Saving As Model: Saving CATPart Product Description Property As V4 Model Comment (during a V5 to V4 Migration)

This task shows you when saving a V5 CATPart document as a model, the Product Description property of the part will be reported into the V4 model comment.

Product Description Property is available on any CATPart or CATProduct document and represents the only consisting correspondence to V4 Model/Detail comment functionality. It can be used to add text based information to pure 3D geometry data.

When migrating V4 models the Product Description property is the target for the conversion of V4 Model/Detail comments. The reverse translation when saving V5 Parts as models is now possible.
For more information about the V5 to V4 Migration, please refer to Saving a V5 Part as a V4 Model.
Open the document PART_COMMENT.CATPart.
 

  1. Select any component of the CATPart (or CATProduct) and Edit > Properties. Press the Product Tab and the comments are in the Description field:
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 CATPart into a .model, the comment(s) (plus dates) you have added to the document is/are kept in memory.
 

  1. To save this CATPart as a .model, select the File>Save As... command.

  1. In the Save As dialog box, select the location of the .model document to be saved and rename it (or not) as required.

  1. Click the Save as type: select model in the list displayed.

You obtain: MODEL_COMMENT.model. After a migration, the CATPart  turned into a .model. Note that the Properties dialog box is a little different but the access to this information is quite the same.

  1. To have access to the V4 Model comment, select the File > Information command. The Properties Model Information dialog box appears. You can also access V4 Model Comment by running the command: /comment, in the command line area of CATIA V4.
     

  2. You can also have access to the V4 Model comment by selecting the File>Comment command. The following dialog box appears:

  3. You can now compare, the original comments have been transferred from CATIA Version 5 to CATIA Version 4. Moreover, in the Comment dialog box you can add information or modify the content of the model's comment.

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