Global Refresh

In most enterprises, design engineers work concurrently to design their products. Working concurrently often means that they are responsible for subassemblies which they will all gather later on to constitute their final assembly.

Some designers need to reference to the latest documents available they are not responsible for. In fact, a certain number of these documents will be delivered by other designers in real time.

Because they need to benefit from the most recent versions of these documents, SmarTeam CATIA Integration provides a dedicated tool to help them work in a collaborative environment: the Global Refresh capability enables them to update their CATIA sessions to reflect the latest versions of the documents as saved in the SmarTeam vault. Among the benefits provided by this new tool is a significant rework costs reduction.

The following illustration shows when a Global Refresh Operation is to be performed:

In this section, you will find the following information: