Exporting Content as CATIA V5 Files

You can export content as CATIA V5 files that can be opened in a CATIA V5 CAD.

You can export the following content:

  • 3DEXPERIENCE products and parts. You cannot export 3DEXPERIENCE representations.
  • 3DEXPERIENCE products, parts, and drawings with CATIA V5 master, including representations
  • Mixed structures with a 3DEXPERIENCE content as root and 3DEXPERIENCE content with CATIA V5 master as children

Content exported as CATIA V5 files cannot be imported again to 3DEXPERIENCE.

Before you begin:
  • You must have:
    • Installed IEC (Integration Exchange Framework client) and XCADDesignConnectors components, and have the following role: UE5 - Collaborative Designer with CATIA V5.
    • Installed CATIA V5 on your machine. The content is exported according to the CATIA V5 level installed on your machine.
    • Activated and properly configured CATIA V5 PowerBy 3DEXPERIENCE integration mode provided by Design with CATIA V5. For more information, see Design with CATIA V5 User's Guide: Configuring and Activating the CATIA V5 PowerBy 3DEXPERIENCE Mode.
  • Close any CATIA V5 session that is active on your machine.
  • Stop any V5 batch that is running on your machine.

Environment: On premises only

  1. Select one or more objects.

    Selecting the root object exports the whole structure. Selecting a child object exports the corresponding branch (the object and all its children in context of the root).

    Notes:
    • If you performed any authoring operation (insert, remove or modify) on a structure with 3DEXPERIENCE content with CATIA V5 master as root, you must export the whole structure.
    • You cannot export root objects with embedded components.
    • The required objects that are not part of the structure are automatically added by completion to the export scope (for example, a CATAnalysis, CATMaterial or design tables pointing to an object that is part of the export scope).
    • Objects that are filtered out are not exported.

  2. From the Tools section of the action bar, click Export V5 .
    The Export V5 dialog box appears.
  3. Enter the path to the target directory.

    Note:
    • If you select multiple roots, they are exported to the same directory.
    • The name of the generated CATIA V5 files corresponds to Title attribute of the objects. The Title attribute must meet the requirements for Version 5 documents. For more information, see File Coexistence and Migration User's Guide: File-based Design Import: About Filenames.

      Objects that are added by completion to the export scope are not renamed according to their Title attribute. They are named according to their original filename (when they were saved in 3DEXPERIENCE).

      If several objects in the scope of the download result in the same filename, the _UUID suffix is added to the filename of these files.

  4. If you do not want to overwrite CATIA V5 files that already exist in the target directory with a same filename, select the Keep a copy of the existing file in case of conflict in the disk option.

    If this option is selected, the _UUID suffix is added to the filename of the generated CATIA V5 file, and links between objects are updated to take the renaming into account. If this option is cleared, generated CATIA V5 files overwrite the existing files that have the same filename in the target directory.

The objects are exported as CATIA V5 files in the target directory, alongside a report of the export operation. Additional content required by the Design with CATIA V5 connector and added by completion is downloaded as well.

Exporting content as CATIA V5 files is an asynchronous process. You can continue to work with the exported objects in 3DEXPERIENCE immediately after you launched the export.