Overview

Welcome to the DMU Space Engineering Assistant Installation Guide. The DMU Space Engineering Assistant Installation Guide is intended for anyone who wants to install DMU Space Engineering Assistant. It is primarily intended for the system administrator, database administrator and data administrator, but it can also be used by general users or super users of  ENOVIA LCA and CATIA applications.

This guide is a reference; it assumes that you will be installing DMU Space Engineering Assistant and therefore presents all of the data administration tasks such as customization, etc.

This overview provides the following information:

• DMU Space Engineering Assistant in a Nutshell

• Before Reading this Guide

• Getting the Most out of this Guide

• Conventions Used in this Guide

DMU Space Engineering Assistant in a Nutshell

DMU Space Engineering Assistant shortens design cycle time in concurrent environment through the capability it gives the designers to check the consistency of their design with the data stored in ENOVIA LCA while they are working. This is done through interference analysis piloted by Knowledgeware rules allowing best practices compliance at the company level. Interference analysis results can then be stored in ENOVIA LCA.

Thus, DMU Space Engineering Assistant fits the needs of designers working in a collaborative environment, in industries dealing with large assemblies (shipbuilding, automotive, aerospace, etc.).

Description

DMU Space Engineering Assistant checks the consistency of a design with the data stored in ENOVIA LCA according to pre-defined clash analysis rules allowing shorter design cycles.

• Defines Knowledgeware rules to pilot clash computation

  • Specifies the computation type (clearance, contact, clash) and the components on which the clash computation must be applied 

  • User/company benefits : automation, productivity gains, best practices/standardization, more accurate and relevant clash results
    

• Performs interference analysis according to predefined clash rules between in-session component (s) and components stored in ENOVIA LCA

  • Interference analysis computation is performed on a dedicated server

  • This interference analysis is launched when a component is created or modified in CATIA V5

  • This interference analysis is triggered when a set of components are moved in CATIA V5

  • User benefits : 

    • while working, a designer can check the consistency of his design with the stored data in ENOVIA LCA

    • productivity and shorter design cycles in concurrent environment
      

• Stores the interference analysis results in ENOVIA LCA

  • Browses the interference analysis results and manage conflicts

    • The user can choose the status of conflicts (irrelevant, relevant)

    • Dedicated browser presenting the interference analysis results

    • The user can also comment conflicts and filter them

  • Loads from ENOVIA LCA the components interfering with the in-session components and the relevant interference analysis results

  • Stores automatically interference analysis results when storing the in-session component in ENOVIA LCA

  • Interferences are detected between user sessions data and any part effective in any configuration

Before Reading this Guide

Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic ENOVIA and CATIA Version 5 concepts. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Enterprise Architecture Installation Guide (containing information necessary to set up an ENOVIA database and client) and the CATIA Infrastructure Installation Guide (containing information necessary to install CATIA Version 5 and providing information for administrators on topics such as hardware and software prerequisites, network licensing, code distribution and environment management.

You may also like to read the following complementary product guides, for which the appropriate license is required:

• Knowledge Expert User's Guide (containing information necessary to create Expert rules)

• DMU Space Analysis User's Guide

Getting the Most out of this Guide

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest you start reading the Getting Started.
This section gives you background information such as the basic concepts, a quick prerequisite checklist, a scheme explaining SPE functioning.

Once you have finished, you should move on to the next section: Installation Guide Wizard, an overview of the various phases of such an installation depending on the user profile, it provides step-by-step instructions for installing and setting up the server and client environments.
The next section Detailed Installation Prerequisites describes hardware and software prerequisites. It may also be a good idea to take a look at the section describing how to write a clash rule intended for super users as well as Launching Space Engineering Assistant.

Conventions Used in this Guide

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