CATIA Solutions medium contains all deliveries necessary to install all available products and options. As you probably have not ordered all products or wish to install all options, you will be required to select the deliveries during installation; make sure before beginning installation that you have a list of your ordered products.
CATIA Solutions installation procedures are based on a Graphical User Interface (GUI). To access to this GUI you have to unload it before installing CATIA Solutions, after logging under root userid, you have to mount your CD-ROM drive by entering the following command:
mount -v cdrfs -r /dev/cd0 /cdrom
Then go to the the / directory and type the command /cdrom/START to start the CATIA installation (where /cdrom is the directory where the cdrom drive is mounted).
Refer to "Activating CATIA Solutions" for more information.
When installing the service pack, the operation may fail with error code WFIS00014 and Memory fault (core dump) because of the number of fixes made available to the user over time, during the evolution of CATIA Version 4 Release 2.5.
The solution is as follows:
Note: When installing the CDROM using the START command you will be prompted to name the directory into which the CATIA software will be loaded. The directory name should end with /unload.
The installation procedure takes into account the language you want to use. When creating the administrator environment your are prompted to select the language you want. All CATIA and Motif resources are created or referenced according to this language. This is done by the inilang shell run by the installation procedure.
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Since 420 level, the only mode available for working with code page on AIX platform is the National Language Support active mode in CATIA data as for other UNIX platforms, that is CATSITE.CODE_PAGE_SUPPORT set to TRUE. |
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Before creating the administrator environment, check that you have at least a 'COM' license available. This step uses CATFONT to create CATIA fonts indexed by the value of the LANG environment variable and the CATFONT execution requests a 'COM' license. |
You can then update the administrator environment for another language. This is done by the addlang shell you must run yourself.
It is not advised to use telnet to create/update administrator environments and to launch the addlang shell from a remote machine if you use a LANG value associated with a DBCS code page (Ja_JP, ko_KR, zh_TW, zh_CN).
As of CATIA Version 5, the FONTDATA format will no longer be supported. Consequently, if you have user FONTDATAs, you must convert them to FONT and FONT CODE so that you will be able to use them in V5. This migration must be done in V4 using the CATFONT utility. V5 does not offer this migration tool.
The PROJECT file used by CATIA must be labelled with the current code page used. This is automatically performed if you install your PROJECT file using the "Additional Features". If you want to use an existing not labelled PROJECT file or an existing PROJECT file encoded with a code page different from your current code page, run CATAIX against it using the keyword TO followed by the current code page.
Until 417 level, Motif resource files such catia.font and catia.table set in $XAPPLRESDIR ($CAT_CUST/adm/xcfg by default) and $XAPPLRESDIR/$LANG directories, were depending on platform.
In order to simplify customer environment, an evolution has been performed:
Until 417 level, GII OPT Motif did not support font concatenation in
Motif resource file. An evolution has been performed, in particular
for DBCS languages for which sometimes we need to concatenate sbcs
and dbcs Motif fonts.
This evolution implies that character size modification functionality
is not supported in this mode, this behaviour is the same as the
behaviour provided by the HMKMOT routine.
Until 417 level, TEXTD2 input textfields were managed through graPHIGS.
Since 418 level the Motif input mode has been introduced in order to offer the benefit of AIX Motif input method usage, in particular Wnn6 for Japanese language.
This new mode can be activated by setting the AIX_MOTIF_INPUT environment variable to any value (true for exemple).
The default mode remains the graPHIGS input mode.
If you use the Tools/Quick Text (DR) item or the /quitxt command for Drafting DBCS Annotation creation or modification you have to declare appropriate Motif fonts in order to allow national character input in the Motif editor window.
The way to do this, is the following:
in your $HOME directory create a file named Dialog and containing the following lines :
CATDlgEditor.FontList= "-*-gothic-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-jisx0201.1976-0;\ -*-gothic-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-jisx0208.1983-0:";
CATDlgEditor.FontList= "-*-gothic-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1;\ -*-gothic-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-ksc5601.1987-0:";
Euro character is supported as an Engineering Symbol, and as such follows the general rules applying to Engineering Symbols. A thirteenth engineering symbol has been introduced and is supported in the CATIA fonts which already support the other engineering symbols, and in the Motif CATIA environment files which already support the other engineering symbols.
As engineering symbol, the euro character input is managed through the key combination : Ctrl+Alt+F.
In order to prevent UNIX end-user using characters not available for NT platform supported with CATIA V5 product line, a new value for the CATIA.CHARACTER_RANGE_FOR_MEMBER_NAME parameter has been introduced : NT_COMPATIBILITY.
This value induces the same behaviour as the UNIX_COMPATIBILITY_EXCEPTED_CTRL value with the following differences :
WARNING
The default allocation size for models in CATIA.Assembly Modeling workbench ('catasm' or Tools/Assembly'... commands) can be tuned.
RECOMMENDATION
Tuning can be achieved setting the CATIA_MODEL_EXTEND_ALLOC_KBYTES environment variable,
USERS AFFECTED
Users of the Assembly workbench capabilities.
PRODUCT AFFECTED
CATIA.Assembly Modeling
WARNING
The management of .asm files generation from CATIA session has been improved.
RECOMMENDATION
The generation of Assembly files from CATIA session searches within the Search Order a file .asm matching exactly each model, and re-uses it if it is found.
USERS AFFECTED
Users of the Assembly workbench capabilities.
PRODUCT AFFECTED
CATIA.Assembly Modeling
WARNING
IBM LUM server 4.6.8 is required if you wish to use network licenses. Please refer to Licensing dedicated page.
USERS AFFECTED
CATIA Administrators and users
PRODUCT AFFECTED
All CATIA products