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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. This access to an extensive amount of information on
numerous existing parts speeds up the development process and cuts
development costs. Depending on the type of item you are instantiating and the environment in which you are instantiating that item, the window that appears when you instantiate it will vary. In the How To Instantiate an Item section below, a part is instantiated from the Sourcing Search Results window. In this case the Insert Object window appears. This is the same window that is used when instantiating PowerCopies in Part Design, or instantiating Part Templates in Assembly Design. For more information on the Insert Object window and these other instantiation processes, please refer to:
CES and Electrical HarnessingWithin CATIA, the electrical workbench supports certain technologies required for designing electrical components. These technologies include:
These technologies are used by CES to instantiate CATParts, and CATProducts. They are also used when copying, comparing, loading and viewing item details for CATParts, and CATProducts. For more information about Device Placement, refer to Electrical 3D Design & Documentation : Overview, Electrical Library : Overview, or Electrical Library : Displaying Location Information from External Electrical Specification. For more information about Document Chooser, refer to CES Engineering Catalog Navigator : User Tasks : Integrating CES and Document Selection, or NC Manufacturing Infrastructure : PLM Integration. For more information about Protection Placement, refer to Common Functionalities : Electrical Package in Knowledge Expert, or Electrical Harness Flattening : Distinguishing Overlapping Protective Coverings. For more information about Smart Placement, refer to Electrical 3D Design & Documentation : Using Smart Placement from Catalog, or Electrical Library : Using Smart Placement from Catalog. For more information about Wire Routing, refer to Electrical Wire Routing User Guide. |
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This task explains how to instantiate an part found using a simple or a standard search. For more information about Simple Search or Standard Search, refer to : CES Engineering Catalog Navigator : Search : Simple Search or CES Engineering Catalog Navigator : Search : Standard Search. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Insert Object Window
This table describes the fields displayed in the Insert Object window.
Catalog Window
This table describes the buttons displayed in the Catalog window:
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