Sharing a Mock-up with another Site  

The objective is to send a minimum quantity of data necessary in order for those working on the receiving end to work on the mock-up.
The cache must be activated if you wish to export cache entities. To activate the cache system, see Activating the Cache.
 

  1. The sender builds the mock-up in a CATProduct. 

  2. The sender invokes the DMUCacheExport  command in order to copy the data of the mock-up onto a directory A:
    In the menu bar, select Tools -> DMU Data Flow -> DMUCacheExport.

    The DMU Export dialog box appears.

     

  3. In the Save in text-entry field, enter the path of the directory in which you wish to save the data or click the Browse button to navigate to the desired directory.

  4. In the With the prefix text-entry field, enter a prefix that will distinguish your exported data from the actual data.

  5. Click the selection button and choose either Save Products and data or Save Products, data and cache from the proposed save options list.

  1. Click the OK button to confirm.

    Note: The name of the active window will now be prefixed by the string you designated in the above dialog box.

Warning: When using the Save Products and data or Save Products, data and cache options, models and CATParts coming from a PDM are saved only if they are in design mode. If they are not in design mode, then the product might still point to data in the database.
 

  1. The sender sends the (flat) content of the directory A to the receiver.

  1. The receiver puts the (flat) content on a directory B.

  2. The receiver invokes the DMUCacheImport command to build his environment from the content of the directory B:

    In the menu bar, select Tools -> DMU Data Flow -> DMUCacheImport.

    The DMU Import  dialog box appears.

     

  3. In the Search in text-entry field, specify the directory from the mock-up is to be imported (the directory B mentioned above in step 9) or click the Browse button to navigate to the desired directory.

  4. Click the OK button to confirm.

The mock-up is imported into your local cache.

 
This scenario imposes modifications on the receiver environment : he has to work without timestamp verification. On the other hand, the sent mock-up can be sent back to re-enter the design process.