Catia file protection

[FabienF]

Hello everyone,

Can someone tell how to prevent a user from saving a product after the latter made some modifications.
The thing is that I have a macro that launches Catia from VBA , loads a specified product automatically and hides some nodes in it then the macro stops. Then, the user can do captures, drawings or whatever...but I don't want him to be able to save the modifications he may eventually do and thus lose the original product.(If not, erors would occur for future users of my macro vba macro)

I thought there might be a file protection option in CATIA or another method to achieve my objective?

Thanking you in advance.

 

[jackk]

Can't you make the file read-only to prevent modifications?

 

[ferdo]

I understand that you use a sort of environment product...

A solution might be what jackk already said (but users will have to face some warnings), another solution is to make your users understand that they have to delete your env product before any saving (I know is not the ideal way, eventually you can tell them to use another macro which will put your env file in initial status and after that save everything...).

Best solution would be to step into the modern times, use a PDM/PLM solution.

Regards
Fernando

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