Administering Standards

  This section documents the administration of standards in the Aerospace SheetMetal Design workbench.  It deals with the following subjects:

For more general information on customizing and administering standards, refer to the Customizing Standards chapter in the Infrastructure User's Guide.

 

Location of the Standard File

The location of the standard file is defined by two environment variables which can be set during installation or modified afterwards:

Variable name

Description
CATCollectionStandard Indicates the name and path of the sub-directory (or sub-directories) containing the standards customized by the administrator. This means that you should save your customized standards in these sub-directories
CATDefaultCollectionStandard Indicates the name and path of the sub-directory (or sub-directories) containing the default standards provided by Dassault Systemes. This variable is set by default to installation_folder\resources\standard during the installation procedure.

Setting the location of the standard file
  There are two possibilities:
  • If you want to place a customized standard file in a custom directory, named mydirectory for example, you need to proceed as follows:
 

  1. Create a directory named as you like (mydirectory, for example).

  2. Create a sub-directory under this directory, which needs to be named standard.

  3. Place the XML files containing your customized generative view styles in mydirectory\standard. 

  • If you have not yet customized your XML standard file, then proceed as follows:

  1. Create a directory named as you like (mydirectory, for example).

  2. Create a sub-directory under this directory, which needs to be named standard.

  3. Set the CATCollectionStandard variable to mydirectory. After you have customized the XML standard file, the standard editor will then save it in mydirectory\standard.
  • If the CATDefaultCollectionStandard and the CATCollectionStandard variables both contain an identically-named standard file, it is always the style found in  CATCollectionStandard  which will be used. 
  • If two directories referenced by the CATCollectionStandard and/or CATDefaultCollectionStandard variables contain identically-named standard files, it is always the file in the directory listed first which will be used.

 

Customizing and Defining Standards

To edit and save the standard file in Tools -> Standards, you must be running the V5 session in administrator mode (-admin). 

The recommended method for customizing the standard file is the following:

  1. You need to work in administrator mode. To do this, proceed as follows: 

    1. Set up the CATReferenceSettingPath variable.

    2. Start a V5 session using the -admin option. 

    For more information, refer to the Managing Environments chapter in the Infrastructure Installation Guide.

  2. Set up the CATCollectionStandard environment variable as explained above, in order for the AerospaceSheetMetalDesign.xml file to be taken into account.

    If none of the conditions are respected, a warning message will appear to let you know that you will neither be able to modify nor save the XML files.

  3. Modify the standards as appropriate.

  4. Use the Save As or the OK button to store your modifications.

  5. To exit, use the Cancel button.

Once the standard file has been customized and saved, it can be used in a V5 session in normal mode.