Windchill Workgroup Manager for CATIA V5 supports templates and template links. You navigate to the template in the commonspace and instantiate the template in CATIA V5. In Windchill, the template is represented by links.

Templates can link an analysis, a process, and a drawing, and have either a .CATPart or .CATProduct extension. They are used for starting CATIA V5 projects from scratch.

A template is an EPMDocument type in the Windchill Workgroup Manager, and has an assembly subtcategory that makes Windchill see template links as doctypes.