About Opening Designs From ENOVIA

Attachments are AutoCAD files that are embedded or linked to a AutoCAD design. When you open a part, assembly, or drawing which has a linked attachment in ENOVIA Collaborative Design for AutoCAD, then the attachment is also opened along with the model.

The ENOVIA Open dialog box does not display the attachment in the structure of the design displayed. The attachments are copied with the design from ENOVIA to the specified Checkout directory.

Attribute synchronization ensures that the attributes in the design file on your computer match the attributes of the associated ENOVIA object.

Attribute Synchronization is done each time you open a design in AutoCAD. If you are not connected to ENOVIA while opening a design, the ENOVIA Attribute Synchronization message is displayed. Click Login to ENOVIA to launch the ENOVIA Login dialog box or click Continue Load to load the design without synchronizing attributes. For example, during the design process User A modified the Author and Comments attributes of a design Part A using Properties dialog box in AutoCAD. This modified metadata is not copied to the Part in ENOVIA store.

Your Integration Administrator specifies which attributes and properties can be synchronized.

Note: See ENOVIA Designer Central Installation and Administrator's Guide for details on mapping attributes, and enforcing attribute synchronization.

Note: You can also synchronize attributes when you save a design to ENOVIA.

Using ENOVIA Open or ENOVIA Insert dialog box you can search, select, and open or insert multiple designs from ENOVIA in AutoCAD. The Global Preferences set by the Integration Administrator or the options selected in ENOVIA Options dialog box are applied for all the selected designs. Selected designs are opened to the working directory and are loaded to the active session.

Note: Preferences that are enforced by the Integration Administrator cannot be modified.

While opening multiple designs simultaneously, a conflict may occur if your business process is not enforcing the "Latest Version" rule. When a version conflict occurs, the version conflict is resolved automatically and the latest version is downloaded and opened.

This section lists the behavior changes in the Open feature when MCADInteg-FileReadOnlyBehavior is set as TRUE in the global configuration object by your Administrator.

The behavior changes are,

• The file will be read-only if the design is not locked by the user and checked out.
• If the design is locked by the user, the file stays writable.
• Durin Open, attributes are synchronized only if you have write permission for the file.

This section describes the behavior of the integration depending on the lock status when you try to open a design from your local disk.

When you try to open a design that is not locked by you then a message is displayed asking you to acquire lock while opening from local disk.

• Click Yes to lock the root document and make the document writable. All other components remain in the original state.
• Click No to keep the document status as read only.