In the current year we took 30 licenses of Acrobat 9 PRO extended as viewer for CATIA native files. Initially we made some benchmarks on the 9.0 and we found positive results for CATIA4 3D and CATIA5 3D&2D. Unfortunately Acrobat is not working for CATIA4 2D. We decided to workaround the problem planning a massive conversion from V4 to V5.
After the acquisition we migrated as CAD from release 17 to 19. After the necessary updates (we have a 2 year maintenace: we applied the update 200810, the 9.1.1, 9.1.2 and 9.1.3) now we can still open the 3D (CATIA 4 & 5), but the CATDrawings are no more visible.
Has anyone information about this problem? Is this a bug and a fix is planned?
Thanks in advance
Catia 2D drawings can be converted usung 3D Reviewer. This information is also included in the help site:
Adobe 3D Reviewer can read native 2D CAD files. The features and behaviors for 2D files varies from the functions for 3D files.
All 2D CAD file drawings open as separate documents, regardless of how you open them. A 2D file can contain several pages, each of which appears on a separate tab in the document pane. The structure of the 2D file appears in the Model Tree.
You can’t save 2D files as session files (PRW), but you can export them as PDF or PostScript® files. Within Adobe 3D Reviewer, you can apply default views, select markups, show and hide certain entities, apply colors, and take raster snapshots.
I hope this helps.
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