Managing AUXVIEW2 Defaults for Migration

When migrating AUXVIEW2 views from V4 to V6, there are several things you need to do to ensure that your migration results will be equivalent to your AUXVIEW2 defaults.

What you need to do depends on whether you want to use generative view styles or settings (defined via Tools > Options... ). You can:

Either customize V6 generative view styles XML files: these make it possible to customize the appearance and behavior of a V6 generative view via a set of pre-defined parameters and options, and customize V4 to V6 DRAW settings via Tools > Options... > Compatibility.
Or customize V6 Drafting settings via Tools > Options... > Mechanical > Drafting.

Generative view styles offer more customization possibilities than settings.

This topic explains the methodology for managing AUXVIEW2 defaults for V4 to V6 migration.

This task shows you how to:

Preparing for AUXVIEW2 Migration with Generative View Styles
Preparing for AUXVIEW2 Migration with Settings

Preparing for AUXVIEW2 Migration with Generative View Styles

The procedure below describes what you need to do before migrating AUXVIEW2 views from V4 to V6 if you use generative view styles.

Start a V6 session.

Note: step 2 must be performed with a session running in administrator mode, but the following steps can be performed with a session running in normal mode.
Customize the V6 generative view styles XML file that you want to use when migrating AUXVIEW2 views from V4 to V6. For more information on customizing generative view styles, refer to Generative Drafting User's Guide: Administration Tasks.
For detailed information regarding the parameters that you need to modify in the generative view styles XML files, refer to DefaultAUX2V4ToV5withGVS.pdf.This document is available on the PDF CD-ROM shipped with CATIA documentation, in the catpdfwhitepaper folder.
Go to Tools > Options... > Mechanical > Drafting > Administration tab and make sure that the Prevent generative view style creation setting is not selected.
Go to Tools > Options... > General > Compatibility > V4/V6 DRAW tab, and, from the Default generative view style list, select the XML file that you just customized to specify that this generative view style should be used when migrating AUXVIEW2 views from V4 to V6.

Preparing for AUXVIEW2 Migration with Settings

The procedure below describes what you need to do before migrating AUXVIEW2 views from V4 to V6 if you use settings.

Start a V6 session (you do not necessarily need to be running the session in administrator mode).
Go to Tools > Options... > Mechanical > Drafting and on the various tabs, define the settings that you want to be applied when migrating AUXVIEW2 views from V4 to V6.
For detailed information regarding the V6 Drafting settings that you need to modify via Tools > Options... > Mechanical > Drafting, refer to DefaultAUX2V4ToV5withOptions.pdf. This document is available on the PDF CD-ROM shipped with CATIA documentation, in the catpdfwhitepaper folder.