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Access privileges |
Access privileges enable users to access designated processes. |
Action |
All modifications to the product structure of a part occur in the shortcut of an Action. The action is a formalism that instigates control and historical tracking. |
Action description |
A free-text describing the Action. |
Action Management |
The ENOVIA V5 application in which the user manages Actions. |
Action history |
A trace of the status changes in the course of an Action's life cycle. |
Action ID |
An automatically generated number that uniquely identifies an Action. This number can also be customized to conform to in-house standards. |
Action owner |
By default, the creator of an Action is the Action owner. It is possible to later transfer the Action to another user. |
Action priority |
Action priorities are defined by the ENOVIA V5 Administrator. Examples of priority values are Low, Medium and High. |
Action status |
Action statuses are defined by your administrator as elements of status graphs. |
Action type |
Action types are defined by your administrator (examples are Design, Manufacturing, Documentation); three letters representing the action type will be used as a prefix to the automatically generated Action ID. |
Alternate Part |
A Part that can be used as an alternative to another. An Alternate Part will apply to all instances of the Part. |
Applicability |
The use of an instance in a configuration. Applicability can be defined by an effectivity expression or by a modification effectivity. |
Assembly |
Hierarchical organization of parts consisting of a part with one or more component parts. Component parts may themselves contain component parts. The number of levels in the total assembly is its "depth". |
Assembly Relationship Effectivity | The effectivity that in the Assembly Relationship Link, i.e.. The link between a parent part and its child part. |
Associate Action |
Associates an Action to a configurable object. Changes made to the structure are recorded in the Action. |
Associated Objects |
The input and output objects of an Action. |
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Bill of Material (BOM) |
A listing of the Product Structure components. |
Bookmark | The "favorites" link created between an object and the user's homepage. Bookmarks create an "ease of use" for the user, allowing them to access information by simply clicking on the created link, which results in the object's display. |
Bounding cube |
The geometrical coordinates of a cube that surrounds or includes a part or assembly. They are used for defining Zones. |
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Category (aka Specification Catetgory) | A category is a logical group of specifications. For example, "Engine Displacement" can be a category that contains all related variant specifications like 2L, 3L, 4L, etc. |
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Clipboard |
A buffer into which objects or sets of objects are temporarily placed so that they can be pasted elsewhere. |
Clipping |
Restricting the depth of view on models. Clipping depth is defined by planes in the foreground and background of the viewer. The positions of these planes can be adjusted. That part of a model which lies within the planes will be visible. |
Close |
Removes a model from its Viewer. |
Computed Effectivity | Effectivity that is defined for a part instance based on its parent part. |
Component | A part instance. |
Configurable Object |
Identifies a set of configuration applicabilities associated with the Product. |
Configurable Product | A product that is configured to contain part instances, assemblies, and component structures. |
Configuration |
Configuration is a technique allowing one to manage product variability without having to maintain a distinct part list for each product variant. The key to configuration is the ability for the system extract meaningful subsets of parts out of a consolidated collection of all parts needed to build an entire family of products. |
Configuration Handler |
Defines a particular configuration of a Product by specifying the values for the set of corresponding specifications and effectivity expressions. |
Configured Cut | The removal of a part instance from a specific effectivity definition. However, removal of a part instance due to a configured cut does not remove the part from the actual product structure. |
Context |
A stored Product expansion and Product Editor layout. |
Converter |
Method enabling to convert data into html format. |
Copy |
Duplicate data and place it in the clipboard. |
Cut |
Remove data and place it in the clipboard. |
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Date Effectivity | The definition of effectivity for a part instance or product, which defines the applicability of the effectivity in terms of dates. |
Demote |
Reduces the maturity status of an object. |
Dependency Graph |
A graph that describes the relationship between CATIA generated documents attached to objects within a product structure. |
Deselect |
Remove an object from a set of selected objects. If one or several objects constitute a set of selected objects, then to remove one of them from the set, click on the object with the left mouse button while simultaneously holding down the control key. |
Digital mockup (DMU) |
A digital representation of a product. A digital mockup is created in a visualization tool such as CATIA or the 4D Navigator. The digital mockup can be constructed from the contents of a Product Structure. |
Document |
A document is any file of physical data such as 3D models, text and image files. |
Drop Root |
Removes the selected assembly from the Instance View of the Product Editor. |
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EBOM | An Engineering Bill of Material which normally denotes the design intent and engineering integrity of a product structure. |
Editors | Specific User Interfaces that allow the user to create, edit, or delete particular objects. |
Effectivity | Specific conditions that validate an object or an action in a particular product structure, established by indicating a date, range, specification or milestone. |
Effectivity expression |
A set of criteria that determine whether an instance is valid for a configuration or not. |
