Step 4: Customizing Catia Settings

This task shows you how to customize Catia settings.

Input Settings

In the area, customize the various paths and files as follows:

  1. In the Comments File field, select the full path Comments file. CATIA client comments are stored in this file.
    In our example: E:\Install_Space_Engineering\Comments

    For this, click Browse and select the path accordingly in the File Browser-Choose Comments file dialog box displayed. Click Ok when done.

    Note: This pointed file must exist or must have been created before having launched Space Engineering Assistant in a CATIA session.

Output Settings

In the Output Settings area, customize the various paths and files as follows:

  1. In the Environment File Name field, specify the name of your choice for the CATIA environment file
    (i.e. Generated_Catia_Env).

  2. In the Environment File Path field, specify the path to the directory in which the environment file will be created.
    In our example: E:\Install_Space_Engineering\Generated_Env
    For this, click Browse and select the path accordingly in the Path Browser-Choose Catia Environment Directory dialog box displayed. Click Ok when done.

  3. Check your result, you should obtain something like this:

    Now, let's have a look at our architecture example

    If we zoom in on the various components

    Example of what you can obtain with a Unix interface:
     

  4. Click Save when satisfied. The Save Settings As dialog box is displayed:

    • Enter a meaningful name (in our example spe_save01) to save your xml settings file.

    • Click Save button

  5. Click Install Catia.

  6. A new CATIA environment file is generated (Generated_Catia_Env). Now, you need to replace the contents of the original CATIA environment file with the contents of this generated CATIA environment file (i.e. the file you have just created). For this:

    Duplicate the original CATIA environment file and rename this copy.
    For instance in: CATIA.V5R17.B17_backup.txt

    Replace the contents of the original CATIA Environment file (CATIA.V5R17.B17.txt) with the contents of the generated CATIA environment file (Generated_Catia_Env).

    Note: If you have already set personal variables in the CATIA.V5R17.B17.txt file, make sure you do no lose any of them.

 
If you want to perform a manual customization, read Customizing CATIA Environment

For detailed information about CATIA environment file, also read About the Environment Created on Your Computer on Windows section in the Infrastructure Installation Guide