Precautions When Checking Out Files

When using Checkout > Load or Insert commands, the following are certain precautions that you must keep in mind. It is recommended that these precautions are followed or you can lose vital modifications to original files, or have inconsistent CATIA sessions.

When a CATIA file is checked into the collaboration server, an object is created for that CATIA file in the server and the CATIA file is attached to the object. Objects on the server are identified by their type and their name. In CT5, the name of the object is same as the filename of the document the object represents. For example, the object created for the CATIA file MyStructure.CATProduct is called MyStructure.

The ENOVIA Collaborative Design for CATIA V5 does not support checking out an object to a location that contains a file with the same name as a file attached to the object. For example, if you have an object on the collaboration server called MyStructure, which contains the file MyStructure.CATProduct, you cannot check out MyStructure to the location C:\MyStructure, if C:\MyStructure contains a file named MyStructure.CATProduct.

Similarly, you cannot check out an object to a CATIA session if that CATIA session already contains a file with the same name as a file attached to the object you want to check out. For example, if you have a file named MyStructure.CATProduct open in your CATIA session, you cannot check out the object MyStructure to your CATIA session, because the object contains a file with the name MyStructure.CATProduct.

You must be particularly careful when renaming an object in ENOVIA, or creating a new object in ENOVIA using Save As or Start Design. In any of these cases, the attached file's name will be different from the object's name. When checking out these objects, you must make sure that neither the file's name nor the target object's name exists in the check out directory or the CATIA session. Once the newly created or renamed object is checked out and then checked back in, the names of the object and the attached CATIA file will be the same. As an example, in ENOVIA, a CATProduct object named New is created using Save As on the Old object. This object should not be checked out to a directory, or to a CATIA session that already contains a file named Old.CATProduct or New.CATProduct.