Mechanical Modeler

Technical Articles
Mechanical Modeler Overview		Presentation, objectives and architecture
Mechanical Modeler Novelties- Presentation		Presentation of the V5R13 & V5R14 novelties
Mechanical Modeler Novelties- Impacts		Impacts of the V5R13 & V5R14 novelties
Mechanical Modeler Glossary
The Part document
•	The Structure of a Part Document	Description of the Part's containers
•	The Contents of the Specification Container - The Part Feature	What is the Part Feature?
•	The Contents of the Specification Container - Geometrical Features Sets	What is an Ordered Geometrical Set, a Geometrical Set, a Body?
•	The Contents of the Specification Container - Geometrical Features	What are the geometrical features?
•	The Contents of the Specification Container - Non Geometrical Features Sets	What are Non Geometrical Sets? What is a "MechanicalSet" Feature?
•	The Contents of the Specification Container - Non Geometrical Features	What are the Non Geometrical Features? What is a "MechanicalElement" Feature?
•	Order and Absorption Concepts	Presentation of two valid concepts for Ordered Geometrical Set and Body
The Build/Update Protocol
•	Specification/Result Mechanism applied to Mechanical Features	An internal view of the mechanical features
•	A Description of Update Errors	Using CATIUpdateError and CATMfErrUpdate
Accessing Sub-Elements
•	Generic Naming Overview	Accessing sub-elements
Adding Applicative Data
•	Working with Extension Features	How to Extend Behaviors and data to Mechanical Features, using Extension Features
•	Working with Providers	How to Extend specific CATPrtCont's behaviors to Applicative Containers
Creating a New Mechanical Feature
•	Creating a New StartUp Deriving from a Mechanical StartUp	Creating a StartUp and a StartUp factory interface
•	Integrating a New Mechanical Feature in V5	Implementing appropriate interfaces to integrate a new feature deriving from an existing Mechanical StartUp
•	Integrating a New Geometrical Feature in the Update Mechanism	Implementing the CATIBuild and CATIBuildShape interfaces on geometrical features
•	Configuration and Versioning a Mechanical Feature	Using the CATMmrAlgoConfigServices services
•	Verifying the Validity of a Geometrical Feature	Using the CATMmrVerifyUpdate application
•	Geometrical Backup StartUp	Principles and how to update existing geometrical StartUps and features
Mechanical Modeler Capabilities
•	An Overview of Power Copies and User Features	Essential characteristics and mechanisms of Power Copies and User Features
•	Applicative Mechanical Imports	How to retrieve characteristic of the mechanical import
•	Freezing Internal Copy With Link	Using CATIMmiResultFreeze
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Use Cases
The Part Document
•	Navigating a Part document	Exploring mechanical entities down to topological entities
•	Marking Up Topology in a Part document	Finding fillets and planar faces within a Part document
Creating Non Geometrical Features		A full example to create and integrate in the V5 your own non geometrical features
A New Geometrical Feature: the Combined Curve		A full example to create and integrate in the V5 your own geometrical features
•	Creating Combined Curve's Catalog	Defining a new StartUp in a catalog
•	Creating Combined Curve's Factory Interface	Defining and implementing the Combined Curve's factory interface
•	Creating Combined Curve's Interface of Type	Defining and implementing the interface to retrieve and modify the Combined Curve's specifications.
•	Building Combined Curve's Result	Implementing CATIBuild
•	Enabling Combined Curve's Result Deactivation	Implementing CATIMechanicalProperties
•	Verifying the Combined Curve's Sub-Element Selectability	Creating a Part workshop Add-in and using a mechanical command to verify the cells of the Combined Curve's topological result
•	Integrating Combined Curves inside Ordered Sets	Implementing CATIInputDescription
•	Defining the Combined Curve Type	Implementing CATIMf3DBehavior
•	Instantiating Combined Curves	How to create an instance and store it in a geometrical features set?
•	Modifying Combined Curve's Specifications	How to implement the replace mechanism for a new geometrical feature
•	Editing Combined Curves	Implementing CATIEdit through a dialog box and a state dialog command
•	Adding a Contextual Sub-Menu	Implementing CATIContextualSubMenu
•	Integrating Combined Curve to Knowledge	Implementing CATICkeFeature
•	Integrating a New Type of Component	Implementing CATICatalogEnable, CATICatalogInstantiation, and CATICatalogSynchronize
•	Creating an Add-in in the Shape Design Workbench	Customizing your application to fully take advantage of this new feature
Adding Applicative Data
•	Extending a Mechanical Feature using Extension Features and Providers	Using Extension Feature and Providers in MechanicalPart context
Copying Features
•	Copying Mechanical Features	Using CATMmrInterPartCopy
•	Retrieving Mechanical Import Information using GUID Mechanism	Using CATIMmiMechanicalImportApplicative using GUID as authentication
•	Retrieving Mechanical Import Information using ClientID	Using CATIMmiMechanicalImportApplicative with Startup Catalog Id as authentication
•	Freezing or Unfreezing Internal Copy	Using CATIMmiResultFreeze
Miscellanous
•	Setting applicative attributes and colors on Part sub-elements	Using CATMmrApplicativeAttributes
•	Copying Mechanical Features	Using CATMmrInterPartCopy
•	Integrating a New Mechanical Feature in the CAA Exposed Model	Performing OLE replay on features
•	Managing Create Datum Mode	Using CATIMmiPartInfrastructurePreferencesAtt
BRep Objects
•	Retrieving Selecting Objects in Copied Feature	Using CATMmrBRepScanServices
User Feature Usage
•	Creating a User Feature Reference	Using CATIUdfFactory, CATIUdfFeature, and CATIUdfFeatureSet
•	Instantiating a User Feature Reference	Using CATIUdfInstantiate
•	Editing a User Feature Reference	Using CATIUdfFeatureInstance
•	Instantiating Interactively a User Feature Reference	Using CATIUdfFactory and CATIUdfInstantiate
•	Creating a Command to Edit a User Feature	Implementing CATIEdit onto a User Feature
Axis System
•	Creating Axis System	Using CATIMf3DAxisSystemFactory and CATIMf3DAxisSystem
•	Managing Axis Systems	Using CATIMf3DAxisSystemManager
•	Creating a Sketch on an Axis System Plane	Using the axis system sub-elements
Sketcher
•	Creating Sketching Elements	Create sketching elements in a Part document
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Quick Reference
MechanicalModeler Reference		Interface and class reference for MechanicalModeler objects
MechanicalModelerUI Reference		Interface and class reference for MechanicalModelerUI objects
MecModInterfaces Reference		Interface and class reference for MecModInterfaces objects
MechanicalCommands Reference		Interface and class reference for MechanicalCommands objects
SketcherInterfaces Reference		Interface and class reference for SketcherInterfaces objects
SketcherUI Reference		Interface and class reference for SketcherUI objects
SketcherToolsUI Reference		Interface and class reference for SketcherToolsUI objects
ConstraintModeler Reference		Interface and class reference for ConstraintModeler objects
ConstraintModelerInterfaces References		Interface and class reference for ConstraintModelerInterfaces objects
The MechMod Public Specs Reference		A reference of public specs, attributes and derivability authorizations.
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History

Version: 1 [Mar 2000]	Document created
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