ENOVIAvpm or LCA / CATIA V5 in Mobile Session

  The mobile mode allows CATIA V5 data exchange between ENOVIAvpm or ENOVIA V5 VPM site and CATIA V5 site (exchange between subcontractor and prime contractor).

This task will show you how to create a mobile session, modify documents in a mobile session and save the modified documents in ENOVIA (VPM or LCA).

Settings

Installation:

  • EW1 works with E5I.

Before you begin:

  • You have to display the Nomad Session toolbar.
  • Then, you have to load data from ENOVIA (VPM or LCA) to CATIA V5.

Displaying the Nomad Session toolbar

It is recommended to display the Nomad Session toolbar before opening a CATIA V5 editor.

  1. Activate the option View > Toolbars > Mobile Session in the main menu. The Mobile Session Toolbar appears.

  2. The default position of the Mobile Session toolbar is the following:

    You can also move the Nomad Session toolbar. For more information, please refer to the Customizing chapter in the Infrastructure User's Guide. The toolbar appears as shown here:

Loading data from ENOVIAvpm or LCA to CATIA V5

You now have to connect ENOVIA (VPM or LCA) and CATIA V5 and send documents from ENOVIA (VPM or LCA) to CATIA V5.

Note: you have to load all the documents you need in the mobile session before creating this session.

 Creating a Mobile Session
It is recommended to create a folder in the directory you want before creating a mobile session.
This folder will store the following documents:
  • documents of the current editor,
  • pointed documents,
  • document related to the mobile session (with the extension .DocNomad).
Several mobile sessions can not be stored in the same folder.

  1. Select NOMAD in the Switch NOMAD <-> PDM list of the Nomad Session toolbar:

  • if you have loaded documents from ENOVIA V5 VPM:
  • if you have loaded documents from ENOVIAvpm:

The Choose Nomad Path dialog box appears:

  1. Change the path directory, if needed.
    For this, click the Browse... button in the Choose Nomad Path dialog box. The File Selection dialog box appears to let you select the folder you have previously created.
Note that: The Choose Nomad Path dialog box displays a default path directory (the temporary directory of CATIA), unless you have previously defined the CATPDM_NOMAD_PATH variable. This variable lets you define a default path directory.
For more information about variables, please refer to the Managing Environments chapter of the Installation and Administration Guide.
  • Be aware that you should not use the CATIAV5_ENOVIAV5 variable in the CATIA environment where Nomad sessions are run.
  • Before switching into Nomad mode, there should not be new elements that are not saved in ENOVIA. Please switch to Nomad just after you have opened the data.
 

  1. Click OK in the File Selection dialog box. The Choose Nomad Path is updated.

  2. Click OK in the Choose Nomad Path dialog box. The loaded documents and the mobile session are stored in this folder.

  3. You can now close your document and the CATIA V5 session.

 

Opening and Modifying an Existing Mobile Session

You can work without an ENOVIA session.
You just have to launch CATIA V5. There is no need to connect CATIA V5 and ENOVIA (VPM or LCA).
 

  1. Click the Open Nomad Session icon in the Nomad Session toolbar. The Choose Nomad Path dialog box appears to let you select the directory in which the mobile session has been stored.

  2. Click the Browse... button in the Choose Nomad Path dialog box, select the path directory in which the mobile session has been stored, and click OK in the File Selection dialog box.

  3. Click OK in the Choose Nomad Path dialog box. You can retrieve the document sent from ENOVIA (VPM or LCA) in a mobile session.

  4. Modify this document. You can perform all the actions you are used to do within the context of interoperability between CATIA V5 and ENOVIA (VPM or LCA). For example, you can: create an instance, move an instance, modify a geometry.

  5. Save the modified mobile session. For this, select Save in the File menu bar of CATIA V5.

If you save only one document belonging to the Mobile Session, all the files belonging to the Mobile Session will be saved as well.

  1. You can now close your document.

Saving back a Mobile Session in ENOVIA
 

  1. Click the Open Nomad Session icon in the Nomad Session toolbar. The Choose Nomad Path dialog box appears to let you select the directory in which the mobile session has been stored.

  2. Click the Browse... button in the Choose Nomad Path dialog box, select the path directory in which the mobile session has been stored, and click OK in the File Selection dialog box.

  3. Click OK in the Choose Nomad Path dialog box. You can retrieve the document sent from ENOVIA (VPM or LCA) and the modifications you have performed in the mobile session.

  4. Connect CATIA V5 to ENOVIA.

  5. Select the ENOVIA5 or VPM1 in the Switch NOMAD <-> PDM list of the Nomad Session toolbar to switch your mobile session to a PDM session.

    The content of the mobile session directory is automatically deleted.

Note that it is important to save your documents in ENOVIA before closing them in the CATIA session, otherwise all your modifications are lost.

 

  1. Save back your modifications in ENOVIA (VPM or LCA). For this, you have to:

    • Click the Save Data in ENOVIA V5 VPM Server... icon if you have switched the mobile session to ENOVIA V5 VPM.
      For more information about this Save operation, please refer to Saving an ENOVIA V5 VPM Document from CATIA V5 chapter in this guide.

    OR
     

    • Select Save in the File menu if you have switched the mobile session to ENOVIAvpm.
For more information about this Saving operation, please refer to the following chapters: Saving Existing Documents, Saving All Documents and, Managing Document Save in the CATIA - Infrastructure User's Guide.

More information about Mobile Session.

  • You can add a new part / document in an existing mobile session. It is possible to create new instances but the user needs to make sure that the switch to Nomad is done before creating new data.
  • Several mobile sessions can not be opened simultaneously in the same CATIA session.
  • Cache data are not saved during a mobile session.
  • Sometimes, the names of pointed documents not present in the nomad session are not readable. They are displayed with hexadecimal value. This is a normal behavior, the link is not broken, and it will be solved when switching back to ENOVIA.

  • Catalogs and Technological Packages are not integrated in Nomad and Mobile Sessions.