Preventing the Saving of External Links

When the user creates a Drawing of a Product, generates balloons and saves the drawing to SmarTeam, the CATIA integration creates links of each Part of the Product that is also linked to the Drawing.

SDE normally uses the balloon feature for drafting interactivity. Therefore. when a SmarTeam Save is performed, many links are generated between the actual Part and the Drawing that is saved in SmarTeam. However, according to the SDE LifeCycle Rule Setup, when the Part is checked out, the drawing is also Checked Out, which may not be necessary. The functionality described below explains how to avoid saving this link in SmarTeam.

  Balloons can be created on the drawing using the Balloon command in the Annotations Toolbar in Drafting.

When 3D associativity is set to Instance Name or Part Number, an external link of type Attribute is generated between the Part and Drawing as shown in the example below:

When 3D associativity is set to Numbering no additional link is created between the Part and the Drawing as shown in the example below:

  To implement this functionality, the system configuration key CATIA.CreateDrawingAttributeLinks should be set accordingly:

Name of Key: CATIA.CreateDrawingAttributeLinks

Description: Control the saving of an Attribute link on a drawing document to be saved in SmarTeam.

Possible Values: True/False

True = Save Attribute Links on a Drawing document to SmarTeam (default)
False = Do not save Attribute Links on Drawing document to SmarTeam