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Here is an example of a document demonstrating how
electrical properties on component are managed within CATIA Electrical
products.
And moreover, new properties have been added to a number of electrical
components:
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A CATProduct document may contain references or instances
of the components.
Let's see the differences on the following documents:
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The Equipment.CATProduct contains an equipment.
It is the reference of the component.
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The RootProduct.CATProduct contains an occurrence of the
equipment (Insert > Existing Component...).
The Equipment(Equipment.1) is an instance of the component.
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Depending on the component you have activated (by double-clicking: blue
object) and on the object you have selected, the properties you will edit
may be the ones of the reference or of
the instance. |
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In the Equipment.CATProduct, if you edit the properties
of the Equipment, you will display the properties of the reference.
Type and External Reference are attributes of the
reference.
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If you modify them, all the occurrences will be modified. |
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In the RootProduct.CATProduct, if the RootProduct
is active (in blue in the specification tree) and if you select the
Equipment.1 to edit the properties, you will display the properties
of the instance:
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The instance also has instance attributes: Reference
Designator and SubType. |
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If you modify the attributes of
instance, only this instance
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On the other hand, if you modify the attributes of reference, they will be modified
in all the occurrences and in the
reference document. |
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In the RootProduct.CATProduct, if the Equipment.1
is active (double-click Equipment.1) and you select the
Equipment.1 to edit the properties, you will display the properties
of the reference:
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If you modify the attributes, the
reference will be modified:
- Equipment.CATProduct will be modified
- And all the occurrences of the component.
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Notes:
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This behavior is specific to the electrical
properties.
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When a product is activated (by
double-clicking), editing the electrical properties operates in the same
way as if the electrical properties were edited in the document in which
the root product is the reference of the active product. (i.e.
Equipment.1 in the RootProduct document against Equipment
in the Equipment document.)
This definition is recursive within all the levels of instance.
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Functional equipments and
connectors properties
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When you edit the properties of a functional equipment or connector,
the Preselected Physical Device frame indicates if a physical component
corresponding to the functional one has been chosen to be placed in the
geometry. Two fields give this information:
- Catalog Path indicates the location of the catalog
containing the physical component
- Part Number indicates the part number of the physical
component.
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Electrical bundle
properties
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When you edit the properties of an electrical bundle, the Associated
Geometrical Bundle frame indicates in a list the name of the geometrical
bundles being part of the electrical bundle. |
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Bundle segment
properties
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When you edit the properties of a group of bundle segments, the
Length field indicates the total length of the bundle segments
selected. |
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