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- Subject : AIX CATIA News from Dassault Systemes,Paris
-
- 1. Introduction
-
- Today's industry is facing the challenge of improving quality and
- productivity, while integrating new technologies. Moreover, the
- structure of the traditional company is being replaced by the
- extended company: comprising several geographical locations,
- subcontractors integrated into the industrial process, or intra-
- company partnership projects. Within information systems, central
- systems are being replaced by mixed mainframe-workstation networks.
- In this context, information exchange and interoperability, in
- particular, have become strategic aspects of the industrial process.
-
- To consolidate its offer, Dassault Systemes is announcing the
- availability of extended data transfer functionalities between sites
- or between mainframes and workstations on a network, aimed at
- improving exchange quality.
- Moreover, a new document is available. The CATIA Data Transfer
- Cookbook', will provide clients with methods for data transfer
- processing. These tools have been subjected to a strict certifica-
- tion process and validation by one of our clients, which ensures a
- high level of quality.
-
- 2. Improved Mainframe-Workstation Transfer Quality (CATAIX)
-
- Information systems use different formats for representing character
- (EBCDIC our ASCII) or numerical (floating point number specific to
- the S/370 systems or standard IEEE for AIX workstations) type data.
- In addition, a user wishing to exchange data between a mainframe and
- a workstation should use the CATAIX utility to ensure the translation
- of character or floating point type data.
-
- Quality and reliability have become strategic factors for our clients
- as CAD/CAD has become the data communication vector in their
- partnership projects, in industrial sub-contracting, as well as in
- industrial environments in which mainframes coexist with
- workstations.
-
- It is with this in mind that several developments have been made to
- this utility to ensure reliability, quality and precision in transfer
- operations. Efforts have focused on full data recognition (geometric
- or technological, such as NC, etc.) and real data conversion in
- compliance with machine formats.
-
- 3. Improved Project Data Transfer (CATEXP/CATIMP)
-
- CATIA data structured in Project form: this means that CATIA users
- working on the same project can share Standards (PROJECT files), such
- as Pattern, Attribute, Materials tables, etc., or resources (SHEET,
- RECORD files, etc.). Moreover, this data can be exported (CATEXP
- utility) or imported (CATIMP utility) to another site, preserving
- project consistency.
-
- Correspondence Table management, guaranteeing the consistency of the
- project transferred, has been improved:
- - PIPING elements can now be imported/exported
- - ATTRIBUTE import has been improved (automatically renamed in the
- case of title conflict)
- - MATERIALs import has been made more reliable
- - Update between the Correspondence Table and the MODEL, SHEET and
- RECORD files (CPW/ATT) is now automatic.
-
- The Project Manager can prohibit the use of certain PATTERNs (Pattern
- Lock) :
- - The Pattern Lock is now maintained during transfer
- (Export/Import).
-
- 4. Improved Validation Tools (CATAIX - CATSUMR)
-
- The CATSUMR utility is used to analyze model contents (standard,
- unit, etc.) and for pre- and post-transfer validation of model
- contents and quality.
- - The 'Abstract' option complements this utility and is used
- to calculate the number of elements in a model.
- - CATSUMR can also be used for multi-model analysis, for
- one-step evaluation all model files, no longer necessitating
- individual model validations.
-
- The CATAIX utility is used for transfers between mainframe and
- workstation. It is now possible to:
- - calculate statistics on transfer quality (STAT option)
- - determine which CATIA reference elements (JELE) resulted in a
- transfer problem.
-
- 5. CATIA Base Data Transfer Cookbook: A Transfer Method
-
- The Base Data Transfer Cookbook provides you with the basic principles
- of CATIA data management, for example:
- - what is an Object, a Project, a CATIA Library ?
- - how are they transferred ?
-
- The Cookbook provides you with a checklist and recommendations which
- will help you carry out data transfers adapted to your needs, for
- example:
- - what is the communication medium between the sender and the
- receiver ?
- - which CATIA version is installed on the receiving site ?
- - which units and precision are used for model transfer?
- - what type of relation is there between the sender and the receiver?
- - is the data to be transferred valid ?
-
- The Cookbook provides you with step-by-step procedures and examples.
- It also provides you with methods for validating your transfers, for
- example:
- - how to transfer data between a mainframe and a workstation
- - how to test transfer quality
-
- This document will be a valuable aid to anyone working with CATIA
- data transfer:
- - the new administrator will find simple explanations on the
- basic principles of CATIA data structure and its transfer
- - the experienced administrator will find supplementary explanations
- which will enable him/her to perform day-to-day tasks.