Engineering change |
Formal process used for managing changes to be made to product structures and documents. |
Event |
Changes to data that are considered to be of interest. Examples of events are: change_status of an Action, add_child, move_child, delete_child of a Part. You can subscribe to these events with the Publish / Subscribe mechanism. |
Expand Product Structure |
Render visible lower levels of a Product structure. |
Expansion depth |
When you expand a graph, the expansion depth defines the number of additional levels that will be rendered visible. |
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Filters | A search criteria that is applied to a product structure, after which, returns a specified product view . |
Folder |
The object in which Documents can be grouped. |
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Grant privilege |
Privileges to access Processes are granted to Persons or to Roles (a Role, in the shortcut of access to Processes, are sets of Persons). |
Graph Compare | Graph Compare enables you to graph comparisons based on product specifications, configuration handlers, product contexts and generic components, and enables you to save your product structure comparisons to a report. |
Generic Component | A sub-category of a Product. |
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Instance |
An individual occurrence of a part in an assembly. Each instance of a part in the assembly is identical except as regards certain external characteristics such as the position. |
Insert |
Add a new Instance to the Product Structure. An inserted Instance will be added below the selected branch of the Product Structure. |
Interface | The place at which independent and often unrelated systems meet and act on or communicate with each other. |
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Layout |
An arrangement of Views in the Product Editor. |
Level |
The relative hierarchical position of a component within a product assembly. |
Lifecycle | The series of stages relating to form, fit,
and function, and maturity, of which a part instance evolves. |
Link | The connection between two objects. |
Lock |
The status of an instance is locked when under modification by a User. An instance locked to one User cannot be worked on by other Users. |
Lock Status | The status of part instance relating to its lock or unlock state. |
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Manufacturing Hub | The manufacturing view of information that is visible to the design engineering group, which allows allows engineers to collaborate during their process planning and detailing activities. |
Metadata | Data about data. For example, the title, subject, author, of an object constitutes metadata about the object. |
Milestone | A significant point in development. Milestones can be defined in effectivity expressions, allowing the user the ease of updating without having to alter the effectivity expression of each part instance. |
Model |
CAD-CAM geometry. |
Modification | An effectivity expression. |
Modification History |
A record of the Modifications (defined by Actions), and Validated Effectivity Expressions for a Part Instance. |
Mutual Exclusivity | A category which is marked mutually exclusive, only allows one specification to be selected (either manually selected or one marked as non-replaceable) within a given effectivity expression of a part instance. |
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Object |
An entity of the data base that can be manipulated. Objects include parts, models, actions and documents. |
Operations | The defining of effectivity expressions for part instances. |
Organization |
A hierarchical representation of the different departments of a company. |
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Pane |
A pane in which you can view or enter information. |
Part |
An entity that is the focal point of all data managed by ENOVIA V5. A part is identified by a part number. |
Part Instance |
An occurrence of a Part Reference in the Product Structure. |
Part Master |
The definition of a Part common to all Versions. |
Part Number |
An attribute that uniquely identifies a part. |
Part Reference |
The definition of a Part defined by the Part Master and Part Version data. |
Part Version |
The definition of a Part specific to one version. |
Paste |
Insert data that has been copied or cut into the clipboard. |
Person |
You, the user, as defined in the shortcut of the People and Organization module. |
Positioning matrix |
The x, y, z coordinates of an assembly or part instance relative to a global co-ordinate system. |
Primary Document | The initial document created, which becomes the cornerstone of all future revisions and iterations. |
Print declarative |
XML file that defines for each type the list of possible reports. It contains all available views and layouts. |
Privilege |
Different combinations of People, Organizations and Roles define Privileges which restrict or allow access to data and processes in ENOVIA V5. |
Process |
A Process is an individual task within the software, such as Create Zone or Delete Part. These are the building blocks that are used to define access to ENOVIA V5 functionality. |
Product |
A set of parts linked together by parent/child relationships constituting a part that is a commercially deliverable entity to an external client. |
Product-Category | A unique specification holder, that allows users to pair the many specifications that make up a unique configurable view of a product, with the product itself. By creating the various specifications that will define any given product series (i.e. Car A, Car B, etc.), users can organize their configurable views in a more efficient and manageable fashion. |
Product Class |
A category of Products. |
Product Class Root |
The highest level Product Class. |
Product Editor |
The ENOVIA V5 tool for managing Product Structures. |
Product Instance |
An occurrence of one Product within the Product Structure of another. |
Product Specification |
A product specification is one parameter used to extract subsets in a configuration. A product specification identifies a specific variant of a given product that is allowed. For example, an engine can have variations in engine displacement (2L, 3L, or 4L), propulsion (water jet or propeller), etc., which together can be identified as a product specification. |
