Optimal CATIA PLM Usability

When working with ENOVIA LCA, a new mode ensures that you only create data in CATIA that can be correctly saved in ENOVIA.

ENOVIA LCA offers two different storage modes: Workpackage (Document kept - Publications Exposed) and Explode (Document not kept). Workpackages let you organize data efficiently in easily manageable units. They also facilitate concurrent engineering.

Structure Preliminary Layout

In Structure Preliminary Layout (SPL), data is saved corrected in both modes, however, Explode mode is the recommended mode since this mode lets you manage Structure Preliminary Layout objects individually in ENOVIA. All Structure Preliminary commands are thus available at all times.

Structure Functional Design

Structure Functional Design (SFD) has been configured to work in the Workpackage mode.

The Structure Functional Design workbench is set up such that the user cannot create functional objects without first creating a panel system. When first entering the workbench, all other commands are therefore unavailable. The panel system has been defined as an ENOVIA LCA workpackage.

Ship Structure Detail Design

Ship Structure Detail Design (SDD) has been configured to work in the Workpackage mode.

In Ship Structure Functional Design, the block scheme and paneling system have been defined as ENOVIA LCA workpackages.

The safe save mode means that certain commands (Automatic Connection, Manual Connection, Connection Body and Mitering) are unavailable (i.e. grayed). You cannot make connections or miter cuts between two different workpackages.
Recommendation: Open the paneling system in a new window and create connections within the same workpackage.

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