Basic Concepts - CAD/CAM Laboratory
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Basic Concepts - CAD/CAM Laboratory
Basic Concepts NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AVIATION RESEARCH Wichita State University Revision 15 Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. www.cadcamlab.org None of this material may be reproduced, used or disclosed, in part or in whole, without the expressed written permission of: National Institute for Aviation Research Wichita State University Wichita, KS Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. www.cadcamlab.org ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 ENOVIA LCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Manual Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Logging into ENOVIA LCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 ENOVIA Portal Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Portal Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Workbook Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Customizing the ENOVIA Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Customizing Workbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Creating Custom Workbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 General ENOVIA Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Product Class Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Standard Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Product Class Editor Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Properties Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 1 – Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 2 – Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Product Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Where Used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Hide & Show Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Collapse / Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Presentation Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Contexts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Generic Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Part Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Alternate Parts Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Where Used Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Accessing the Part Editor from the Product Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Send To CATIA V5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Send To CATIA V5 as Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Sending Generic Components to CATIA V5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Send Documents & Part References to CATIA V5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Opening Non-CATIA documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 ENOVIA Interoperability Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 CATIA Interoperability Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 © Wichita State University Table of Contents, Page i ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 DMU Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Attributes Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Configuration Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Discipline Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Volume Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Zone Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Simultaneous DMU Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 ENOVIA Search Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Appendix A - ENOVIA Portal Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Product Editor Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Part Editor Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 Table of Contents, Page ii ©Wichita State University ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Introduction ENOVIA LCA Concepts Upon completion of this course the student should have a full understanding of the following topics: - Log in and Log out of the ENOVIA Portal - Understand the different object types of ENOVIA and their function - Understand and utilize different applications within the ENOVIA Portal - Understand the Product Class Structure - Understand the Product Structure - Send product definition data from ENOVIA to CATIA - Have the ability to find objects in the database © Wichita State University Introduction, Page 3 ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 ENOVIA LCA ENOVIA LCA (Enterprise inNOvation VIA Life Cycle Applications) can best be defined as a database that holds all the data related to a deliverable product. This data can be in the form of CAD files, engineering documents, trade studies, etc. Since ENOVIA holds all data pertinent to a product, it also acts as the interoperability agent between the ENOVIA database and the associated application the data is derived from. This allows for a single source for data storage and retrieval. ENOVIA LCA as a whole can be considered an object-oriented database. This means that all “things” put in the database are treated as a single object with attributes. Being an object-oriented database allows ENOVIA LCA to hold all different types of files. All objects in ENOVIA LCA will have a specific object type. There are a number of key object types that will be discussed throughout this book. ENOVIA LCA (ENOVIA for short) as an application is actually made up of three different parts. There is an ENOVIA database which holds all the meta data and attributes for all the documents, files, and parts stored in the vault. The database also manages users, permissions, and other ENOVIA specific objects such as product classes, actions, change orders, and other additional items. The ENOVIA vault is the physical file storage location held on the server. The vault will contain an encrypted form of all the data managed by the database. The last part of ENOVIA LCA is the portal. This will be what you use to gain access to the database and vault for data input, retrieval, and searching. The difference between the database and vault will be transparent to the user. ENOVIA is also one of many tools utilized to manage a product’s