Catia material catalog file

The checked in copies of the CATMaterial files and of the supporting image files should be copied from the administrator workspace, a central location that is referenced by users during design. PTC recommends that the location be a common location for all users — users must define this location either in the preferences on the server or in the wgmclient.

Check in the CATMaterial to the workspace. Save in the network the workspace local directory corresponding to the CATMaterial. Use the following preference in your wgmclient. You only need to define the top level folder where the CATMaterial files reside, all the subfolders are included.

Set the CATMaterial network directory in other folders. You must enter all subdirectories in the search order if any are present in the network location.

Do this by clicking the Add Tree button to recursively add all subfolders to the search path. Set the default material catalog path to point to the.

An administrator is responsible for checking in catalogs. Upon checkin, any family table CATParts contained in the catalog have instances resolved to a file. Catalogs with both normal and family table CATParts are supported. If a catalog contains any part families, the families have their instances resolved and the generic and instances are checked into Windchill. In Windchill , the catalog has a reference link to the generic table of the family.

Catalogs are stored in Windchill as a life cycle-managed document. Any members contained in the catalog are stored in Windchill as an EPMDocument, and are considered a required dependent. Relationships between the catalog and its members are managed in Windchill by a reference link between the EPMDocument of the catalog, and the EPMDocument catalog member. Since catalogs contain large amounts of parts and families, you can expect the checkin to take a substantial amount of time.

However, copying the catalog and its dependents to the workspace local directory before performing the checkin can reduce the time. Checking out a catalog or adding a catalog to the workspace adds the entire catalog to the shared workspace. Catalogs generally contain many CAD documents, and checkouts take longer than many similarly sized assemblies.

Since catalogs are very large sets of data, PTC recommends that you do not remove a catalog and its members from the shared workspace. An administrator should initiate an update from the client on the shared workspace if members of a catalog have been changed in Windchill. Updating refreshes the workspace with the latest version of any of the documents in that workspace. You can automatically download any updates of a catalog and its members in Windchill to a workspace by setting up a script that initiates automatic synchronization between Windchill and the shared catalog folder.

Follow these steps:. The catalog. Duplicate this tag to specify additional catalogs if needed in the same shared workspace. Set up the scheduled task. Make changes and check in the catalog and its members within the shared workspace directory. The catalog is updated without having to update out-of-sync components. Synchronize the catalog, either manually or automatically.

Retrieve the catalog in the CAD tool. Manually or automatically update the content from the CAD tool to the shared workspace for the catalog.