Peer-to-Peer Collaboration: Sharing Design

This task gives you the road map to follow when sharing design using CATIA Instant Collaborative Design.

 
Step 1: Set up your Session
 
 

Step 2: Join a Group

Step 3: Create a Briefcase and share your design

Step 4: Merge a Briefcase

Creating a Briefcase  

To send collaboration data, create a briefcase. To do so, proceed as follows:

  1. Click the  Share Selected Entities icon () in the Collaborative Design toolbar. The Briefcase dialog box displays or right-click your community in the Community window and select the Design sharing command (see picture opposite.)

  1. Select the objects to be exchanged in the specifications tree. Note that selection rules are set depending on the object type (allowing or forbidding the selection of entities.) The selected objects are added to the list:

To know more about the objects that can be selected, see Selecting Features for Sharing. 

See also: Sharing Deleted Features, Preparing a Briefcase and Understanding and Merging the content of a Briefcase

  
 

  1. In the Community dialog box, select the person with whom you wish to exchange the briefcase. If you wish to share with the entire group, then select the group

  2. Fill in the Subject and the Message text fields.

  3. Click OK when done. The briefcase is sent.

Merging a Briefcase

To merge (apply) a briefcase, proceed as follows:

  1. Click OK when receiving the message indicating that you've received a briefcase (see picture opposite).
    The Briefcase window displays.

  2. In the Briefcases window, click Yes.
Note that in Peer-to-peer mode, it is not possible to postpone the merging of a briefcase. You have to merge it when the Instant Design Collaboration Message displays.
 

Deleting a Briefcase

To delete a briefcase, proceed as follows:

  1. Click OK when receiving the message indicating that you've received a briefcase (see picture opposite).
    The Briefcase window displays.

  2. Click the No  button if you do not want to merge the design.
Note that in Peer-to-peer mode, it is not possible to postpone the deleting of a briefcase. You have to delete it when the Instant Design Collaboration Message displays.