catalog migration

[JohnHolder]

Ok, another release, and another headache.

I really really do not want to rebuild the 3 catalogs from scratch yet again.

how do you migrate custom blocks from 2013 to 2014.  i have specified the location to them during 'migration' and of course nothing works.

Most of it is parametric modeling - sch 40 sch 80 and HDPE standard, and HDPE metric.

but too many parts are missing and I had to model them myself.

[JohnHolder]

So, loading up 2013 spec editor and exporting to excel, then building a catalog in 2014 seemed to work ok.

except for alot of the images are missing in the tool pallet, but that is not a big issue.

annoying that the migration fuction fails..

[dave.wolfe · Accepted solution]

For the parts that I created in 2013, images/source files were located in C:\AutoCAD Plant 3D 2013 Content\CatalogSupportFolders

Under there should be a folder per catalog that has block based parts.

I was able to copy that catalog folder to the 2014 and all of the source pathing issues were resolved.

For example, "C:\AutoCAD Plant 3D 2013 Content\CatalogSupportFolders\ECAD Houston" got copied to:

"C:\AutoCAD Plant 3D 2014 Content\CatalogSupportFolders\ECAD Houston"

I don't know why the migrate feature doesn't include this, but I'm submitting a bug ticket for it.

[JohnHolder]

Some catalogs are in the

C:\AutoCAD Plant 3D 2014 Content\CatalogSupportFolders\

others are inside

C:\AutoCAD Plant 3D 2013 Content\CPak Common

that may have been part of the problem?

right now the catalogs work, but are just missing images on the tool pallet.  I renamed the catalogs

when I rebuilt them, just in case I tried the migration again.  Which I will and I will attempt to copy over the supporting

documents

Edit

Thank you again Dave.  That was the issue, the supports folder was not in the right place, I should have looked around more to find it!  But migration worked properly.

[JohnHolder]

Partial success.  Standard catalogs, both sch 40 and hdpe work fine!

Metric catalogs, both PVCu and HDPE do not - lots of parts missing..

working on that now.