Many engineering groups use catalogs of standard parts. This section describes the necessary steps a librarian should follow to enable engineers manipulate catalogs as necessary in CATIA and provides a few recommendations.
Instructions for design engineers who need to access
catalog components are described in Accessing
CATIA Catalogs. SMARTEAM may help you manage your catalogs, however, instantiating parts from the catalog must be done while creating a reference and not through creating a new instance (as multiple documents will be stored in the SMARTEAM database for each instantiation). When you perform lifecycle operations on the catalog, SMARTEAM may attempt to retrieve all catalog components from the vault. In the Lifecycle dialog set only the relevant parts of the catalog to copy. Authorization Setting for Standard CATIA PartsRemove permissions for all lifecycle operations for design
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Setting Documents Extraction TypeThe option "Extract from the vault document linked to a Catalog if needed " makes it possible to restrict the number of CATPart documents to be extracted from the vault. You can load only the CATPart documents you need, which optimizes performance.
NoteMake sure to use the "Local preview" option when you create catalogs. In case you do not create catalogs using the "Local preview" option (stored in the catalog file), CATIA always extracts the CATPart documents to generate the preview, resulting in poor performances. For more information about Local preview, see the CATIA Component Catalog Editor User's Guide. |
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Setting Up a Shared Directory for CATIA CatalogsUp to V5R17, we recommended the shared directory methodology for extracting catalogs parts. The explanations below remain valid, but for performance purposes, you now should work using Extract from the vault document linked to a Catalog if needed as described in the above paragraph. Assign a shared directory for which all design engineers
have read-only permission. Creating and Saving CATIA CatalogsThe procedure described below is a simplified version of the process. For detailed instructions, see to Creating and Saving a Catalog.
CATIA Standard Parts Class
Product Resource Management (PRM)Catalogs allow a certain number of CATIA workbenches such as Piping Design, Tubing Design etc. to manage specific components. To integrate SMARTEAM into these workbenches, librarians must specify the paths of the shared directories they create for their catalogs in their Product Resource Management (PRM) files (Project.xml files). For more information, see Integrating CATIA Equipment and Systems Engineering Workbenches. |
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