About Checking Out

Checking out a design copies it from the ENOVIA database to your computer and opens or inserts it in another design open in CATIA V5 depending on your choice.

Your preference settings and global preferences set by Integration Administrator control the checkout process. You can open a design to download the file that has been updated by another user, or if you have not previously downloaded that file.

Preventing Partial Checkout

Selecting a parent object for checkout without selecting all the child objects of that parent is called partial checkout.

If you performed a partial checkout on a parent object that has a child object that has a new, modified, or renamed status, the status of the child object is not updated in CATIA. Then, when checking in the object, the wrong status is saved back to ENOVIA, leading to inconsistent behavior.

ENOVIA helps you prevent the situation. When you click the checkout button, you will receive a warning message stating that you have selected an object with a new, modified, or renamed status. Close the warning message and the checkout procedure is aborted. You then have to delete any files in your checkout directory before proceeding with any further checkout.

Checking Out RFA Objects

Upon Checkout, an additional "Local Checkout" check-box for each "CATIA object" is displayed.

Selecting the Local Checkout check-box downloads the file from the RFA location to the local disk to the directory specified in the "Checkout Directory" text box in the Checkout page and loaded. If the checkbox is not selected, then the file is loaded from the RFA location in "Read-Only" mode and the files cannot be edited.

You must attain "lock" to such files to download the files to the local-disk and edit the files.