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Many engineering groups use catalogs of standard parts. This section describes the necessary steps a librarian should follow to enable engineers manipulate catalogs as necessary in CATIA and provides a few recommendations.
For reference information about catalogs, see the CATIA Component Catalog Editor User's Guide. SmarTeam helps you manage your catalogs, however, instantiating parts from the catalog must be done while creating a reference and not thru creating a new instance (as multiple documents will be stored in the SmarTeam database for each instantiation). When you perform lifecycle operations on the catalog, SmarTeam may attempt to retrieve all catalog components from the vault. In the Lifecycle dialog set only the relevant parts of the catalog to copy. Authorization Setting for Standard CATIA PartsRemove permissions for all lifecycle operations for design
engineers. Setting Up a Shared Directory for CATIA CatalogsAssign a shared directory for which all design engineers
have read-only permission. Product Resource Management (PRM)Catalogs allow a certain number of CATIA workbenches such as Piping Design, Tubing Design etc. to manage specific components. To integrate SmarTeam into these workbenches, librarians must specify the paths of the shared directories they create for their catalogs in their Product Resource Management (PRM) files (Project.xml files). Creating and Saving CatalogsWhen managing catalogs, as a librarian the first step you must perform is creating a catalog in CATIA. Then you need to save it in SmarTeam and make it available to users by copying it into in a shared directory. Here are the main instructions to follow for integrating CATIA catalogs into your SmarTeam database. This procedure can be divided in the following main steps:
Creating a Catalog
Resolving Part Families and Part Family ComponentsResolving a part family or a part family component means generating the .CATPart documents referred to by the part family or the part family component. These documents are generated in a specific folder (you specify in the catalog settings) and each generated document is a copy of the generative part configured with the matching row in the design table.
Saving CATIA V5 catalogs inside SmarTeamBefore saving catalogs into SmarTeam, we recommend you first save all CATPart documents. To do this, perform File > Open, SmarTeam > Save, File > Close operations for each of these documents. Once done, you can open the catalog file and save it into SmarTeam. Accessing CATIA CatalogsDesign engineers who need to instantiate catalog components (parts, products, V4 model etc.) can access their catalogs using the shared directory. Because most of the time catalogs include massive data, we recommend librarians to set create shared directories. Searching in the shared directory therefore is the method we recommend for accessing catalogs.
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