Creating a Catalog
Adding a Chapter
Adding a Link to Another Catalog
Adding a Family
Adding a Part Family
Adding a Keyword
Adding a Family Component
Adding a Generative Part
This section introduces the Catalog Editor
workbench which provides interactive commands to create and modify your own
catalogs by adding chapters, keywords and descriptions. |
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Another way to create a catalog is to:
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The icons available in the Catalog Editor are updated, i.e. grayed or not, according to the contextually edited element. For example, if you double-click a family you will only be able to add a keyword or a description. The Keyword Name is automatically added if a chapter or a family is added with interactive commands. However, to ensure compatibility with the Batch, the keyword Name is not added through batch procedure. Now let's add elements to our catalog! |
A catalog consists of chapters and each
chapter consists of families. In our example, the ALL_FASTENERS.catalog
consists of a chapter, ALL FASTENERS, and three families, SCREWS, NUTS and
PINS. |
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You have opened the ALL_FASTENERS.catalog. | |
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You can create a link to another catalog. |
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The family you are going to create will be
directly added to the current chapter. |
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You can check the Copy of Keywords
option to copy the keywords of the father chapter. The values of the copied
keywords are identical to those of the father chapter but you can modify
them. |
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A part family is made of components referring
to a .CATPart document. This part is unique but has been assigned different
sets of parameter values, each of them being stored in the form of a table
(a "design table") either in a Microsoft Excel file on Windows or in a
tabulated text file. For more information on design tables, see Design Tables in the Infrastructure guide. This section shows you how to add a part family from a selected document (i.e. a .CATPart document) managed by one or more design table. Bear in mind that:
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Note that you can hide or add
part family definition and keyword values by selecting the corresponding
item from the contextual menu. Note: If the part family is not resolved,
the images displayed in the Preview tab are based on the generic part for
performance reasons. The display is based on the resolved parts only if the
part family has been resolved. |
You can add components to families. |
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This section shows you how to add components managed by a design table to an existing part family. | ||||
Excel files are not supported on UNIX. As a
consequence, if your design table is in .xls format, you need to convert it
to the .txt format to be able to use it. You must then reroute the link of
the .CATPart document from the former .xls design table to the new .txt
design table: to do so, select the Edit->Links... command then
use the Replace button. (For more information on the Replace
button, see
Replace in the Infrastructure guide.) |
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