CATAnalysis Document Support
CATAnalysis documents store parameters for performing physical simulations on parts and assemblies, including links to the CATParts or CATProducts on which the simulation is run. CATAnalysis files are stored in Windchill as documents with category ‘Analysis’. Windchill visualization of CATAnalysis documents is not supported.
CATAnalysis Process Document Types
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Type
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Support
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CATAnalysis
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Maps to document category Analysis in Windchill
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CATAnalysisResults
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Not supported
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CATAnalysisComputations
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Not supported
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CATAnalysisExport
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Not supported
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The top-level element in all CATAnalysis documents is the Analysis Manager. The Analysis Manager contains the Links Manager and the user-defined datasets for performing simulations. The Links Manager manages the links to all dependent CATParts and CATProducts as well as links to auxiliary content such as CATAnalysisComputations files if present.
Metadata is stored in the top-level Analysis Manager container. However CATIA V5 does not display parameters in the structure tree nor are the parameters viewable from the properties menu of the Analysis Manager. To view the parameters, select the Analysis Manager in the structure tree and navigate to > > menu to view the Windchill system parameters.
CATAnalysis Links
In CATIA V5, CATAnalysis links are of type Doc. In Windchill, CATAnalysis links are stored as Analysis Reference links in Windchill. The links are at the component level and do not specify features within a component. Links to unmanaged types, such as CATAnalysisResults, are not managed by the Windchill Workgroup Manager or stored in Windchill.
The relationship between CATAnalysis and related design references (CATProduct and CATPart) is structure. CATProduct and CATPart are the required dependents of CATAnalysis. This means adding a CATAnalysis file to the workspace brings the related CATProduct and CATPart to the workspaceas well.
Check In
If you modify a CATAnalysis on a design assembly and cause the design assembly to be marked as modified, then you are asked to check in the CATAnalysis, CATProduct, and CATPart. If you do, then the CATAnalysis, CATProduct, and CATPart is saved in Windchillproperly. Related CATIA V5 parts are checked in as well if they are modified.
You can perform Save As or Rename functions on a CATAnalysis dependent from Windchill, but you must manually update any broken links from the CATAnalysis to the dependents that have been renamed.
Check in a CATAnalysis file as follows:
1. Select > on the CATAnalysis file from outside the workspace local directory.
2. In the workspace local directory, create a directory with the same name as the CATAnalysis file with the suffix .dir.
3. In an open session of CATAnalysis, set the export manager for the results, computations and export files to the new .dir directory.
4. Compute the analysis.
5. Select > .
6. Select > in the workspace local directory.
7. Click Add Attachment.
8. Add the results file as an attachment category that is downloaded automatically upon addition to a workspace (for example, CATIA V5 CGR.)
9. Click Apply.
10. Repeat steps 8 and 9 for the computations and/or export files.
11. Click OK to finish editing attachments.
12. Check in the CATAnalysis and its dependents from the workspace.
After check in, the results, computations and export files are automatically downloaded to the workspace local directory into the content directory when you add the CATAnalysis to the workspace. Verify this as follows:
1. Close the CATAnalysis from CATIA V5.
2. Remove the files from the workspace.
3. Verify that all the files are removed from the workspace local directory (delete the files, if they have not already been removed).
4. Click Open in CATIA V5 on the CATAnalysis from the commonspace.
5. Verify that the links are not broken and are pointing to the content directory within the workspace local directory.
Best Practices
PTC recommends that you keep the CATAnalysisResults and CATAnalysisComputation files outside of the workspace local directory.
1. Set the analysis setting in options to the current CATAnalysis folder.
2. Put the CATAnalysis and its dependents in a different directory (outside of workspace local directory) than its related CATAnalysisResults and CATAnalysisComputations files.
3. Put the CATAnalysisResults and CATAnalysisComputations files outside of a child directory of the CATAnalysis path.
4. Select > on the CATAnalysis file.
5. Select > (or > > ) on the CATAnalysis file.
Synchronization
The attributes changes made in Windchill or the workspace can be propagated into a CATIA V5 session if CATAnalysis is loaded.