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Select Tools > Options.
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In the General category, select the General
tab, clear the Load referenced documents check box, then click
OK.
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Close then reopen the same document.
The part is no longer loaded (indicated by a
special symbol in the specification tree): |
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Select
File > Desk. The Desk window appears (the document stays
open):
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In the
Desk window, right-click the document Part1.CATPart, then
select Load or click Load
in the Desk toolbar.
The specification tree is updated as a result,
i.e. the symbol representing the document will change to that of a
loaded document: the part is now loaded.
Note that you can right-click then select Open or click
Open
in the Desk toolbar whenever you want to open a
document, loaded or not. |
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If you want to see the properties of any loaded or
unloaded document, right-click the document then select Properties.
The Document Properties dialog box below
appears: |
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Refer to
Displaying Document Properties for detailed information on the
Document tab. |
You can also click the
Standards tab to display the standards which may have
been defined for your document.
The Standards tab is used mainly to display drafting and
generative standards (when working with .CATDrawing documents) but
it can also be used to display standards defined for general
parameters such as graphic properties or layers and filters.
Refer to Displaying
Document Properties for detailed information on the
Standards tab. |
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If you want to open a loaded or unloaded document,
right-click it then select Open. This opens the document in a
new window.
As far as temporary documents are concerned, they
cannot be opened in a new window. For instance, you cannot open in
a new CATIA V5 window a Product Root Class created in ENOVIA V5. |
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You can also
unload loaded documents. Unloading a document means that this document is
not stored in memory anymore.
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To move
one or several documents, you can either:
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select the desired documents from the Desk then
click Move
.
A warning window informs you that only the
persistent file names will be moved. This means that the selected
documents will be physically moved to the location of your choice
but the links to these documents will not be relocated and thus,
may no longer work.
Click OK to
close the warning window then use the dialog box that opens to
navigate to the target directory:
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After clicking OK
to close the dialog box, a pop-up message prompts you to validate
the new location and warns you that some links might be broken.
Bear in mind that the Move command neither check nor
relocate links between documents, you have to do it manually
using Edit > Links.
Note: the content of the moved documents
remains unchanged.
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or click directly Move
to browse your file tree and select the documents to be moved.
A warning window informs you that only the
persistent file name will be moved. This means that the selected
documents will be physically moved to the location of your choice
but the links to these documents will not be relocated and thus
may no longer work.
Click OK to
close the warning window then use the File Selection
dialog box that opens to access the directory from which the
documents will be moved:
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Select the desired documents then click Open
to access the FILE RECEPTION BOX which lets you
navigate to the target directory:
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After clicking OK
to close the dialog box, a pop-up message prompts you to validate
the new location and warns you that some links might be broken.
Bear in mind that the Move command neither check nor
relocate links between documents, you have to do it manually
using Edit > Links.
Note: the content of the moved documents
remains unchanged.
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To
rename a document, select the document to be renamed then click
Rename
or click directly Rename
then use the File Selection dialog box to navigate to the file
to be renamed.
In both cases, a warning window informs you that
only the persistent file name will be modified, the name of the
loaded document will not be impacted. This means that the new
document name will appear in your Explorer window, for instance,
but the original name will still be displayed when loading your
document in a Version 5 session. As a consequence, links may no
longer work. |
Click OK to
close the warning window then enter the new name in the Rename
dialog box that opens: |
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Bear in mind that this command neither check nor
relocate links between documents. If links are broken, you have to
relocate them manually using Edit > Links.
Note: the content of the renamed documents
remains unchanged. |
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To
delete one or several documents, select the documents to be deleted then
click Delete
or click directly Delete
then use the File Selection dialog box to navigate to
the files to be deleted.
Be careful not to select any loaded or open
document, otherwise a warning message will inform you that the
removal is not allowed.
After selecting the files to be deleted, a warning
window informs you that some links might no longer work.
Bear in mind that this command neither check nor relocate links
between documents, you will have to do it manually using Edit
> Links. |
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To
find a document, select it then click Find
in the Desk toolbar to open the File Selection
dialog box which lets you navigate to the desired document.
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To upgrade or check a document, right-click it
then select CATDUAV5
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This opens the Data Upward Assistant in your Version 5
session.
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To reconcile a document, right-click it then select
Launch Document Reconciliation. This opens the Reconcile
Window that enables you to exchange CATIA designs stored in a VPDM:
ENOVIAVPM, ENOVIA LCA, or
SmarTeam.
For detailed information on how to use the
reconciliator, refer to the Version 5 - Work Package Exchange
documentation. |
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More About the Unload Mechanism
Cache system
When working with the cache system, do not forget to activate the Design
mode (by default, you are in Visualization mode), otherwise you will not be
able to use the Unload command. For detailed information on
the Design mode, refer to "Setting Up The Design Mode" in the
Version 5 - Product Structure User's Guide.
Linked documents
- When an unloaded document points to other documents,
the pointed documents are also unloaded.
- When unloading a part that belongs to several products,
the command applies to all the products containing this
part.
UI-Activation
A document that is UI-active or that belongs to the UI-activation group
cannot be unloaded. Let's have a look at the two examples below.
In the first example, no product can be unloaded since Product1 is
UI-active and all the objects located under Product1 belongs to the
UI-activation group: |