What Is An Environment?

What is an Environment?

Note that the default installation path can be:

C:\Program Files\Dassault Systemes\B18 (Windows XP Pro)
C:\Program Files\Dassault Systemes\B18 (64-bit code on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Dassault Systemes\B18 (32-bit code on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition)

Commands used for illustration purposes are for 32-bit Windows XP Pro.

All Version 5 product lines share the same environment management mechanism.

For example, on Windows, the CATDocView environment variable is set by default, for 32-bit Windows XP Pro, to:

C:\Program Files\Dassault Systemes\B18doc

meaning that the online documentation files are installed in the folder C:\Program Files\Dassault Systemes\B18doc. When you want to access the online documentation, the software will look for the files in this location.

The term environment also includes its graphical representation, in other words how it is represented to the user on the user's desktop.

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\DassaultSystemes\CATEnv

and the environment file name is:
CATIA.V5R18.B18.txt

Note: the environment file name does not necessarily contain a "." (dot).

What are Global and User Environments?

Global environments can only be created, edited or deleted by a Windows administrator, or the root userid on UNIX.

A user environment is visible to and can be used and manipulated (customized or deleted) only by the user who created it.

How are Environments Managed?

• by the installation procedure, which creates a default global environment;
  the default environments created at installation on each platform are described in About the Environment Created on Windows and About the Environment Created on UNIX respectively.
• using the catiaenv command (Windows) or CATIAENV command (UNIX) to run the Environment Editor, a GUI-based tool which creates, edits, copies and deletes environments
• using the setcatenv command: this command creates and edits user and global environments (if you are administrator or root, you can edit the default global environment)
• using the delcatenv command: this command deletes environments
• using the lscatenv command (to list the names of environments)
• using the chcatenv command (to edit one or more environment variables)
• using the readcatenv command (to read the variables of an environment).

What Does Customizing an Environment Mean?

For example, you may install the online documentation at a location different from the default location. If this is the case, you need to specify where the documentation files are located by modifying the value for the CATDocView variable. This is an example of what we mean by customizing your runtime environment.

• create new environments
• edit existing environments
• copy existing environments
• delete environments

but you cannot rename existing variables.

Locales Whose Use with Version 5 has been Validated

The language locales whose use with Version 5 has been validated are listed in your Infrastructure Users Guide, sections "Starting a Session in a Language Other than English on Windows" and "Starting a Session in a Language Other than English on UNIX".

List of Official Runtime Variables

You can deactivate the creation of error.log, SessionInfo and AbendTrace files by setting CATErrorLog to the special value OFF (UPPERCASE only) like this:
CATErrorLog=OFF