-
- The "CATIA Base Data Transfer Cookbook" supplements the information
- contained in the 'Planning and Administration Guide' and the
- 'Administrator User Guide'.
-
- 6. Conclusion
-
- This announcement contributes to consolidating CATIA leadership in
- the area of Concurrent Engineering systems, complements its product
- and services offer dedicated to data sharing (and the work
- environment) between several sites.
-
- 7. Appendix: System Delivery
-
- Software developments are available in PTF form:
-
- DELIVERIES ON CATIA V3R2.3
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- | TITLE | MVS/XA | AIX | VM/XA | VM/SP |
- |-----------------------------|---------|---------|---------|---------|
- |Floating Point Conversion | HB31173 | HB31325 | HB31634 | HB30645 |
- |-----------------------------|---------|---------|---------|---------|
- |Piping Table Support | HB31174 | HB31376 | HB32721 | - |
- |-----------------------------|---------|---------|---------|---------|
- |Improved CORFIC management 1 | HB31567 | HB31376 | HB32721 | - |
- |-----------------------------|---------|---------|---------|---------|
- |Improved CORFIC management 2 | HB29968 | HB32834 | HB32835 | - |
- |-----------------------------|---------|---------|---------|---------|
- |CATSUMR correction on user | HB32527 | HB33353 | HB33356 | - |
- | modeling | | | | |
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- DELIVERIES ON CATIA V3R2.5
- --------------------------------------------------------------
- | TITLE | MVS/XA | AIX | VM/XA |
- |------------------------------------------------------------|
- | Floating Point Conversion | included in V3R2.5 |
- |------------------------------|-----------------------------|
- | Piping Table Support | included in V3R2.5 |
- |------------------------------|-----------------------------|
- | Improved CORFIC management 1 | included in V3R2.5 |
- |------------------------------|-----------------------------|
- | Improved CORFIC management 2 | HB29968 | HB32834 | HB32835 |
- |------------------------------|---------|---------|---------|
- | CATSUMR correction on user | HB32527 | HB33353 | HB33356 |
- | modeling | | | |
- --------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Documentation deliveries :
-
- - "CATIA Base Transfer Cookbook" - order number : SH52-0480
-
- - CATEXP documentation update
- - CATIMP documentation update
- - CATAIX documentation update
- - CATSUMR documentation update
-
- ********************************************************
-
- DASSAULT SYSTEMES - MIECO
-
- MATSUSHITA INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT CO, Ltd (MIECO) and DASSAULT SYSTEMES
- announce a CAA development partnership agreement.
-
- CAA, CATIA Application Architecture, comprises software engineering
- tools, rules and methods which enable industries and service companies
- to develop special applications based on CATIA open architecture.
-
- Within this architecture, MIECO (Osaka - Japan) and DASSAULT SYSTEMES
- (Suresnes, France), signed a CAA development partnership agreement on
- November 6, 1992 in Paris.
-
- MIECO is DASSAULT SYSTEMES' first Japanese partner. This also marks
- the first time that a CAA agreement has been signed with an equipment
- manufacturer.
-
- MIECO specializes in the fields of industrial equipment and components
- and has a unique expertise in the area of high-tech arc welding
- robotics systems.
-
- DASSAULT SYSTEMES is the world leader in CAD/CAM/CAE/PIM and its CATIA
- and CADAM software are used in a wide range of industries, in the
- aeronautics and automobile sectors in particular.
-
- CAA will enable MIECO to complete DASSAULT SYSTEMES' offer of off-line
- programming software for use on MIECO's robotics systems, while
- providing clients with guarantees in terms of use and operations.
-
- DASSAULT SYSTEMES has determined that robotics is one of the major
- axes of its strategy, which has also been recognized by a growing
- number of CATIA users worldwide. The CATIA robotics products currently
- count over 500 seats.
-
- 'A very strong demand on the part of our clients for a high-tech
- robotics offer perfectly integrated in the CATIA product already
- existing in this area has led us to adopt a partnership strategy with
- robotics manufacturers', says Francis Bernard, President of Dassault
- Systemes.
-
- MIECO has actively contributed to validating the new version of the
- CATIA robotics module by introducing its controller algorithms,
- developing a post-processor and an arc-welding application, thus
- constituting a complete off-line robot programming offer for these
- robots. This offer will be demonstrated at the Autofact Show
- (November 10-12 in Detroit).
-
- The success of this technical collaboration is an excellent illustration
- of the CAA partnership strategy that Dassault Systemes has established
- with robot manufacturers.
