Overview

This book is intended for the user who needs to become quickly familiar with Knowledge Advisor.

This overview provides the following information:

Knowledge Advisor in a Nutshell

CATIA - KNOWLEDGE ADVISOR is a CATIA product which allows users to embed knowledge within design and leverage it to assist in engineering decisions, in order to reduce errors or  automate design, for maximum productivity.

Users can embed knowledge in design such as formulas, rules and checks and leverage it when required at any time. Knowledge is then taken into account and acts according to its definition. Its meaning is also accessible: For example a check intent can highlight the parameters involved in a verification, it is easy and immediate to understand in what way a standard has been violated.  

In short, Knowledge Advisor enables users to:

  • Capture corporate engineering knowledge as embedded specifications allowing complete consistency.
  • Easily define and share know-how among all users.
  • Automate product definition.
  • Ensure compliance with corporate standard.
  • Increase productivity.
  • Increase Knowledge management for sharing and understanding intents. 
  • Build Knowledge components management for customization and reuse. 
  • Allow early attention to final design specifications preventing costly redesigns.
  • Guide and assist users through their design tasks. 

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.

Getting the Most out of this Guide

To get the most of this guide, we suggest that you start performing the step-by-step Getting Started tutorial.

Once you have finished, you should move on to the User Tasks section.

The Workbench Description section, which describes the Knowledge Advisor workbench, and the Customizing section, which explains how to set up the options, will also certainly prove useful.

Accessing sample documents

To perform the scenarios, you will be using sample documents contained in either the online/kwrug/samples folder.
For more information about this, please refer to Accessing Sample Documents in the Infrastructure User's Guide.

Conventions Used in this Guide

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