lifecycle. This management process is termed Product Life cycle Management (PLM). All product data managed by ENOVIA is placed into a life cycle stage, and then as the data matures, the life cycle is promoted. Once the part is ready for production, the product data will be passed through a release process to facilitate the final checks of that part. As a part gets changed for future needs, new revisions are created and again, the process will start over. Eventually the product data will be placed into retirement, where again, ENOVIA will handle the retirement of the product and all related documents. All told, ENOVIA will manage a product from the initial conceptual drawings and sketches, through 3D modeling, until the retirement of the product. Introduction, Page 4 ©Wichita State University ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Manual Format It is important to understand the format of the manual in order to use it most effectively. This manual is designed to be used along with an instructor; however, you will need to do a lot of reading as well, in order to fully understand ENOVIA LCA. The exercises in this book will list steps for you to complete, along with explanations that try to inform you what you have just done and what you are getting ready to do. The actual steps are in bold type and the information that follows the steps is for your benefit. Anything that appears in italics refers to a message ENOVIA provides—this includes information in pull-down menus, pop-up windows and other messages. An example of a step and its explanation are shown below (note: normally the lines will not be there): Select a location to the right of the origin. This specifies the other end point of the line. You will continue specifying locations in order to complete your profile. It should appear similar to the diagram shown below. As you can see, the desired action blends in with the text except that it appears in bold. The information following the step explains what that step accomplished and where you are going next. It is important for you to read this information to help in your understanding of ENOVIA. Also, you will find that the exercises build upon themselves. Later exercises often assume you know how to do certain steps which have been covered in earlier exercises. If you did not quite pick up what you needed to know from an exercise, you will probably wish to review it several times before moving on to the more advanced sections. As you progress through the manual, it expects that you are learning and therefore you are able to do a lot more with fewer steps. Eventually, you are expected to be able to perform actions without any steps. © Wichita State University Introduction, Page 5 ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Logging into ENOVIA LCA ENOVIA utilizes a username and password database that is generally independent of the username and password you log into your computer with. Before logging into ENOVIA, you must have a username and password defined. Your account will also have an associated role. A role defines what a user can and cannot do in the database. This includes not only read and write access to the database, but also functionality access such as the ability to perform tasks in the database. All three parts of your login credentials must be supplied in the login screen before you have access to the ENOVIA database. Take a moment and look at the login screen for ENOVIA. Username This will be the username provided to you. The username might, or might not, be the same as the account you logged into the computer with. Password This is the password used with your username. Language This allows you to choose between various languages used in ENOVIA. Host The host field allows you to choose between various ENOVIA servers. Generally, there will only be one host set up, however, if you have multiple ENOVIA servers running on your network, all of them can be accessible though the portal. Check to choose role at logon This allows you to choose or change your role within ENOVIA. Enter your username and password, then click Logon. Once you click logon, you will be prompted for a role and workbook. Introduction, Page 6 ©Wichita State University ENOVIA LCA Concepts Choose a Role ENOVIA® V5R15 This will display the list of roles available with your login ID. Choose a Workbook This defines the workbook project that you will utilize. When used in a group setting, this will allow your group to view the same data and make things more uniform. Generally, the first time you log into ENOVIA, you will have to define the Role and Workbook that you want to use for this session. Anytime you wish to change roles, you will have to log out of ENOVIA and log back in. The roles defined with your user account are set up by an ENOVIA administrator. If you find that you are unable to perform functions in the database that you need to have access to, you will have to have an ENOVIA administrator adjust the roles associated with your user ID. Choose the role TRAINEE.ENOVIATRAINING.DEFAULT. This will define the default training role for your work. Change the Workbook to DefaultProject if not already there. For now, the default project will be used. Click Apply Role and Project. This will log you into the ENOVIA portal. © Wichita State University Introduction, Page 7 ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 ENOVIA Portal Screen This is the initial, default screen for ENOVIA. There are several key areas that need to pointed out before proceeding. A Portal Toolbar It is always present and holds the few fundamental portal tools available B Visible Workbooks Workbooks contain various sets of tools for working in ENOVIA. Each workbook contains a unique set of tools. The highlighted workbook icon will be the current workbook shown in the Active Workbook area. C Active Workbooks These will dynamically change based on the current, active workbook. The branches and icons in this area are different applications that can be used with the ENOVIA portal. D Messages This area will give various messages about the portal environment. Most messages are irrelevant, however, at times, pertinent messages to the portal