CATIA
CATIA
It was decided by the "Metals Raw Materials" working group to use EDMS documents as material reference to define completely the special St. Steel materials. By this way CERN will have a unique reference that will be used by the designers and by the purchasing department.
If you want to know what happen after the change will be done, there are two cases which are described in the link below.
From October 2014, the St. Steel materials change the name in CATIA and SmarTeam. You can also find the list of changes in this document.
It is possible to clear CATIA models from internal errors by:
- doing it one by one interactively,
- for several CO models simultaneously,
- for all models in a folder at once using a batch tool.
To follow step by step how to do it, please click on the link below.
Thanks to a simple operation, you can hide all planes displayed in the assembly.
If you want to see a description of the methodology, the link below will show you how to do that.
When Catia V5 files are manipulated, errors can appear, leading to troubles like ghost links. To solve this, the CATDUA (For Catia Data Upward Assistant) exist in the Catia V5 Desk This tool is powerful, but only treat documents one by one which can be painful for users, when dealing with assemblies. So, in order to facilitate the cleaning of models, CATDUAV5 Automation has been developed by support.
To learn more about this process, please refer to the document below.
A catalog 3D model is a 3D model of a commercial component, and/or a normalized element, or a usual element widely used at CERN.
There are four ways to get 3D models.
- From an existing template.
- From a downloaded STEP file.
- From zero.
- From a downloaded macro.
Here is a guideline to help you in the creation process ➞ catia-catalogs@cern.ch.
If you want to know more about this process, click on the link below.
In an assembly, it is possible to import some clouds of points from a scan, for example to compare the "As Built" with the "As Designed".
In the document below, you can find step by step how to import Points in CATIA.
The title block editor is the tool created by the CERN CAD Services in order to manage information and draw all the frames in the CATIA drawings. You can find this tool in the Drafting Workbench.
For more information, click on the link below.
In the document below you will find a detailed explanation of how to search for components in CATIA.
For presentations or tutorials, it may be useful to make a video from Catia. What are the integrated tool possibilities, and how do you set them up? Before starting, it is advisable to choose white as the background color and to avoid yellow for your geometry so as to limit the contrast problems.
In the link below we present you step by step how to do it.
Below in the document there are a few steps to debugging CATIA models.
Be careful, make sure that the "Save" operation worked well before to close SmarTeam and Catia V5.
If "YES" have a look on following advise below: In case of doubt ➞ HotLine 16 06 60
What is the procedure to follow when I have a CATProduct and I want to make a copy of it with the same components, or with some variations inside? Here we will explain it with an example in the link.
More: Copy documents
This FAQ is intended for people at CERN that are new to CATIA/SmarTeam and that would need access to the software or some help to get started. If you do not find what you are looking for on the document below, please contact catia.support@cern.ch.
Currently, there are specific groups configured in CMF ("NSC" groups) that allow the installation of CATIA/SmarTeam in a CAD Workstation. This division has been created with the purpose of cover the needs of different CAD users at CERN.
The purpose of the following document is to describe the various options available.
What is the difference between CATIA Supported and CATIA Unsupported NSC?
After creating a file in CATIA, it should be saved into the SmarTeam database. You can choose if you want to link it or not to a project in SmarTeam. This project link is not obligatory but if no other link is created (like Item to Project), the document will be findable only via the SmarTeam Search.
For more information how do it, please click on the link below.
In order to use CAM tools sometimes it is necessary to export files from SmarTeam to the Job folder structure.
For accessing this tool, it is needed to have:
- A CATIA account opened, “view only” accounts are valid to use the tool.
- Belong to the SmarTeam group “CAM users”.
- It is necessary to have written access to the folder \\cern.ch\dfs\Projects\MA_Project. The 2 first points can be granted by CAD Support, the 3rd point has to be granted by the CAM Team (e-group: en-mme-ma-cam).
To discover more on how to use it, please consult the following document.
More: Documents for CAM
Sometimes it is useful to compare two revisions of a document in CATIA. Due a limitation of the tool this is not possible to do it in a direct way (open) but there is a command and a workaround that can allow you to do this operation.
To learn more how to create it, please consult the following document.
The document below lists the requirements to be respected by the CERN contractors*, in terms of CATIA methodology. This is applicable only if the contractor works with the same CATIA Version and Release than CERN.
What are the prerequisites to respect when designing something for the CERN?
To cover those cases where detailed modelling could be a drawback, the simplification tool proposes to users a way to create a simpler representation of CAD models.
In order to understand more how to use the simplification tool, please consult the document below.
A tool is available in the Support Team to help you to import a large amount of Catia V5 models in SmarTeam. But these models must respect some rules.
Before contacting the CAD Support, you will have to ensure that the following points are respected.
Consult the document below to understand more how to import CATIA models to SmarTeam.
To ease the collaborative work with SmarTeam, there are some steps to validate before your CERN departure. In order to learn more about them, please check the document below and complete the check list presented before you leave CERN.
Before creating the drawings of an assembly, we will have to put in place the Bill of Material. To do so, we use at CERN the BOM Compare tool, which should help us to put in place the ITEM structure used for the Bill of Material.
In order to understand what a BOW Compare is, you access the Quick User Guide to learn about it in the document below.
More: What is BOM Compare?