Product Knowledge Template

Overview

Conventions

What's New?

Getting Started

Basic Tasks

Power Copies

About Power Copies

Creating a Power Copy

Saving a Power Copy in a Catalog

Instantiating Power Copies

Instantiating a Power Copy From a Catalog, From a Document, From a Selection

Instantiating Power Copies Using Step By Step Instantiation

Instantiating Power Copies Using Part Comparison Instantiation

Instantiating a Power Copy From a VB Macro

Storing a Design Table in a Power Copy

Power Copies: Useful Tips

User Features

About User Features

About the User Feature Definition Window

Creating a User Feature

Creating a User Feature

About NLS User Features

Creating a NLS User Feature

Saving a User Feature in a Catalog

Instantiating a User Feature

Instantiating a User Feature From a Catalog, From a Document, From a Selection

Instantiating a User Feature From a VB Macro

Modifying a User Feature

Assigning a Type to a User Feature

Debugging a User Feature

Using the Parent/Children Debug Command

Referencing User Features in Search Operations

User Features: Useful Tips

User Features: Limitations

Part and Assembly Templates

About Part and Assembly Templates

About the Document Template Definition Window

Creating a Part Template

Instantiating a Part Template

Creating a Document Template Containing Meta Inputs

Instantiating a Document Template Containing Meta Inputs

Adding an External Document to a Document Template

Document Templates: Limitations

Knowledge Pattern Features

About the Knowledge Pattern Feature

About the Knowledge Pattern Editor

Generating Datum Features Using the Knowledge Pattern

Instantiating a User Feature Using the Knowledge Pattern

Useful Tips and Limitations

Meta Inputs

Interactive Templates Quick Reference

About The Insert Object Dialog Box

Advanced Tasks

Working with the Scripting Language

Creating a Script

Starting from a Script Skeleton

Generating a Document from a Script

Using the Generative Script Language: Overview

Script Structure

Object Properties

Comments

Operators

Keywords

import Keyword

let Keyword

In Keyword

publish Keyword

Input Keyword

from Keyword

context Keyword

isa Keyword

Variables

Limitations

Generative Script Objects

Using the Generative Knowledge Commands

Specifying a Context

Declaring Input Data

Reusing Input Data: the let Keyword

Tips and Tricks

About Generic Naming

Message: property does not exist

Message: feature could not be updated

How to Specify a File Path (three methods)

The Rectangular Pattern is not Generated

Importing Sketches: Recommendation

Specifying Strings: Recommendation

Use Cases

The Tow Hook

The Ladder

The Morphing Template

The Pocket Calculator

Creating a Knowledge Pattern

Product Knowledge Template Interoperability

ENOVIA LCA Interoperability

Optimal CATIA PLM Usability for Product Knowledge Template

Working with Assembly Templates in ENOVIA V5 VPM

Saving and Using Assembly Templates in ENOVIA V5 VPM

Working with Assembly Templates in ENOVIA V5 VPM Using VPM Navigator

Instantiating a Part Template From ENOVIA V5 VPM Using the Document Chooser

ENOVIA VPM Interoperability

Working with Assembly Templates in ENOVIAVPM

Workbench Description

Product Knowledge Template Menu Bar

Toolbars

Customizing for Product Knowledge Template

Knowledge

Units

Knowledge Environment

Report Generation

Parameter Tolerance

References

Using the Object Browser

Basic Wireframe Package

GSMCircle Object

GSMLine Object

GSMPlane Object

GSMPoint Object

Mechanical Modeler Package

Part Shared Package

Fillet Object

Constant Edge Fillet Object

Pattern Object

Standard Package

GSD Shared Package

GSD Package

Knowledge Expert Package

Methodology

Working with PowerCopies

Instantiating a PowerCopy From a Macro

Working with User Features (UDFs): Getting Started

Controlling the Orientation of User Feature Inputs

Defining an Object Type Based on a User-Defined Feature

Creating a NLS User Feature

Instantiating a User Feature From a Macro

Working with Document Templates

Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions: User Features

Frequently Asked Questions: PowerCopies

Glossary

Index