session will be displayed here. E Active Application As you activate the various tools from the active workbook, they will display here F Active Application Windows Allows you to switch between active and inactive applications. Introduction, Page 8 ©Wichita State University ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Portal Toolbar The portal toolbar holds the most basic of portal options. Take a moment to take a quick look at the portal toolbar icons. Home This icon will take you to the home page set in the portal settings Stop This icon will stop the ENOVIA Portal during large queries and searches. This will not stop database transactions such as saving and opening. Help This opens the help documentation Settings This icon will allow you to change the default behavior of the ENOVIA portal Exit This exits the portal session and releases the ENOVIA license Expand / Collapse These icons will either expand (the right arrow) or collapse (the left arrow) the toolbar and active workbook © Wichita State University Introduction, Page 9 ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Workbook Toolbar The workbook tool bar holds all the various groupings of tools within ENOVIA. The workbook toolbar can be customized to show as many or few icons as you feel necessary. You can also add workbooks to the toolbar to allow for customization of the tools in ENOVIA. Take a moment to go through some of the various workbooks in ENOVIA. Note: The order of the workbooks is irrelevant since they can be rearranged. Search Tree The search tree allows for various searches outside of the ENOVIA database Remote File Tree The remote file tree displays the folder and files located on the server under your user profile Declarative File Tree The declarative file tree, when set up, will allow you to have access to folders and files either on the local or remote file servers Introduction, Page 10 ©Wichita State University ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Local File Tree The local file tree displays the local mapped drives and folders. Administration This allows for administration of the local ENOVIA portal installation. Only administrators can utilize the tools within the administration workbook. Effects Browser There is no documentation on this functionality. Electrical Design There is no documentation on this functionality. © Wichita State University Introduction, Page 11 ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 VPM Web Access Allows for viewing of data from a VPM server. ENOVIA Home The ENOVIA Home is the hub of the ENOVIA portal. Under typical user use, the ENOVIA home workbook is by far the most important workbook. Take a moment to look at the various ENOVIA home links and applications in those links. Introduction, Page 12 ©Wichita State University ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 User Services Publish Subscribe This application allows you to view elements that you have subscribed to, as well as what events have happened in the database. Settings This allows you to define editor settings. Lifecycle This application allows you to view the lifecycles of the various ENOVIA objects Program Management Programs The programs editor allows you to define milestones for a project or program in ENOVIA. Categories This allows you to create various categories and specifications for products. Rules The rules editor allows you to create rules for the categories and specifications. Change Management Actions The actions editor allows for the creation and viewing of actions, or specific units of work. Change Requests This editor allows you to generate change requests for changes to a part or product. Change Orders The change orders will allow you to generate the authorized workstatements resulting from a change request. © Wichita State University Introduction, Page 13 ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Content Management Documents Allows you to create and manage document objects and insert document files into the database. Catalogs The catalogs editor will allow you to create and manage CATIA catalogs Standard Parts The standard parts editor will allow you to work with standard part catalogs stored in the ENOVIA vault My Docs Shows all documents that you currently own My Checked Out Docs Displays all the documents that you currently have checked out to work on Engineering Life Cycle Product Classes The product class editor allows you to access the various product classes, or folders, that contain the products stored in ENOVIA Products The product editor allows you to view the products and product trees stored in ENVOIA Components The components editor allows you to create and edit generic components within the products Introduction, Page 14 ©Wichita State University ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Parts The parts editor allows you to access part references and documents associated with the part reference directly DMU Search This allows you to apply a DMU filter on a product. DMU Filters can consist of attribute, configuration, or volume filters, as well as others. Graph Compare This allows you to graphically compare two different product specifications for a particular product Supply Chain Management Supplier Chain ENOVIA Search Tree Scroll Arrows © Wichita State University This allows you to export and import data into the database from other ENOVIA and non-ENOVIA based installations The ENOVIA Search tree allows you to query and search the entire database for objects. The scroll arrows will appear at the top and bottom of the workbook toolbar to allow you to scroll through the additional workbooks. If you have more workbooks visible than what the portal is able to show on the screen, then you will need to select one of the scroll arrows to view the toolbars. Introduction, Page 15 ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 This page is intentionally left blank. Introduction, Page 16 ©Wichita State University ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Customizing the ENOVIA Portal Customizing Workbooks Adding or removing the visible workbooks is a good fundamental customization that can be performed. By creating a custom workbook, you