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This task shows you how to create your own catalog.
You are going to add:
The existing catalogs are:
- Dme
- Dme-America
- Futaba
- Eoc
- Hasco
- Rabourdin
- Strack
- Misumi
- National
- Pedrotti
- PCS
- Meusburger
The catalogs are all metric with the exception of Dme-America and
National which are in inches. |
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For more complete information on the Catalog Editor, please see the
chapter on this subject in the Infrastructure manual. |
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Open the catalog editor via Start > Infrastructure >
Catalog Editor.
The editor is displayed with a new catalog that has one chapter.

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Change the name of Chapter.1 to
MyComponents by using the contextual menu and Chapter.1 object
> Definition.



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Now you are going to add a family. A family is composed of
any type of part of any type of dimension.
Click Add Family
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The Component Family Definition dialog box is
displayed. Call the new family Sliders. Click OK.
The Sliders family is created under MyComponents in
the specification tree.
A keyword Sliders is added to the Keywords tab for
MyComponents.


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Now you can add a keyword to Sliders.
Double-click Sliders in the tree. Note that their is only one
column named Name in the Keywords tab for the family
Sliders, and that it is empty.

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Click the
Add Keyword icon
. The Keyword Definition
dialog box is displayed.

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Create a string type keyword called Ref

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Now create two other keywords:
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Length of length type,
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Created by of string type.
Those new keywords define the headings to the columns that are
created in the catalog table. |
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If you wish to configure the component when creating it, the names of
keywords should be exactly identical to the names of the parameters used in
the Design Tables. |
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Click
Add Component
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In the dialog box that is displayed, go to the Keyword values
tab. Select each Keyword line and replace the default value in the
Value field as follows:
- Slider_1 for Name,
- Slider_DS01 for Ref,
- 25 mm for Length,
- Your name for Created by.
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Now go to the Reference tab and click
Select Document .
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Use the browser to select the file Slider_1.CATPart
in the Samples/Catalog directory.
Click OK. The Keywords tab is updated.
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You can now do the same with Slider_2.CATPArt and the
values below:
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A Part family is composed of one shape of part of
different dimensions.
To add more part families, double-click the MyComponents
chapter then click Add a Part Family
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The Part Family Definition dialog box is displayed.
Call the new family WearPlates.
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Add a component to this family: click
Select Document and
select WearPlate.CATPart in the samples/catalog directory.
Click OK.
The WearPlates family is created under MyComponents.

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Double-click WearPlates to see the
associated keywords:
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Save your catalog (File > Save as) in the
directory of your choice.
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You can now create a catalog of gates. It
can include side and submarine type gates. When creating a gate catalog, you
must ensure that you define both types of gates as families
before adding new gates to them. |
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