Overview

V4 Integration in a Nutshell

V4 Integration is a product which includes two-way interoperability between CATIA Version 5 and CATIA Version 4 data.

It allows you to use Version 5 new applications and to get advantage of CATIA Version 4 legacy. As an open solution, it includes interfaces with the most commonly used data exchange industry standards.

This means that:

• V4 designs can be accessed, exchanged and processed thus ensuring continuity and protecting V4 customer investment while taking advantage of Version 5's full functionalities. Using an integration tool called the CATIA Site Navigator in CATIA Version 5, CATIA Version 4 data can be read. If actual editing is required inside CATIA Version 5 application workbenches, this data can also be converted into V5 format.

• CATIA Version 5 data can be loaded and processed in a CATIA Version 4 session enabling V5 data to benefit from the breadth of the CATIA Solutions Version 4 portfolio.

You will learn how to use V4/V5 Interoperability:

• What are the main functionalities

• What is the most appropriate methodology for your industrial needs: distinction between Interoperability and Translation?

• What are the main equivalences between CATIA Version 4 and Version 5 from a software point of view?

Before Reading this Guide

Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 5 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 5 products. It also describes the general layout of V5 and the interoperability between workbenches.

Getting the Most out of this Guide

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest you start reading and performing the step-by-step tutorial Getting Started. This tutorial will show you how to manipulate a V4 Model in CATIA V5.

Once you have finished, you should move on to the next sections dealing with the handling of CATIA V4 data, then the different types of migration (Copy / Paste As Spec or As Result, Migration Batch) into CATIA V5. This guide also presents other interoperability capabilities allowing you to convert a CATProduct / CATPart into a .model or a .session. You can also take a look at the sections describing the V4 Integration Workbench at the end of the guide.

Accessing Sample Documents

To perform the scenarios, you will be using sample documents contained in the online/intug/samples folder.

When samples belong to capabilities common to different products, those samples will be found in the online/cfyug/samples folder.

For more information about this, refer to Accessing Sample Documents in the Infrastructure User's Guide.

Conventions Used in this Guide

To learn more about the conventions used in this guide, refer to the Conventions section.