Opening a CATIA Version 4 Assembly Document
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This task will show you how to open a .asm document, that is a CATIA V4 assembly into Assembly Design Product. | |
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Click the Open icon 
or select the File->Open... command.
The File Selection dialog box appears. |
| 2. | In the File Selection box, select the file location. |
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3. | Select the .asm document of interest. |
| 4. | Click Open.
The application converts the .asm document into a .CATProduct document. The new document has the same properties as the V4 document. |
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| However, if the name of the V4 document includes special characters, CATIA converts these characters into new ones according to the characters equivalence table. For more about this table, please refer to CATIA Infrastructure User's Guide. | ||
| In our example, the CRIC product normally includes three sub-products (BRANCH, CRIC_SCREW and CRIC_FRAME), but the application informs us that these components could not be retrieved. As a consequence, geometry is not available and constraints appear as broken in the specification tree: | ||
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| 3. | What you
need to do is resolve the links to these documents. To do so, use the
"Linked Document Localization" capability. To access it, select
the Tools->Options... command then in the General
category, click the Document tab. Proceed as explained in
CATIA
Infrastructure User's Guide.
Once the operation is done, you can reopen your .asm document and note that the links are resolved. You can then perform any operation you want. When saving this CATProduct document, you will not alter the original .asm document. |
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