Tools Options for Propagating Parts

During the design process designers may request that one or more existing parts be approved for use in their project. Once the request is made, the Parts Manager must approve, or reject the request. If a part is approved for a project, a propagation/reconciliation process is run in the background to make the geometry of the part available to all necessary PLM systems. Before the propagation process is initiated, the VaultClient.properties file for each PLM system linked to the CES database must be present in a "Vault Client Directory" on your machine. During propagation/reconciliation a CES_Reconcile folder will be created in the Vault Client Directory. Parts will be copied temporarily to this CES_Reconcile folder during reconciliation. If no Vault Client Directory is set, then by default, the CATTemp directory will be used during reconciliation.

For more information, refer to Managing Parts Across Multiple PLM Instances.

To access the Vault Client Directory settings, start CATIA and select Tools > Options from the menu bar. Scroll down to the Collaborative Enterprise Sourcing node and select it. The Collaborative Enterprise Sourcing tab appears.

How to Use Tools Options for CES

Follow the steps to access Tools Options for Propagating Parts in CATIA:

  1. Start CATIA. To set the appropriate options for CES, go to the Tools menu and select Options. In the Options window that appears, scroll down and click Collaborative Enterprise Sourcing. The Collaborative Enterprise Sourcing tab appears.

  1. In the Reconciliation Management section, enter a path to a folder in the Vault Client Directory field, or click the browse button to search for the desired folder.

  2. You must copy the VaultClient.properties file from each PLM system into this folder and rename the file using the form servername_port_VaultClient.properties, for example a3d0118_10070_VaultClient.properties.