Catia adapter - Reference Manual
Table of Contents
Introduction
The most relevant commands the adapter provides:
- Connect/Disconnect from a E-TM-10-25 server.
- Refresh the hub session.
- Reload the hub session.
- Auto reload with a specified timespan.
- Connect/Disconnect from a Catia instance.
- Refresh the Catia session.
- Mapping from a Catia element to an ElementDefinition/ElementUsage
- Mapping from a E-TM-10-25 ElementDefinition/ElementUsage to a Catia element
- Transfer the mapped things to the destinations.
Help Method
In the adapter every button and dropdown control have a tooltip. That means if you mouse over any of these some text will pop up with details on the overed control.
Screen Definitions and Operations
The main window, which is the biggest one of the Catia v5 adapter, shows a lot of information, therefore a minimum screen resolution of 800 pixels by 600 pixels. It is possible to resize the different inner panels to accommodate the view. It does not contain any window top menu, but some operations are available through context menu or by selecting tree items in the relevant panels.
Commands and Operations
All commands in the adapter are made available visually, that means there is a button or a context menu entry in front of the command. Also, some commands are run by selecting items in the different trees the main window can display.
Error Messages
The following messages can be displayed in the status bar or in the Catia data source panel:
- “Catia is not available”.
- Meaning that no running instance of Catia has been found. If you started the adapter with administrator privileges, Catia must also be run under the same privileges.
- “COMException”
- Any kind of COMException means that something went wrong on the Catia side. It can happen for example when trying to connect to a running instance of Catia that has no model loaded.