CATIA V5 thus becomes an editor of ENOVIA Product Structure. You can send to CATIA V5:
- only the product structure, selecting in ENOVIA the Part Instances,
- the product structure and its shape representations selecting in ENOVIA the attached document representations.
The purpose of this section is to prevent the user from building / editing data in CATIA V5 if it cannot be saved in ENOVIA LCA. Therefore, in interoperability mode, some CATIA V5 commands are dimmed or unavailable in the Product Structure workbench.
Only commands subject to restrictions are listed below. In some cases, rules are applied to restricted commands.
| Product Structure Workbench | ||||
| Feature | Command | Accessibility in LCA mode | Warning / Comment | Save in LCA (rules) |
| Product Structure Tools |
Inserting Existing Components |
NO | - | Only CATIA MultiCAD formats are available. |
| Insert New Products | YES | - | You can set Structure Exposed or Publications Exposed mode for New Products created by Insert New Product. For more information, please refer to the Infrastructure User Guide, Customizing, General Settings, General, Compatibility, ENOVIA V5 VPM. | |
| Replacing a Component | YES | - | Only CATIA MultiCAD formats are
available. Special Rules for Saving CATIA V5 Data to ENOVIA LCA |
|
| Unloading Components | YES | - | Unloading Components from the ENOVIA LCA Toolbar or ENOVIA VPM toolbar (Unload Branch) | |
| Reordering the Tree | YES | Accessible but all the transient data (in CATIA Session) will be lost in LCA; this notion does not exist in ENOVIA LCA. | The ENOVIA Product Structure will not be ordered in Exposed structure mode. | |
| Generating Numbers | NO (dimmed) | - | - | |
| Defining Contextual Links | YES | Accessible but contextual links are not supported in some cases (known persistency problems). | Contextual Link Rules in CATIA V5 and ENOVIA LCA | |
|
Deactivating / Activating a Component |
NO (unavailable) | - | - | |
| New CDM Component | NO (dimmed) | _ | - | - |
| Move | Using Flexible Sub-Products | NO (unavailable) | - | - |
| Representations | Managing Representations | YES | Data may be lost in some cases. | Managing
Representations Special Rules for Saving CATIA V5 Data to ENOVIA LCA Some CATIA MultiCAD formats are not available |
| Managing Shapes | YES | - | Managing Shapes: How to create a Shape in CATIA V5 and save it in ENOVIA LCA, etc... | |
| Save Activation State | NO (dimmed) | - | - | |
| WBS | Delete WBS | - | This command is no longer supported. | - |
| Generic Commands | ||||
| Feature | Command | Accessibility in LCA mode | Warning / Comment | Save in LCA (rules) |
| Generic Tools | Editing Components | YES |
Data may be lost in some cases. |
Special Rules for Saving CATIA V5 Data to ENOVIA LCA |
| Edit Product and Graphic Properties | YES | - |
Disable edition of the unmapped properties. |
|
| Show / Hide | YES | Warning: All transient data are lost. | - | |
| Copy / Paste | YES | Warning: It is not allowed to paste an ENOVIA LCA Product (or PLM) on a file product. For more information, please refer to the Copy / Paste scenario. | - | |