-
- 'CAA Development platform is the basis of our partnership with Dassault
- Systemes and exemplifies the synergy between our two companies.' reports
- Eizo Asakura, President of MATSUSHITA INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT CO, Ltd. 'The
- market needs are becoming so sophisticated that the effective solutions
- cannot be found by hardware alone or software alone. To meet with such
- market requirements, we, as a hardware supplier, are making our best
- efforts to enhance our application software in order to provide high
- value added systems. We believe such systems would benefit more
- customers when realized on a greater platform such as a CATIA platform.
- For our company, this Agreement provides a strategic springboard for
- our factory automation business, cultivating the potential demands of
- customers who have a plan of using robots and laser processing systems'.
-
- The offer contains three categories of products:
- - software containing dedicated algorithms for realistic simulation
- in CATIA of MIECO robot behavior.
- - an automatic generation software for arc welding tasks dedicated
- to different industrial sectors such as, for example, bridge
- construction, shipbuilding, automotive...
- - a post-processor for translating CATIA tasks into MIECO controller
- language
-
- MIECO, incorporated in 1977 as a subsidiary of MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC
- INDUSTRIAL CO., the Japanese leader in robot manufacture as well as
- being the leading group in the electric and electronic industries
- world-widely known through its 'Panasonic', 'National', 'Technics' and
- 'Quasar'brands.
-
- MIECO employs 2,200 persons. It has a Research and Development
- Institute in the United-States, two factories in Thailand and one
- factory in the United Kingdom besides its parent plants in Osaka,
- Toyama and Kaga in Japan. MIECO's products are sold in Japan and
- worldwide through its parent company's sales offices, which are located
- in 38 countries.
-
- ********************************************************
-
- ICAD and DASSAULT SYSTEMES announce development partnership
-
- Detroit, MI, November 9, 1992 -- ICAD, Inc. and Dassault
- Systemes today announced a Development Partnership agreement.
- ICAD is integrating into CATIA their knowledge-based
- engineering products. CATKBE is an advanced knowledge-based
- engineering (KBE) tool for creating ICAD product models for
- automating product design and manufacturing processes. CATIA is
- a fully integrated CAD/CAM/CAE/PIM industrial solution.
-
- ICAD has created a new product, called CATKBE. Based on open
- CATIA Application Architecture (CAA) product modeling services
- CATKBE will make complete use of available CAA services to help
- ensure CATKBE models generate CATIA data that can cooperate
- with all CAA applications. CATKBE will be continually enhanced
- to take advantage of new CAA modeling services as they are
- introduced. CATKBE will allow CATIA users to build and run a
- Knowledge Based Engineering application. The first result of
- this partnership is CATKBE R4 scheduled for delivery in March 93.
-
- "CATKBE is a key complement to the CATIA product line that
- provides an environment for intelligent assistance and
- generative design. CATKBE product and services fit completly
- into Dassault Systemes overall KBE strategy providing as of
- today, KBE services to CATIA customers. This partnership
- illustrates Dassault Systemes commitment to provide CATIA
- corporate solutions including third party products", said
- Francis Bernard, President of Dassault Systemes.
-
- "CAA offers ICAD a stable, open and rich platform for
- integrating our fully object-oriented, demand-driven product
- design language utilizing modeling services available within
- CATIA. With CATKBE, users can define complex product models and
- custom engineering applications", said Larry Rosenfeld,
- President of ICAD. "This partnership is particularly important
- to ICAD as it complements the development and marketing
- agreements we have in place with IBM".
-
- ICAD Kernel interface technology and CAA services have allowed
- ICAD to develop CATIA GII-based applications that operate
- CATKBE models or applications from within a CATIA function key
- enabling customers to model their actual parts and processes
- within the CATIA interactive environments.
-
- ICAD, Inc., founded in 1984, is a leading provider of KBE
- software and services. CATKBE increases customer
- competitiveness through the integration of knowledge based
- technology into strategic engineering applications. ICAD's
- customers include many of the leading aerospace, automotive and
- industrial equipment manufacturers around the world.
-
- CATKBE allows companies to shorten the product development
- cycle for critical components and large assemblies. With ICAD's
- CATKBE software, engineers can automate the design and
- engineering process by capturing a company's expertise as rules
- within an ICAD product model. This gives companies the ability
- to evaluate design/manufacturing alternatives quickly and
- create new designs automatically.
-
- CATKBE is available from IBM in the United States and directly
- from ICAD worldwide. ICAD has sales offices in Cambridge,
- Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Seattle, Washington, DC., Coventry,
- UK, Karlsruhe, Germany, and Paris, France.
-
- CATKBE and ICAD are registered trademarks of ICAD, Inc.
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