mode XML or a complete mode XML (if an XML file has been saved). Then, a File Selection window appears, allowing you to launch the migration.

  1. The data conversion can be launched either from the windows or from CATUTIL using the Associate parameter file capability (if a XML file has been saved).

 

Limitations
 

  • The User Defined mode is available only with a single model. If some elements are selected in a Detail, the entire Detail is migrated. If a Ditto is selected, the corresponding Detail will be migrated too. The user can only select one or several elements in the *MASTER except DETAIL elements or one element in a DETAIL (which is equivalent to select the DETAIL itself), and except any other workspace element.
    A warning is displayed at the Selection step if an inappropriate element is selected.  

  • About documents' naming: some documents may seem to be badly numbered. If a single solid, for instance *SOL3, is selected in a Solid Structuration option, its name suffix may be different from xSol3_1. The name chosen for the document corresponds to the name that would exist in the Complete mode.
    It can happen that a highest level document contains only one sub-document especially when the chosen Structuration is by Ditto or by Set / Ditto. In that case, there is no warning.

  • For non-exploded Structuration modes (Ditto, Set / Ditto, Solid / Ditto and Solid / Set / Ditto), if several Dittos pointing the same Detail (belonging to the *MASTER) are selected, their chosen formats should be the same. Indeed, the format of the Ditto is reported on its pointed Detail and it cannot be different from its other instances.
    The migration is made but the format used for the pointed Detail may be chosen at random.

  • With the User Defined mode, the migration of 3D elements can only be done with the Space option, and the migration of 2D Details can be done with the Draw option only.