Using the Workspaces Browser for Model Editor

The objective of this functionality is to make workspace selection in Model Editor easier and faster. By this means, you will be able to quickly find and filter a given DETAIL in a large list.

In CATIA Model Editor, DETAILS are not alphanumerically ordered.

This task shows you how to:

  1. Open a model containing a Detail and several Dittos. You can choose to open a model with a limited number of tab pages. For this, the number of tab pages will be pre-defined by an environment variable.

  2. Select one Ditto (*DIT7) under *MASTER.

  3. In the CATIA V6 Bar, select View > Change Workspace .

    It can also be reached from the Model Edition toolbar (third icon):



    The following window appears:



    *DIT7 is contained in the current and active workspace and it has been selected in *MASTER. The workspace DETAIL 8 is highlighted in the Workspace List because it is a Detail pointed by this Ditto: *DIT7. If you do not select any component in the specification tree or if you select any component except Dittos, by default this is the active workspace that is highlighted in the Workspace Navigator window.

    This window is modal: as far as it is not closed, the user can only interact with it. All workspaces appear in alphabetical order except *MASTER and *DRAFT which are always in first positions.

    The Current Workspace is displayed in a small window under the selection frame. The Type column informs you that the workspace type is 2D or 3D.

    The Comment column allows you to see if a Detail has a Comment. Here is another example with a Comment associated to a Detail, you can read: "MAX 48 CHAR COMMENT OF THE DETAIL".



  4. You can also Filter a DETAIL. In this other example, the Filter provides workspace pre-selection. The "star" meta-character is available in this filter, for instance: *UB*.



  5. By clicking a workspace name (in the list) and OK, the user makes the selection window disappear and the workspace is displayed in CATIA.

    By clicking a workspace and Activate or by double-clicking a workspace name, it is displayed in CATIA.

    Close allows to quit the command.

    Tip: In order to get help on the Filter functionality, pass your cursor over Filter.

Alphanumerical Reorder of DETAILS

This section describes how to reorder the DETAILS tab alphanumerically.

Here is an example when the Model Editor Details tabs are not alphanumerically ordered:

The new behavior is illustrated by the following picture:

Only DETAILS tabs are ordered, *MASTER and *DRAFT tabs always remain n the first positions. The reorder operation is automatically activated when opening a model. This reorder is used in two workbenches:


  • CATIA Model Editor

  • DMU Navigator (only 2D workspaces are shown).