Automatic Transfer of a Version 4 Model Comment into a Version 5 CATProduct or CATPart

This task shows you how the transfer of CATIA Version 4 model comment into CATIA Version 5 operates automatically during a V4 to V5 Migration and how you can have access to it in CATIA Version 5.

The automatic transfer of a V4 Model Comment into CATIA V5 occurs when:

Opening or migrating a Model into CATIA V5
Copying/Pasting a Model Comment into CATPart Properties
For more information about Manipulating V4 Models in V5 and especially V4 Model comment, refer to Having Access to V4 Model Comment.
 

Opening / migrating a Model into CATIA V5
Open the document: MODEL_COMMENT.model in CATIA Version 5.
The maximum length of a V4 comment is 70 characters per line. If you exceed this number, a new line -with date- is created. When you save a .model in CATIA V4, the comments (plus dates) you have added to the document is/are kept in memory.

  1. To have access to the V4 Model comment, select any component in the .model and go to Edit -> Properties command. The Properties dialog box appears. The V4 comments and their date of creation are available in the Comment tab:

  2. Open the document PART_COMMENT.CATPart.
    After a migration, the .model turned into a CATPart. The comment is saved on the highest level of a document: on a CATProduct or a CATPart, but not on a CATDrawing. Note that the Properties dialog box is a little different but the access to this information is quite the same, select any component of the CATPart (or CATProduct) and go to Edit > Properties. Press the Product Tab and the comments are in the Description field:

    You can now compare, the original comments have been transferred from CATIA Version 4 to CATIA Version 5. Moreover, in the Properties dialog box, in the Description field you can add information or modify the content of a CATPart / CATProduct's comment, then click on OK.  When closing the CATPart or CATProduct, this message appears :

    The new comment can be saved in the CATPart's properties when you close and save the document.

 

 

Copying / Pasting a V4 Model into a CATPart

  1. To have access to the V4 Model's comment, select any component in the .model and the Edit > Properties command. The Properties dialog box appears. The V4 comments and their date of creation are available in the Comment tab:

  2. Copy / Paste As Result or As Spec the Model into a CATPart.

  3. To read the Model's Comment, select Part1 of the CATPart and the contextual command Edit > Properties. Press the Product Tab and the comments are in the Description field:

    During the copy / paste operation, the Model's Comment has been transferred into the CATPart.

    The Comment is extracted from the Model and copied into the CATPart Description. If the target CATPart already contains a Description, the Model's Comment is concatenated, added to this description.

    In the Properties dialog box, in the Description field you can add information or modify the content of a CATPart / CATProduct's comment, then click on OK.  When closing the CATPart or CATProduct, this message appears:
    The new comment can be saved in the CATPart's properties when you close and save the document.