SmarTeam CATIA Integration
- Large Assembly & Concurrent Design:
- Global Refresh: Enables you to update a complete CATIA product, applying
the latest available revisions to all of the products children.
- Design Compare: Allows the opening of several versions of the same CATIA
Part or CATIA Product within a CATIA session, helping the designer to integrate
the preferred version into the final project.
- Releasing a checked-in document using Job Server: If Job Server is implemented
on your system, CATIA documents can now be released directly from SmarTeam -
Editor without the need for a CATIA installation on your machine.
- SmarTeam Document Status in the CATIA Document Node Tooltip:
The SmarTeam Document status has been added to the tooltip of the CATIA document
Node.
- Save as Type option: The new Save as Type option saves the current document
into the SmarTeam database in a different format and optionally links it to
the master CATIA document used to create this document. This safely saves the
created document to SmarTeam, eliminating the possibility of mistakes when manually
defining the file type and linking it to a specific revision.
- Tools Options - Some environment variables have been removed and their purpose
is now exposed SmarTeam (CAI) tools options tab:
- Display the Smarteam Project Manager window the first time a Save to
SmarTeam operation is performed even if the root object was previously saved.
- Prevent the SmarTeam Save operation from loading the context during
the update of design links, in order to improve performance and memory consumption.
- Allow the Check-Out/New-Release operation on non-latest revision.
- Send the instances activity information to SmarTeam to compute the Quantity
attribute based on this information.
- Non-latest available icon: The non-latest available icons have been updated.
- Batch for instance exposure: Using the SmarTeam 3D Live Open In Catia functionality,
a 3D Live user can load specific parts/products from an assembly in a CATIA
session. In order to work, the instances information of the assembly must be
stored in the SmarTeam database. After the information is stored, CATIA can
provide SmarTeam with this information when saving an assembly. However, the
instances information of assemblies that were already saved in SmarTeam with
previous releases is not stored. This functionality provides a tool to save
the instances information of several CATIA products selected in SmarTeam by
the user. The tool may be automated to run on the entire database .
- Quantity: When the Save process updates the links between each component
of the assembly, the activity information of each instance is sent to SmarTeam.
After that, the Quantity attribute of a component under its parent can be computed
as the sum of all its active instances. The Quantity attribute value is recomputed
and updated in SmarTeam each time a SmarTeam/Save or SmarTeam/CheckIn is done
on a checked-out/new/released assembly
- Drawing Attribute Link: When the user creates a Drawing of a Product, generates
balloons and saves the drawing to SmarTeam, the CATIA integration creates links
of each Part of the Product that is also linked to the Drawing. SDE normally
uses the balloon feature for drafting interactivity. Therefore. when a SmarTeam
Save is performed, many links are generated between the actual Part and the
Drawing that is saved in SmarTeam. However, according to the SDE LifeCycle Rule
Setup, when the Part is checked out, the drawing is also Checked Out, which
may not be necessary. The documentation explains how to avoid saving this link
in SmarTeam.
- Open for Edit: The Open for Edit check box allows you open a document for
editing. When this check box is marked, the Check Out or New Release lifecycle
operation is invoked and the corresponding lifecycle window appears. After checking
out/releasing the document, it is opened in CATIA. Note that this check box
is only available for Checked In or Released documents. If the Check Out/New
Release operation fails or is cancelled, the document will not be opened in
CATIA.
- Save /Project Manager: The Project Manager dialog box is displayed
for the first new document to save during a CATIA/SmarTeam Save transaction.