Overview

Collaborative Design enables peer-to-peer collaboration between all participants across the extended enterprise in order to promote the sharing of data and ideas. The Collaborative Design User's guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the product.

Collaborative Design in a Nutshell


  • Collaborative design from within mechanical design and shape workbenches such as Part Design, Generative Shape Design or Functional Modeling Parts
  • Collaboration between communities

Collaborative Design is built on standard collaboration tools. With Collaborative Design, designers can communicate and exchange data around the 3D product definition. Integrated into the collaborative Heads-Up Display, colleagues and partners can share and exchange design changes.

Before Reading this Guide

Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 6 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 6 products. It also describes the general layout of Version 6 and the interoperability between workbenches.

You should also be familiar with collaboration tools and in particular, with the Heads-Up Display.


  • For more information on the Heads-Up Display, see Infrastructure User's Guide: User Tasks: Collaborating: Working in the Heads-Up Display..
  • For more information on collaboration tools, see Infrastructure User's Guide: User Tasks: Instant Collaboration. .

Finally, you should know that CATIA Live Shape constraints are not supported in Collaborative Design.

Getting the Most Out of this Guide

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step user tasks, which cover all product functionalities.