CATIA Solutions medium contains all deliveries necessary to install all available products and options. As you probably have not ordered all products or wish to install all options, you will be required to select the deliveries during installation; make sure before beginning installation that you have a list of your ordered products.
CATIA Solutions installation procedures are based on a Graphical User Interface (GUI). To access to this GUI you have to unload it before installing CATIA Solutions, after logging under root userid, you do not have to mount your CD-ROM drive as it is automatically declared when you load it. Go to the / directory and type the command /cdrom/cdrom0/START to start the CATIA installation (where /cdrom/cdrom0 is the directory where the cdrom drive is mounted)
Refer to "Activating CATIA Solutions" for more information.When installing the service pack, the operation may fail with error code WFIS00014 and Memory fault (core dump) because of the number of fixes made available to the user over time, during the evolution of CATIA Version 4 Release 2.5.
The solution is as follows:
Note: When installing the CDROM using the START command you will be prompted to name the directory into which the CATIA software will be loaded. The directory name should end with /unload.
The installation procedure takes into account the language you want to use. When creating the administrator environment your are prompted to select the language you want. All CATIA and Motif resources are created or referenced according to this language. This is done by the inilang shell run by the installation procedure.
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Before creating the administrator environment, check that you have at least a 'COM' license available. This step uses CATFONT to create CATIA fonts indexed by the value of the LANG environment variable and the CATFONT execution requests a 'COM' license. |
You can then update the administrator environment for another language. This is done by the addlang shell you must run yourself.
As of CATIA Version 5, the FONTDATA format will no longer be supported. Consequently, if you have user FONTDATAs, you must convert them to FONT and FONT CODE so that you will be able to use them in V5. This migration must be done in V4 using the CATFONT utility. V5 does not offer this migration tool.
The PROJECT file used by CATIA must be labelled to the current code page used. This is automatically performed if you install your PROJECT file using the "Additional Features".
If you want to use an existing PRJ encoded with a code page different from your current code page, run CATAIX against it using the keyword 'TO' followed by the current code page.
Until 417 level, Motif resource files such Catia.font and Catia.table set in $XAPPLRESDIR ($CAT_CUST/adm/xcfg by default) and $XAPPLRESDIR/$LANG directories, were depending on platform.
In order to simplify customer environment, an evolution has been performed:
Until 417 level, GII OPT Motif did not support font concatenation in
Motif resource file. An evolution has been performed, in particular
for DBCS languages for which sometimes we need to concatenate sbcs
and dbcs Motif fonts.
This evolution implies that character size modification functionality
is not supported in this mode, this behaviour is the same as the
behaviour provided by the HMKMOT routine.
Support of DBCS languages on SUN
The Japanese (code page shift-JIS), Korean (code page EUC_KR) and Simplified Chinese (code page EUC_CN) languages are supported on SUN.
Limitation in Number of DBCS Characters Entered on SUN
In CATIA functions providing DBCS Motif input text fields, (for example, TEXTD2) you can only enter 32 characters at one time at the most instead of 40 characters.
This is an identified SUN problem (not a CATIA problem). The number of the official SUN patch to correct this problem is not yet known.
Multi-Line Mode Problem Bypass for TEXTD2 in DBCS mode on SUN
When using the TEXTD2 function, multiline mode lets you enter several lines in the text input field. A problem on SUN in DBCS mode prevented you from entering text on several lines.
To bypass the problem:
Conflict Between DBCS Input Methods and Motif CATIA Accelerators
A conflict may occur between DBCS input methods and Motif CATIA accelerators.
For example, a Japanese input method may use the "Ctrl<Key>N" key combination to convert "kana" characters in Kanji. But in CATIA, the "Ctrl<Key>N" key combination is already used as the default Motif CATIA accelerator for selecting the File ->New menu item.
By default, Motif CATIA accelerators take priority.
To avoid such a conflict, you can customize either the input methods or the CATIA declaration file which controls the accelerators.
Customize your CATIA file as follows:
CATFRM.MENUBAR.FILE(1).ACCELERATOR = 'Ctrl<Key>n'; CATFRM.MENUBAR.FILE(1).ACCELERATORTEXT = 'Ctrl+N';
If you customize the CATIA.Assembly Modeling resource file in order to translate menu items, you have to modify your $HOME/.Xdefaults file in order to refer to the appropriate Motif fonts and then correctly display the translated texts:
CNEXT*fontList : catia.font.japan.sbcs;catia.font.japan.dbcs:with this line, Assembly application will use the Motif fonts referred by other CATIA interactive applications. (The fonts.alias mechanism described previously allow you to have a common declaration for all UNIX platform.)
You can also refer to other Motif fonts installed on your station, which you can select by using xlsfonts or xfontsel Motif commands. (In this case, your .Xdefaults file will be platform dependent.)
If you use the Tools/Quick Text (DR) item or the /quitxt command for Drafting DBCS Annotation creation or modification you have to declare appropriate Motif fonts in order to allow national character input in the Motif editor window.
The way to do this, is the following:
in your $HOME directory create a file named Dialog and containing the following lines :
CATDlgEditor.FontList="-sun-gothic-medium-r-normal--18-160-75-75-c-80-jisx0201.1976-0;\ -sun-gothic-medium-r-normal--18-160-75-75-c-160-jisx0208.1983-0:";
CATDlgEditor.FontList="-*16*ksc5601.1987-0;-*16*ksc5636-0:";
Euro character is supported as an Engineering Symbol, and as such follows the general rules applying to Engineering Symbols. A thirteenth engineering symbol has been introduced and is supported in the CATIA fonts which already support the other engineering symbols, and in the Motif CATIA environment files which already support the other engineering symbols.
As engineering symbol, the euro character input is managed through the key combination : Ctrl+Alt+F.
In order to prevent UNIX end-user using characters not available for NT platform supported with CATIA V5 product line, a new value for the CATIA.CHARACTER_RANGE_FOR_MEMBER_NAME parameter has been introduced : NT_COMPATIBILITY.
This value induces the same behaviour as the UNIX_COMPATIBILITY_EXCEPTED_CTRL value with the following differences :
WARNING
The default allocation size for models in CATIA.Assembly Modeling workbench ('catasm' or Tools/Assembly'... commands) can be tuned.
RECOMMENDATION
Tuning can be achieved setting the CATIA_MODEL_EXTEND_ALLOC_KBYTES environment variable,
USERS AFFECTED
Users of the Assembly workbench capabilities.
PRODUCT AFFECTED
CATIA.Assembly Modeling
WARNING
The management of .asm files generation from CATIA session has been improved.
RECOMMENDATION
The generation of Assembly files from CATIA session searches within the Search Order a file .asm matching exactly each model, and re-uses it if it is found.
USERS AFFECTED
Users of the Assembly workbench capabilities.
PRODUCT AFFECTED
CATIA.Assembly Modeling
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