Copying an Item

About Copying an Item

During product development designers and engineers search for existing parts and incorporate some of those parts into the product. CES provides a way to search for existing parts, and compare those parts based on manufacturer, supplier, pricing, attributes and geometry. Once the desired part has been selected, that part can then be incorporated into the product. You can incorporate an item into a product either by instantiating it, or copying it. Copying behaves just like instantiating. For more information on instantiation, refer to Instantiating an Item.

When Copying an Item

  • To copy the item into a CATIA document, select one item from the Sourcing Search Results window, right-click on the selected item and select Copy from the contextual menu.
  • Go to the CATIA document (product structure, etc.) in which you want to copy the item.
  • Select the product in which to paste the item, right-click and select Paste from the contextual menu.
  • The copied item appears in the CATIA document.
  • Only Internal Items with an APPROVED Approval Status can be copied. This includes CATParts, CATProducts and V4 models.
  • Cut functionality is not supported.

How To Copy an Item from the Search Results

This task explains how to copy an item from Sourcing Search Results to another CATIA document:
This example assumes that:
  • you have CATIA Client running and it has access to a CES database that has been populated with internal item information
  • you have 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.
  • you have performed a search for internal items using attribute values appropriate for your database
  • you have a product structure window open
  1. Select the item in the Sourcing Search Results window that you wish to copy. (It must be an internal item.) Right-click on the item and select Copy.

  2. In the open Product Structure window, select the product in which to copy the item. Right-click and select Paste. The item appears in the Product Structure window.




 

Sourcing Search Results Window

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

Fields Description
Search Criteria Contains the search criteria text you entered in the Sourcing Search window. If this text is too long to be displayed in the Search Criteria field, click the More button to display the entire search criteria text in a separate window.
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
More Click this to see the entire search criteria text in a separate window. Notice that this button is only enabled if the search criteria text is too long for the Search Criteria field.
Edit Search Click this to return to the Sourcing Search window and edit your search. Please note that if you previously entered values for any Additional Properties attributes, these values will be clear when you return to the Sourcing Search window.

Show Count

Click this to show the number of results found in the search and the number of pages of results.

Click this to display the previous page of results.

Click this to display the next page of results.