8 answers

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  KFZ-Schule about 1 year ago

  CATIA V6 is more an All-in-one solution for the industry, including a lot of special solutions, mechanical construcion, knowledge, documentation, ..... It is not only CAD-Software like V5.
  So you need an IT-infrastructure (Server-Client).

  greetings

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  Sudhir Gill about 1 year ago

  As far as i knew we can't save file to hard disk in CATIA v6.

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     EDISON PHOENIX about 1 year ago

     ya thanks...

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  Alireza SKH about 1 year ago

  so where can we save our file?

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     Sudhir Gill about 1 year ago

     better option, don't switch to CATIA v6 :P

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     Sudhir Gill about 1 year ago

     http://www.3dcadforums.com/catia-forum/3533-save-file-catia-v6.html

     "Posted By MCHITJIAN on 22 Sep 2008 08:39 AM

     Gentlemen,

     I've been playing with V6 here for the past month or so and a major change is that it is no longer a "file" based system. The old notion of files are now called "objects" and are stored in a database. The actual CATIA code is stored locally on your machine, but all data is stored "remotely" on the database. If any of you oldtimers remember the old mainframe days where all the files were stored remotely, it is very similar to that.

     Files as we used to know them are called either "products", or "representations". There are many other object names, but for most of us manufacturing types we'll be dealing with those two objects. What you'll find initially the most challenging is learning how to navigate all the objects in the database. There are various search techniques to learn, since there is no longer a "File/open" command available. That is what I found to be the most different from V5. You create a product/object, save it, but then trying to find it requires entirely different techniques.

     As far as manufacturing being in V6, it is all there, except that everything is under DELMIA. So you can load CATIA code, but you wont see any manufacturing workbenches until you load the manufacturing from DELMIA. Interestingly, when you launch CATIA V6, if you have the DELMIA code loaded you will see the manufacturing workbenches. You can also launch CATIA using the DELMIA icon and get everything too. I'm not quite sure how everything is going to be packaged for the end users, since at IBM we have the "all in one" license which grants us access to the entire CATIA suite of products.

     Once you get past the database, the manufacturing workbenches look, feel and work the same as V5. All the manufacturing docs are found under DELMIA. I dont see any major differences in what you are used to now. So you should not require any retraining as far as I can see.

     To reiterate, the major change in V6 is the database and the way data is stored. Once you get into the functional CATIA workbenches, the NC looks pretty much the same. The database has to be installed and configured and is not a small task. We've been told by DS that there should be an "express" or "light" edition of V6 for the smaller users in the future."

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  gunakar 10 months ago

  hey bro's we can save files in catia v6.........just after completing ur model.. open file menu and click creation preferences. and then a smal dialogu box opens press enter button and now again open file menu and click export and then cselect the destination and selec the format IGEs which is standard and u r done........

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  DIpesh sahoo 3 months ago

  propagate the model then add It to your favorIte .On update agaIn propagate the fIle to save the modIfcatIon It wIll be auto updated In your favourIte.

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  necmiyildiz5 7 months ago

  Dear All
  V6 is hybrit,there are two methot of read and write datas. One of them is file based method( You can read CATIA V5 files & xcad files like step,igs )
  other method is server based file managment. (There are some servers ( application server, file server etc.)and file managed by the systems.
  ın this system user just propagete the files.

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  Sudhir Gill 3 months ago

  There is local save option also, Export option also in CATIA v6 to save to local disk.

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  Praveen Mulabagula 3 months ago

  You can certainely save your models in Catia V6, but in database not locally.
  After having saved your files in database, from there you can export them to local drives(3DXML files).In pirated Catia you can never save your models as they are not configured with database.
  You can save..., but only to nutral frormats.