will have a storage location for bookmarks, as well as the ability to create a custom set of tools to help aid you in your day to day ENOVIA work. With the third mouse button, select on the WorkBook Toolbar. This will display the contextual menu for the workbooks. Take a moment to look them over. Note: You select on one of the icons to get all of the options. If you right mouse select on a blank area, you will only receive a partial list. New Workbook This will create a new workbook to allow you to save bookmarks or place links in the workbook Customize Workbooks This will allow you to turn off or remove workbooks from the workbook toolbar Save Workbooks This commits all changes to the ENOVIA server Delete This will delete the selected workbook Change Icon This will allow you to change the icon of the selected workbook Reset This resets the selected workbook back to its original configuration Share This will share the workbook so that others may be able to utilize the same workbook configuration © Wichita State University Customizations, Page 17 ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 With the workbook contextual menu up, select Customize Workbooks. This will display the Customize WorkBook List window. The list on the left is the available workbooks that you can add to your current workbook list. Uncheck the Visible checkbox for all items except ENOVIA Home and ENOVIA Search Tree. Select OK when done. This will change your ENOVIA Portal to only show the ENOVIA Home and ENOVIA Search Tree workbooks. Customizations, Page 18 ©Wichita State University ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 With the right mouse button, select on the Workbooks toolbar, then select Customize Workbooks. Again, the Customize WorkBook List will appear. Turn on visibility for the Remote File Tree, Declarative File Tree, and Local File Tree. Select OK when done. This will turn on the three file trees. Since the ENOVIA Home and ENOVIA Search Tree are the two most important, you generally want just those two workbooks available. You can also remove the workbooks to remove them from the list. © Wichita State University Customizations, Page 19 ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Go to the Customize WorkBook List window. Remember, you will have to right click on the workbook toolbar, then select on Customize Workbooks. Select on the Remote File Tree workbook from the current workbook list. This will activate the Remove button. Select Remove, then select OK when done. This will remove the Remote File Tree from the list of current workbooks. Notice this removes the Remote File Tree from the workbook toolbar. Go to the Customize Workbook List window, then select on Remote File Tree from the Default Workbook List. When you select on items from the Default WorkBook List, the Add-> button will activate. Customizations, Page 20 ©Wichita State University ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Select Add->. This will add the Remote File Tree back to the list of current workbooks. Notice something different? When items are added back to the workbook list, they will be uniquely named with the current username, and a dash number at the end. The item will also appear at the bottom of the list. Right click on the Local File Tree from the current workbook list. This will bring up the contextual menu for the items in the workbook list. Select Move Up. This will move the Local File Tree above the Declarative File Tree. Note: You can also drag the various workbooks up and down in the list to re-arrange them. © Wichita State University Customizations, Page 21 ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Since the ENOVIA Home and ENOVIA Search Tree are the two most important workbooks, you will want to go ahead and turn off all workbooks except those two. Turn off all workbooks but the ENOVIA Home and ENOVIA Search Tree and select OK. How you do this is up to you. You can either turn off visibility or you can remove them from the list. You should only end up with the two icons in your ENOVIA Portal when done. Since the ENOVIA home and ENOVIA search tree are the most used workbooks, it is generally a good idea not to clutter the workbook area with unnecessary workbooks. If you find that you ever need another workbook, you can always turn the visibility of that workbook back on or add the necessary workbenches if they were removed from the current workbench list. Customizations, Page 22 ©Wichita State University ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Creating Custom Workbooks There are times when you want to create a workbook just for items you use frequently. This is where a custom workbook comes in handy. You can also create new items in the workbook, such as bookmarks. Right click on the workbook toolbar, then select New WorkBook. This will create a new workbook in the list. As soon as you create the workbook, you can rename it. For the moment, you will look at renaming the workbook after creation. Select anywhere in the blank area on the WorkBook Toolbar. This will create the new workbook. Notice that the icon is the same as the ENOVIA Home icon. This can be a cause for confusion. Right click on your new workbook, then select Change Icon. This will allow you to change the icon to something unique. This book will utilize the yellow worker icon. You may choose to use something else. If you do, please remember that your icon will not match the icon used in the book. Select the yellow worker icon. Select OK when done. This will give the workbook a unique icon. Remember, you may choose to use a different icon, however, your icon will not match the icon used in the book. © Wichita State University Customizations, Page 23 ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Now that the icon is unique, take a quick look at renaming it. Right mouse click on the new workbook, then select Rename from the contextual menu. This will display the rename field so you may enter a new name. Change the name to My Custom WorkBook. This will give your workbook a different name. Select on your custom workbook. Notice there is a links folder, however, there are no links available. When a custom