Product Structure |
The set of multi-level relationships that together constitute the bill of material of the product. |
Product Type | A third tier classification of product categories. For example, a Product Class could be "Engines", and a "Product" could possibly be a "2.3 Liter Engine". A Product Type would be the 3rd Tier classification of this product, which could possibly be "USA Model". Both the Product and the Product Type can be configured, and contain component structures. |
Promote |
Increase the maturity status of an object. |
Proposed Effectivity |
An Effectivity expression defined as part of a modification and held in an Action. |
Properties |
Attributes associated to an object. |
Public access |
Giving access to a Process to everyone in the organization. |
Publish |
When an event on an object changes, its result is published in the system. Users subscribing to the event will be informed of the change. |
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Query | The search for a particular object based on criteria defined by the user. |
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Range Effectivity | The definition of effectivity for a part instance or product, which defines the applicability of the effectivity in terms of unit ranges. |
Refresh |
Update the Product Structure to reflect changes. A Refresh can be made from the data in memory or from the stored database. |
Reset Filter |
The filter that removes the application of a Zone filter or Configuration Handler. |
Result pane |
Table that lists the results of a database query for a particular object (part, model, action, document). |
Revision | An amended part instance, which has been revised to display a change in its component structure as it relates to form, fit, or function. |
Revoke privilege |
Remove a privilege to access a Process or a Data Group. |
Role |
A set of Persons performing similar tasks in the shortcut of their organization entity. Roles are always attached to a specific organization entity. |
Root part |
The origin part of a product structure graph. |
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Search |
Search for an object in the database. Search criteria can be set in the search query to make the search quicker and specific. For example, use of the User Id will find all searched objects owned by the User. |
Select |
Make an object active, so that an action will be applied to it. An object is selected by pointing to it with the mouse and clicking on the left mouse button. |
Select Multiple |
Make a number of objects simultaneously active; the next action is applied to all the objects. The first object in a multi-selection is activated as described in "Select" above, then the other objects are added by keeping the shift key pressed and clicking on the objects with the left mouse button. |
Session |
A CATIA work area comprising one or more models. |
Session Effectivity | Effectivity that has been defined within the current Product Editor session using the Operations window. Session Effectivity is effectivity that has been defined outside of the context of an action. |
Shortcut menu |
A menu that displays when the user clicks the right mouse button. This menu varies as a function of the software shortcut. It contains often-used functions. |
Specification |
Specification is a code identifying a specific variant that is allowed for a given product. Specification can also be understood as a code identifying a specific feature or a characteristic of products in an enterprise. For example, an engine manufacturer can have displacement variations (2L, 3L, or 4L), each of which is identified as a specification. |
Specification Category |
A category is a logical group of specifications. For example, "Engine Displacement" can be a category that contains all related variant specifications like 2L, 3L, 4L, etc. |
Status |
Indicator that indicates the state of advancement of a modification to the product structure during the course of its life cycle. |
Status Graph |
A series of statuses through which an Action will pass for a particular Action type. The status graph is defined by the VPM administrator. |
Style sheet |
File determining the layout of a report. |
Sub-assembly |
An assembly which is itself a component in another assembly. |
Subscribe |
Users subscribe to object events to be informed when the events change. |
Subscribe with Mail |
A User subscribing to an event will be informed of its change by mail. |
Substitute Instance |
An Instance of a Part that can be used as an alternative to another. Substitute Instances apply to selected instances only. |
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Unlock |
The status of an instance available to be worked on by a User. |
Unsubscribe |
To discontinue a subscription to an object event. |
User Profile |
A User Profile governs, at the basic level, what tasks a person can carry out in ENOVIA V5. Examples of User Profiles are:
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Validated Effectivity |
An Effectivity Expression resulting from a completed Action. |
Version | A number assigned to an object to identify a particular iteration of the object at a particular stage, before and after release. Major releases of an object are assigned "Revisions", while version numbers are usually associated with minor changes to the object, whereas only the number after the decimal point increases. |
View |
An area of the Product Editor displaying a different aspect of the Product Structure. |
Viewer |
A Viewer is an application that allows a document to be read or modified. For example, viewers that can read CATIA model document include CATIA V4 and the 4D Navigator. |
VRML |
Virtual Reality Modeling Language. |
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Workpackage |
The Workpackage Exchange application enables the user to extract data from his company information systems and to re-import the data once updated by his supplier. |
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Zone |
Predefined bounding ball for a product. A zone has a name which can be referenced by the user. |
Zone/Volume filter |
Set of zones and/or volumes applied to a part that determines whether the part belongs to a particular view of an assembly tree. |