Tools For Working in a Concurrent Engineering Environment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 SmarTeam - CATIA Integration facilitates working concurrently. This is performed by:

Thus, working concurrently is easier:

  • by promoting:

    • the opening of documents without any check-out (View)

    • the check-out using the CATIA SmarTeam>LifeCycle>Check-Out command or by means of a check-out on the fly

    • the use of the Refresh command (to update the Product Structure and Desk tree icons)

    • the use of the Global Refresh command (to reload the latest versions of documents from the SmarTeam database).

  • through easy access to the Product Structure tree and, in File Desk, to the read-only and modified status.

Displayed Information

Non-Latest Revision Status

If a document is opened in CATIA with a revision that is not the latest, the SmarTeam information is displayed in the Product Structure and File-Desk trees.

Modified and Read-Only Status

If a check-in or release document is opened in CATIA and is modified, a specific icon mask is displayed in the CATIA Product Structure and File Desk trees.

Operations

Tree Refresh

The CATIA SmartTeam > Tools > Refresh command updates the Product Structure and File Desk icons with regard to SmarTeam information.

This is particularly useful for concurrent engineering. For instance, if you are using checked-in parts within their assembly, you can use the Tree Refresh command to check whether its loaded parts correspond to the latest revision. Another user may have performed a check-out, modifications and a check-in while the first user is still using the old file revision.

The Tree Refresh capability updates the display of icons representing documents in the specification tree, not your session, contrary to the Global Refresh capability.

Check-Out on the Fly

After an initial modification on a checked-in or released document, a window is displayed asking you if you want to perform a check-out on the fly operation. This functionality enables you to perform check-outs only when necessary and thus contributes to concurrent engineering.
 
Check out on the fly windows displays SmarTeam information as set in the Tree Properties dialog box. For more information, see Customizing SmarTeam Document Display Information.

Global Refresh

The Global Refresh capability enables design engineers to update their CATIA sessions to reflect the latest versions of the documents as saved in the SmarTeam vault.