.. role:: blue
   :class: blue

Product Attributes
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.. _Product_attributes_:

.. kernel version: 118061

The product data transferred through the converter includes:

- Information about a component: type (part or assembly unit), identifier, name, and comment.
- Visual properties, material properties, and elementary attributes.
- Information about an author and an organization.

This information is transferred by means of :blue:`MbProductInfo` and :blue:`MbPersonOrganizationInfo` attributes and any elementary attributes (:blue:`MbElementaryAttribute`) respectively.


**MbProductInfo Component Information**

The :blue:`MbProductInfo` class must be assigned to a :blue:`MbItem` model element that should be marked as a component, or to a model element of type :blue:`MbInstance` when the name, designation, or comment of the instance differs from the corresponding data of the used component. 

The main constructor of the :blue:`MbProductInfo` class has the following signature: 

.. code-block:: cpp

   MbProcuctInfo( const c3d::string_t & initId,
                  const c3d::string_t & initName,
                  const c3d::string_t & initDesc,
                        bool            isAssm );

The **initId** argument is used to pass the component identifier (designation), **initName** is the component name, **initDesc** is the comment, and **isAssm** is a flag indicating whether the component is an assembly unit. 

The main way to obtain string data about a product is to call the method 

.. code-block:: cpp

   void GetData( c3d::string_t & oId,
                 c3d::string_t & oName,
                 c3d::string_t & oDesc ) const;

The input parameters **oId**, **oName**, and **oDesc** are used to return the identifier, the name, and the comment respectively. 

To obtain information on whether a component is an assembly unit, use the method 

.. code-block:: cpp

   bool IsAssembly() const;

The :blue:`MbProductInfo` class also contains methods that take strings of type *std::string*. 
These methods perform conversions using the :blue:`c3d::ToSTDstring`\() and :blue:`c3d::ToC3Dstring`\() functions. 

The :blue:`MbProductInfo` class contains the following constructor: 

.. code-block:: cpp

   MbProductInfo(       bool          isAssm,
                  const std::string & initId,
                  const std::string & initName,
                  const std::string & initDesc );

Information about a product is obtained using the method 

.. code-block:: cpp

   void GetDataStd( std::string & oId,
                    std::string & oName,
                    std::string & oDesc ) const.