Exposing CATIA Properties to Windchill

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You can expose many properties from a CATIA V5 model, so that they can be mapped as parameters in CATIA V5, and as IBA attributes in Windchill.

You can expose native CATIA V5 attributes (examples: Component, Instance Name, Product, Part Number, Revision, Definition, Nomenclature, Source, Description) by mapping them to predefined values.

For example, the following attributes are mappable to Windchill from the Mass tab of the CATIA V5 Properties Form:

CATIA Attributes	Mappable Windchill IBA Attributes
	CAT:MASS CAT:VOLUME CAT:DENSITY CAT:SURFACE_AREA CAT:CENTER_OF_GRAVITY_X CAT:CENTER_OF_GRAVITY_Y CAT:CENTER_OF_GRAVITY_Z CAT:INERTIA_MATRIX_XX CAT:INERTIA_MATRIX_XY CAT:INERTIA_MATRIX_XZ CAT:INERTIA_MATRIX_YX CAT:INERTIA_MATRIX_YY CAT:INERTIA_MATRIX_YZ CAT:INERTIA_MATRIX_ZX CAT:INERTIA_MATRIX_ZZ CAT:INERTIA_MATRIX_ZY

You can expose these properties for the main part body or for all parts. To expose the properties for only the main part body, set expose.mass.properties.only.main.body=Yes in the wgmclient.ini file.

To map such attributes, use the type and attribute management (Site > Utilities > Type and Attribute Management) utility to define the attribute and then map it into Windchill, as in the following example: