Creating a Document

You can use the New command create a new CATIA V5 document, using one of the templates made available by your Integration Administrator. The document must be explicitly saved to ENOVIA to create a business object for the new design created from the template.

Note: The ENOVIA object associated to the document is only created once the new document is first saved, and not as soon as New is clicked.

The command can be used to create CATProduct, CATPart and CATDrawing documents.

Before you begin: Ensure that templates exist for the required types. Templates are created by the Integration Administrator. Administrator privilege is required to create a template. For more details, see Defining the Start Design Templates section of Designer Central Installation and Administrator's Guide.

Note: On a default setup, one template for each supported type are available, but the Integration Administrator may add or remove some of each.

  1. From CATIA, click ENOVIA V6 > New or click <New Icon> from the ENOVIA V6 toolbar to open the New dialog box.



  2. In the ENOVIA V6 New dialog box, do the following:


    1. Select a template from the CATIA V5 Templates list. All available templates are listed and grouped by document type.

      Note: Only CATProduct, CATPart, and CATDrawing templates are supported.

    2. Use the following steps to specify the name of the new document:
      1. Either enter a name in the Name field or select the Autoname checkbox and choose an Autoname series from the drop-down list.

        Note: Enabling Autoname option disables the Name field and enables the Autoname dropdown.

      2. Select an appropriate object type for the new document from the Type dropdown list.

        Note: This option is available only when a template has been selected in the CATIA V5 Template tree. The drop down only lists the ENOVIA types which are appropriate for the selected template. By default, only one type is available for each kind of template, but this may differ depending on the types set up by the administrator.

  3. Click OK to create the document based on the selected template.