Overview

This overview provides the following information:

SmarTeam - CATIA Integration in a Nutshell

SmarTeam - CATIA Integration is a seamless, integrated, rapidly implementable drawing and document management tool for users of CATIA . It gives you the power to manage your parts, products and drawings easily, effectively and affordably, and provides powerful functions to assist you in building Assemblies. SmarTeam together with the CATIA Integration product data management solution (PDM) is designed to give you the tools to create, edit, view and control CATIA documents, in an intuitive and friendly way.

SmarTeam is a revolutionary, rapidly implementable PDM solution. This philosophy stands behind the product and enables users to install, set up and implement a full fledged Product Data Management solution very easily and rapidly, while maintaining a broad spectrum of functionality.

SmarTeam streamlines the flow of documents through an organization's business process, thereby promoting communication, cooperation and teamwork. SmarTeam together with the CATIA Integration provides a process-oriented approach which enables individuals to work together as a team throughout a product's life cycle.

Data Management Tasks

During the Data Management Process, the designer is required to perform activities such as searching, copying, linking, or viewing documents. These sub-tasks are supported in SmarTeam - CATIA Integration.

The example below illustrates SmarTeam - CATIA Integration's convenient support for the various data management sub-tasks. A designer can view and check revisions, and also perform many other activities by clicking one of the tabs provided. He can then evoke the dropdown menu to begin the editing process.

Using SmarTeam - CATIA Integration, the engineer functions within an open environment, i.e. being able to manage all engineering data within the CATIA environment.

The SmarTeam - CATIA Integration functionality is deeply integrated and eliminates the time-consuming and bureaucratic process of opening and closing external software in order to perform design and data management tasks.

Features and Benefits

The seamless integration between CATIA and SmarTeam enables the CATIA users to streamline their workflow in the following manner:

  • Work in concurrent engineering through SmarTeam
  • Browse through any SmarTeam window to view a hierarchical listing of SmarTeam documents.
  • View the Profile Card of any document. The Profile Card displays file information, revision information, linked documents as well as thumbnail images of the part, product or drawing.
  • Perform searches to locate any document saved in the SmarTeam database.
  • Create and save Assemblies. Links are automatically created between the components of an Assembly to reflect their composition in CATIA . During revision management, the integrity of the Assembly and its components is easily maintained.
    You can view and access these links in the Links page of the Profile card.
    • Where Used links list all the parents of a document. These links are extremely useful in locating all the Assemblies in which a specific part is used.
    • Composed of links list all the children of a document. For example, it lists all the subassemblies (parts and drawings) of an Assembly.
  • Create and save drawings. Links are automatically created between the drawing and the part/product on which it is based. During revision management, the integrity of the revisions is easily maintained.

Getting the Most out of this Guide
This book is intended for the user who needs to become quickly familiar with the SmarTeam - CATIA Integration product. The user should be familiar with basic CATIA Version 5 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Prior to reading this book, we recommend that you read the various CATIA V5 installation tasks in the CATIA - Infrastructure User's Guide Version 5.

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest you start reading Getting Started. Then we suggest you read the Basic Tasks.

Logging In

In order to use the SmarTeam - CATIA Integration features, don't forget to log in using your login name and password as registered by the system administrator. Demo users should log in asjoe (case sensitive) without any password.

Conventions Used in this Guide
To learn more about the conventions used in this guide, see the Conventions section.