Managing Catalog Documents in ENOVIAvpm

This task shows you how to:
  • create an ENOVIAvpm document with an empty catalog,
  • in CATIA V5, fill in a catalog document stored in ENOVIAvpm,
  • update in CATIA V5 a catalog document stored in ENOVIAvpm,
  • instantiate in CATIA V5 a cataloged Part in an ENOVIAvpm assembly.
Have an ENOVIA 3d com Navigator and a CATIA V5 session running.
 

Creating an ENOVIAvpm Document with an Empty Catalog

  1. In CATIA V5, create an empty catalog using Start -> Infrastructure -> Catalog Editor and build the catalog structure:

  2. Create an ENOVIAvpm document with the catalog:
 

Filling In CATIA V5 a Catalog Document Stored in ENOVIAvpm

  1. In Settings > V5 Options > Open Model Options, select Open Catalog Mode In Editor.

  2. Right-click in the ENOVIA 3d com Navigator on the catalog document and select CATIA_V5 -> Load from the contextual menu:

  3. Load into CATIA V5 the CATIA V5 documents and / or V4 models to be referenced in the catalog:

  4. Add the CATIA V5 documents and / or CATIA V4 models from the CATIA V5 session in the catalog according to the catalog Product Structure.

  • For each CATIA V5 document and / or CATIA V4 model, double-click on the dedicated family in the dedicated chapter:

  • Add it to the selected family using Insert->Add Component:

  • Click on Select document in session, then select it:

  • Click OK to validate. The result is then, in our example:

  1. Save in ENOVIAvpm using File -> Save.
  • Catalog documents can also be filled only with features of CATIA V5 documents (external features).
  • Links between catalog and referenced documents are represented by reference-to-reference links:
 
 

Updating in CATIA V5 a Catalog Document Stored in ENOVIAvpm

  To update a catalog document (structure, component, etc.), load it in CATIA V5 from the ENOVIA 3d com Navigator in editor mode and save the modifications in ENOVIAvpm as described above.
 

Instantiating in CATIA V5 a Cataloged Part in an ENOVIAvpm Assembly

  1. In Settings > V5 Options > Open Model Options, select Open Catalog Mode In Browser.

  2. Load in CATIA V5 the ENOVIAvpm assembly, then right-click in the ENOVIA 3d com Navigator on the catalog document and select CATIA_V5 -> Load from the contextual menu:

  3. Right-click in the catalog on each component to be instantiated in the ENOVIAvpm assembly and select Instantiate component:

The result in the ENOVIAvpm assembly is then, in our example:

  1. Position them in the ENOVIAvpm assembly:

  1. Save in ENOVIAvpm using File -> Save. In the ENOVIA 3d com Navigator, the new assembly links are to be committed in the ENOVIAvpm database:

Operations committed in the ENOVIAvpm database are then, in our example:

The ENOVIAvpm assembly Product Structure is finally updated in the ENOVIA 3d com Navigator web tree: