3D Search

About 3D Search

The Sourcing Hub contains information about parts, manufacturers, and suppliers. This information can be used while designing or manufacturing a product. You can perform Simple or Standard searches based on attribute values. Sometimes, when you are working within the CATIA environment, it is not convenient to stop your design work, access the CES database, enter the attribute values, and perform your search. Instead, it is much more convenient to select a 3D item within your current CATIA environment, and initiate a search based on that item. You can do this with the 3D search functionality.

To access this functionality, open a CATPart or CATProduct in CATIA, select the desired item in the window, and click the CES View Sourcing Properties button in the CES toolbar.

When Using 3D Search

  • You can select an item in CATIA using any of the selection methods supported in CATIA (trap selection, tree selection, etc.)
  • An item can be selected from CATProducts, or CATParts.
  • The search is based on the root category of the CES database.
  • 3D search is supported only for Internal Items.
  • The Sourcing Search Results window appears with the results of the 3D search. All standard operations available in the Sourcing Search Results window are supported (Item Details, Compare, Instantiate, etc.).
  • The information displayed varies depending on the user privileges on the current project.
  • You must be logged on to ENOVIA V5 VPM in order for this functionality to be available.
  • The scope of the search is Internal Items. To view the Manufacturer Items or Supplier Items, use the Item Details functionality available through the Sourcing Search Results window.
  • If the selected items are multiple instances of the same CES item, the CES item will only be included once in the Sourcing Search Results window.
  • If none of the selected items match any CES items, the Sourcing Search Results window will be empty.

How to Perform a 3D Search

Follow these steps to conduct a 3D search:

This example assumes that:
  • a database including internal item information exists and is accessed by CATIA Client
  • you have either a CATPart or CATProduct file that contains one or more items contained in the CES database
  • you have successfully logged in to ENOVIA V5 VPM and CES. For more information on logging in, refer to Logging in to ENOVIA V5 VPM in CATIA and Accessing CES Functionality.
  1. In CATIA, open your CATPart or CATProduct file.

  2. Select one of the items in the file.

  3. Click the CES View Sourcing Properties button in the CES toolbar. The Sourcing Search Results window appears.

  4. If you select one of the result items and right-click, you see that you have the same functionality available as you do for results from Simple or Standard Search.

Sourcing Search Results Window

This table describes the fields displayed in the Sourcing Search Results window.

Fields Description
Search Criteria The search criteria is contained in the top line (the line with the magnifying glass icons). You can change the criteria by double-clicking on the magnifying glass icon under the attribute you wish to set. Once you have set the attribute(s) to the desired value(s), click Filter. The new search is performed.
Classification Category Contains the name of the category that you searched.
Organized by Contains a list of the sub-categories of the Classification category. Select one of these sub-categories to display only those results from that sub-category.
Page Enter the page number to display.


This table describes the buttons displayed in the Sourcing Search Results window:

Button Description

Filter

Click this to perform a new search using the attribute values you set in the top line of the Search Results window.

Click this to display the previous page of results.

Click this to display the next page of results.