Overview          

This book is intended for the user who needs to become quickly familiar SmarTeam - CATIA Web Integration product.

This overview provides the following information:


SmarTeam - CATIA Web Integration Product in a Nutshell

SmarTeam - CATIA Web Integration Product is a seamless, integrated, rapidly usable drawing and document management tool for CATIA users. It gives you the power to manage your parts, products and drawings easily, effectively and affordably, and provides powerful functions to assist you in building assemblies.

SmarTeam together with the CATIA Integration product data management solution (PDM) is designed to give you the tools to create, edit, view and control CATIA documents, in an intuitive and friendly way.

SmarTeam is a revolutionary PDM solution. This philosophy stands behind the product and enables users to install, set up and implement a full fledged Product Data Management solution very easily and rapidly, while maintaining a broad spectrum of functionality.

SmarTeam streamlines the flow of documents through an organization's business process, thereby promoting communication, cooperation and teamwork. SmarTeam together with the CATIA Integration provides a process-oriented approach which enables individuals to work together as a team throughout a product's life cycle.

What are the benefits of the web based SmarTeam - CATIA Web Integration Product?

SmarTeam - CATIA Web Integration Product is a new architecture of the SmarTeam CATIA Integration based on web applications. 

The most important benefit is that no more installation of SmarTeam is needed on the client. SmarTeam - Web Editor enables secure product lifecycle collaboration through the SmarTeam database from standard Internet browsers. SmarTeam -Web Editor exploits standard web technologies to provide remote individuals and teams working on multi-platforms, with comprehensive access to the central SmarTeam database and managed files, enabling users to manipulate product data easily in a dynamic and secure environment from anywhere.

Before Reading this Guide

Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 5 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 5 products. It also describes the general layout of V5 and the interoperability between workbenches.

Note that the name of the product referred to in this user's guide has been changed to ENOVIA SmarTeam - CATIA Web Product (ENOVIA added). Whenever SmarTeam - CATIA Web Product is mentioned in the documentation, read ENOVIA  SmarTeam - CATIA Web Product.

Getting the Most out of this Guide

This book is intended for users who need to use the SmarTeam - CATIA Web Integration product. The user should already be familiar with basic SmarTeam - CATIA Integration TDM functionalities and with CATIA Version 5 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars.

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest you start reading the User Tasks.

For installation please refer to the installation guide of SmarTeam Web Editor as there is no installation on the client computer.

Conventions Used in this Guide

To learn more about the conventions used in this guide, see the Conventions section.