Part Document 

This tab deals with these categories of options:

When Creating Parts 

Create an axis system

Select this option if you wish to create a three-axis system which origin point is defined by the intersection of the three default planes that is plane xy, plane yz, and plane zx. When the CATPart document is open, the axis system is displayed both in the geometry and in the specification tree. For more information about Axis System, refer to the Part Design User's Guide.

By default, this option is not selected.

Create a geometrical set

Check this option if you wish to create a geometrical set as soon as you create a new part. From V5R15 onward, geometrical sets created with this option on, are located above Part Bodies in the specification tree.

For more information about geometrical sets, refer to Generative Shape Design User's Guide.

By default, this option is not selected.

Note: Data contained in the CGR format are saved within the CATPart format when you are saving your part in order to improve performances when working in Assembly Design workbench.

Create an ordered geometrical set

Check this option if you wish to create an ordered geometrical set as soon as you create a new part. For more information about ordered geometrical sets, refer to Generative Shape Design User's Guide.

By default, this option is not selected.

Create a 3D work support

Check this option if you wish to create a 3D work on support as soon as you create a new part.

By default, this option is not selected.

Display the New Part dialog box

Check this option if you wish to display the New Part dialog box as soon as you create a new part (using Start >Mechanical Design or File > New... part).
This dialog box lets you name the new part and access options defining whether you wish to:

Note that you can also access these options by using Tools>Options as described above. For more information about the New part dialog box, refer to Part Design User's Guide.
By default, this option is selected.

Hybrid Design

Enable hybrid design inside part bodies and bodies

Check this option if you wish you to work in a hybrid design environment, that is with bodies that can include wireframe and surface elements.

Note:

If your CATPart document already contains traditional bodies, that is bodies that cannot include surface nor wireframe elements, the application identifies them with a gray icon:

If the option is deactivated, then on insertion of a traditional body (body not allowed to contain wireframe nor surface elements), icons identifying existing bodies likely to include wireframe and surface elements turn yellow.


See hybrid design for reference information. See also the Miscellaneous list identifying icons available in the Part Design workbench.

By default, this option is selected.

Enable hybrid design for parameters and relations inside part bodies and bodies

When the option is selected, you can locate parameters and relations you are creating into the current set (hybrid body or ordered geometrical set). A dialog box always asks you to confirm the location you want.

If you do not want to locate the new parameter or relation into the current set, just click 'No' in the dialog box. It will be created in a Relations node.

By default, this option is not selected.

Locate wireframe and surface elements

  • In a body

  • In a geometrical set

When the option described above is on, meaning that you have chosen to work in a hybrid environment, you still can then choose between inserting wireframe and surface elements within bodies by checking In a body, or within geometrical sets by checking In a geometrical set. For more information about geometrical sets, refer to the Generative Shape Design User's Guide.

By default, the In a body option is selected.
 

Even if Enable hybrid design inside part bodies and bodies is cleared, the Insert in New Body capability ignores the setting. It  creates a body which type (hybrid or not) is always the same as the body from which you selected features to place them into the new body.

Color on Import Management


You can choose whether or not to import graphic properties on the feature which is imported using As Result, or As Result With Link. Graphic properties include color, and opacity.

All Colors: each color visible in 3D is reported on its corresponding face

The imported feature inherits all the graphic properties on the reference feature on all the corresponding faces.

Note: If once selected while performing import with As Result With Link, the graphic properties of the resultant part cannot be removed or reset. However, you can change these by imposing new graphic properties.

By default, this option is not selected.

Manage the color transfer

A graphic property modification on the reference feature does not break the synchronization status between the reference feature and the imported feature. You must update the referenced feature to apply the new graphic properties of the referenced feature onto the import.

If All Colors or Color of overloaded faces options are selected, the graphic properties synchronization on import may overload the manually set graphic properties. All graphic properties with priority less than sub-element are overloaded.

Color on import management property is editable

Color on import management property is editable option determines whether the part editability for synchronization is available or not. If you select this option, then the Color on Import management area is available for edition in the Colors tab on part properties.

Thus the color synchronization editability defines whether the imported feature synchronization mode can be edited through Colors tab on part properties.

By default, this option is not selected.

Note:
  • You can select either All colors or Manage the color transfer at a time and not both.
  • If Manage the color transfer is selected, both Color of overloaded faces , and Color of features are selected.
  • Manage the color transfer is selected only if either Color of overloaded faces or Color of features are selected.
  • You can select both Color of overloaded faces , and Color of features at a time and customize your imported feature as required.
 

Graphic properties management



Use Advanced Graphic Properties Management
Use Advanced Graphic Properties Management check box enables Advanced Graphic Properties Management algorithm on the newly created 3D parts.
Existing 3D Parts are not modified by selecting this option.
 By default, this check box is cleared.

 Default graphic properties are editable in Advanced Graphic Properties Management context

This check box lets you modify the default graphic properties of a 3D Part if it uses the advanced graphic properties management algorithm.
The default graphic properties are available in the Default graphic properties area in the Color tab of the Properties dialog box.
To modify the default graphic properties, right-click the 3D part in the tree and select Properties > Color.
  • The Color management area in the Color tab of the Properties dialog box displays whether the part is using the old V5 color management or the advanced graphic properties management.
    To view this, right-click the 3D part in the tree and select Properties > Color.
  • The Default graphic properties and the Color inheritance management areas in the in the Color tab of the Properties dialog box are available only if the 3D part uses the advanced graphic properties management.

In the Knowledge Base
Color management in the 3D shape for Import