workbook is created, you will have to add links as necessary. Most custom workbooks are used for bookmarks and other non-generic items. Since you are not ready to create bookmarks just yet, you will add a few links from the ENOVIA Home workbook into your custom links workbook. Customizations, Page 24 ©Wichita State University ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Select on the ENOVIA Home workbook. Expand the Engineering Life Cycle folder. If you remember from the introduction, the Engineering Life Cycle branch holds most of the tools for working directly with the data in the ENOVIA database. Right click on Product Classes. This will display the contextual menu for the Product Class Editor. Since all of the applications within the ENOVIA Home workbook work the same way, take a moment to look at the various options available. Activate Launches the application Modify Bookmark Modifies the path the link points to. You do not ever want to modify the bookmark on a default application, otherwise you might not be able to run the application. Modifying the bookmark is reserved for custom ENOVIA applications, or custom links placed in the workbook. Copy / Cut Copies or cuts the link from the workbook. Once copied or cut, it can be pasted back into another folder. Delete Removes the item from the list. This option is similar to a cut, however, it does not allow for a paste. Rename Renames the application. Keep in mind, if you rename your applications, although it may make more sense to you, they will differ from the defaults, and thus may make support more difficult. © Wichita State University Customizations, Page 25 ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Select Copy. This will copy the Product Classes application to the clipboard. Select your custom workbook from the workbooks toolbar. Right click on the Links folder at the top of your custom workbook. This will display the contextual menu for the folder. Select Paste. This will paste the link for the Product Classes into your custom workbook. Add one more link to your custom workbook. Switch back to the ENOVIA Home workbook. Expand the User Services branch. Right click on the Publish Subscribe application, then select Copy. This will copy the Publish Subscribe application. Paste the Publish Subscribe application into your workbook. Remember, you will have to select on your Links branch, then right click to paste the application. As you work through this book, you will find there are certain applications that you will utilize more than others. If you find you would like to create more links in your workbook, please feel free to do so. Be sure to keep in mind, your workbook will be different from other people’s workbooks. When initially learning, it is generally best to keep from creating a lot of custom workbooks, but rather to use the generic workbooks. This allows you to better help others and receive help while utilizing the same workbook structure. Customizations, Page 26 ©Wichita State University ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 General ENOVIA Navigation Now you are ready to take a look at some general navigation in ENOVIA. It is useful to be able to adjust window pane sizes, as well as adjust the number of windows visible. Select on the ENOVIA home workbook, then expand the Engineering Life Cycle branch by selecting the plus next to it. Since the engineering life cycle branch is where you will perform most of your work, you will look at activating and closing a few of the applications found there. Right click on the product classes application, then select Activate. The product classes application will be discussed in the next section, for now, you are just working on opening and closing applications. This will launch the product classes application into the active application zone. © Wichita State University Customizations, Page 27 ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 With the application active, now take a look at manipulating the display to make the application more visible. Select the collapse icon in the portal toolbar. This will collapse the portal toolbar and the active workbook to allow for more room for the active application. Many times, you will find it useful to collapse the portal toolbar to have extra space for the applications running. Select the expand icon in the portal toolbar. the active workbook back out. This will expand the portal toolbar and You can also just change the size of your active workbook area by dragging the dividing bar. You will try that next. Customizations, Page 28 ©Wichita State University ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Point your cursor to the bar between the active application and the active workbook. Your cursor should turn to a double arrow slider icon as shown in the image. Select and drag the bar to the left. This will shrink the active workbook area, as well as the ENOVIA portal toolbar. Note: Exact placement of the slider is not necessary. Your ENOVIA portal may not appear exactly as shown based on placement. You can also slide the bars in the middle of the application windows. Feel free to practice moving the window areas around. Slide the active workbook area back out until all the text in the ENOVIA home workbook is visible. It is generally a good idea to be able to read all of the text. © Wichita State University Customizations, Page 29 ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Activate the products application. All you will need to do is right click on the products branch under the engineering life cycle folder then select activate. This will activate the product editor and place it on top of the product class editor. Notice the product editor is placed in the active application windows area at the bottom of the ENOVIA Portal screen. A running list of all active applications are kept here. Notice the name of the applications are shortened. The names will always be decreased to the same size, regardless of how large you make your ENOVIA screen. Select the Product Class Editor from the active application window area. This is shown in the image below. Customizations, Page 30 ©Wichita State University ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 This will change your active application back to the product class editor. You can switch between as many applications as necessary. Now you will take a look at some of the general portal settings. © Wichita State University Customizations, Page 31 ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 General Settings The general settings allow you to change some of the fundamental and generic settings for ENOVIA. Select the Settings icon from the ENOVIA portal toolbar. general settings for the ENOVIA portal. This will display the Take a moment to look at some of the settings. Number of views Defines the number of active applications displayed simultaneously. You can only choose between one and two views. Layout Defines the layout of the views, either horizontal or vertical Sound Turns sounds on or off in ENOVIA Home URL This defines the web page that ENOVIA launches when you select the ENOVIA home icon Start with Home Page Defines if the home page will be displayed on startup or not Unit for Distances Defines the default units ENOVIA will use Default date style Defines how dates will be displayed Context information Displays information about the currently logged in user, server, project, and other session information Proxy Configuration Allows the configuration of a proxy server to be defined. This is for using ENOVIA outside of a company firewall and proxy server. Embedded Browser Defines the browser used when in ENOVIA Customizations, Page 32 ©Wichita State University ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Change the Number of views to 2. This will change the active application area to show two windows. Select OK when done. This will change the window to show both the product class editor and the product editor simultaneously. The size of each window can be adjusted by dragging the solid bar between the two active applications. Activate the Components application from the ENOVIA home workbook. Notice which window it covered up. The component editor is in the left hand window. Now watch what happens when you launch another editor. © Wichita State University Customizations, Page 33 ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Activate the Parts application from the ENOVIA home workbook. The parts editor activates on top of the product editor (the right hand window). Select on the product editor (Product E...-1) from the active application windows area. If you remember right, the product editor was on the right hand pane before you activated the part editor. Notice where the product editor is now? The product editor is in the left hand application area. Why did the window move from the right window to the left window? When working with two windows, ENOVIA will always replace the inactive window with the new application. This means that since the product editor is active (highlighted in the active application windows area), the next window selected, or the next application activated will replace the part editor since it is not active. Test this theory. Customizations, Page 34 ©Wichita State University ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Select the product class editor window (Product C...-1) that is already active. Just select the product class editor from the active application windows area. Working with two windows can sometimes become confusing. It is highly recommended that while learning ENOVIA you utilize just one window at a time. Before switching back to one window, take a look at a horizontal layout. Select the settings icon, then change the layout to Horizontal. Select OK when done. This will change the two windows to have a horizontal layout rather than a vertical layout. As mentioned earlier, working with two windows can become very frustrating and confusing. It is highly recommended that you learn with just one window active. © Wichita State University Customizations, Page 35 ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Change the number of views back to one. While in the settings window, you should also take the opportunity to change your Unit for Distances to inch. This will save you from having to change the units later in this book. Be sure to select OK when finished. Now you are ready to close the active windows. Select, then right click on the part editor window(Part Edit...-1). You must select on the part editor first, otherwise, you will be closing the active application (in this case the product class editor). This will display the contextual menu for the window. Close Closes the window and exits the application Rename Renames the window. If you rename an active application, the new name will only exist for the life of the application. If you close the window, the new name will be gone. This is also the case if you close ENOVIA. It is not recommended that you spend a lot of time renaming your windows since they will not stay renamed. Collapse When the window tiling functionality is added to ENOVIA, this will collapse, or minimize the active window. Bookmark in Workbook Allows you to bookmark the window in a workbook Customizations, Page 36 ©Wichita State University ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 Select Close. This will close the window. Close all the other windows. This will take you back to a blank active application area. At this point, you are ready to start utilizing ENOVIA to access product classes and products. © Wichita State University Customizations, Page 37 ENOVIA LCA Concepts ENOVIA® V5R15 This page is intentionally left blank. Customizations, Page 38 ©Wichita State University . Other available courses CATIA V5 and ENOVIA • CATIA Basic Concepts • CATIA Part Design & Sketcher • CATIA Assembly Design • CATIA Drafting • CATIA Wireframe & Surfaces • CATIA Prismatic Machining • CATIA Surface Machining • CATIA Fitting Simulation & Kinematics • CATIA Functional Tolerancing & Annotation • CATIA Stress Analysis • ENOVIA DMU Viewer • ENOVIA LCA Basic Concepts • ENOVIA LCA Advanced Concepts • ENOVIA LCA Product Design To enroll in any of the above courses, contact us at: (316) 978-3283 toll-free at: 1-800-NIARWSU or email: [email protected]
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