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In our last article you saw how to create a Customized Environment. This
article is in addition to that and this explains how to Set Standards of the
Drafting workbench and how to lock the User Settings.
After adopting CATIA as their technological solution and building the design or R
& D on around CATIA, companies tend to standardize everything. For example
they want to standardize the way the GUI appears, the standards used in drafting,
color of entities, fonts and so on. This needs an initial brainstorming in creating
standards specific to their company and then customizing CATIA according to
those standards.
This article aims at educating those who are ready to define their own working
methodologies & standards for CATIA.
Create a folder in the name of say EDS on say desktop. Refer Fig A01
Inside EDS folder create two more folders in the name of say CATCollectionStandards
& CATreferenceSettingPath. Refer Fig A02
Fig A02 Creating required folders
Copy the complete path using the contextual menu. Fig A04
Fig A04 Copying path from the address bar
Go to Start > Programs > CATIA > Tools > Environment Editor V5R16. Fig A05
The Environment Editor dialog box is now invoked. Environment Editor Message
will display a message click on OK button to proceed further. Refer Fig A06.
Fig A06 Environment Editor Message
Again you will get Environment Editor Message click on Yes to confirm that you want
to modify the environment. Refer Fig A07
Follow the same step and give the path of CATReferenceSettingpath variable also.
Refer Fig A 11
Type cnext –admin at the command prompt and press Enter from the keyboard. Refer
Fig A 15
Note: Please not that if you have only CATIA V5 R16 installed on your system then you
can only type cnext –admin at the Run dialog box. To invoke the Run dialog box select
Start > Run.
Above 3 steps are required only if you have multiple environments on your system and
you want to set the standards for any specific environment.
Now you can see that CATIA has opened. The Adminstration Mode dialog box
confirms that you are running CATIA in administration mode. Choose the OK button to
continue. Refer Fig A 16
The License Manager error dialog box is now invoked. For the first time you will be
prompted to select the suitable license. Choose the OK button for now. Refer Fig A 17
License Warning dialog box is now invoked prompting to Restart the session to take
the settings into account. Choose the OK button in the License Warning dialog box
and then License Manager Dialog box. Close the current CATIA session and start
CATIA again. Refer Fig A 19
Next step is to lock the user settings. To do so, go to Tools > Options. Refer Fig A 21
Using the Administrative locks you can lock the settings as desired. Refer Fig A23. In
the General Tab of the Options dialog box select the No automatic backup option from
the Data Save area and click on the green Administrative lock once it will change to
brown color. Likewise change the user interface style to P2 and lock the setting. Go on
locking the settings as per requirement and once you are done click on the OK button to
confirm the changes made.
As we know that there are some predefined standards (e.g. ANSI, ISO…etc) in CATIA.
To set our own standard you need to select a Reference Standard and then modify from
that Reference Standard. In our case we are selecting the ISO.xml. To do so, select the
ISO.xml option from the File drop down menu. Refer Fig A27
From the left hand side select the Thread standard. On the right hand side it will show
you the default thread representation. You can now change the same to Circle. Likewise
go on changing the standards for other parameters also like Text, Annotations,
Dimensions etc….. Refer Fig A 29
Copy the EDS.xml standard file from the location where it was saved and paste it to the
following location:
C:\Program Files\Dassault Systemes\B16\intel_a\resources\standard\drafting
Refer Fig A 31.
The New Drawing Creation dialog box is now invoked. To select the standard that you
have just created click on the modify button. Fig A 33
You can now see that the Standard with which you will create the drafting is EDS (i.e the
one which we created just now). Refer Fig A 35