user catsettings

[sudhakarn]

Hi friends,

It sounds odd to ask this question after so many years of experience in CATIA.But still can t help asking it.I want to clearly understand the reason why we need to create a folder for user catsettings and need to dump it with a no of catsettings file by default after a fresh installation.We have this process here in our company where we need to fill this folder with the catsettings files by default.As far as i understand it is only updated or generated when the user does some settings changes.can anyone please clarify?

 

[itsmyjob]

here we go:

catsetting keeps catia settings for user to use.

A catia admin would define a admin or referencesetting folder in the environment file.

each catia environment can define refcatsetting and user catsettings folders, so you can have several env with setting for each of them.

When the admin start catia and define default settings, they go in that referencesetting folder.

When a user start CATIA he/she will get settings from ref folder if exist or get default (OOTB) CATIA settings.

when user have strange behavior in CATIA he can remove settings from user folder and start CATIA again with clean settings from ref folder.

Now when CATIA is upgraded the structure of the CATSettings file could change so if you start CATIA R25 with R24 CATSetting it could not work properly.

Some use a script(check online CATIA doc) that would translate CATSetting to XML (not sure here) so you can export from R24 and import in R25. But you might be missing change or new settings.

That's why we do not mix R24 with R25 CATSettings.

Eric N.
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[sudhakarn]

Hi itsmyjob,
That was wonderful and comprehensive.But still i would like to know if the user has issues in the performance of his CATIA,should he be copying the catsettings from the ref.settings folder and placing them in the user settings folder or should be go for starting a new session with the user settings session empty.My question is whether the user settings folder should be empty or filled with a good copy of catsettings before going for a new session.Again thanks a lot.

 

[itsmyjob]

if the user experience some unusual behavior in catia he/she should:

close catia (as closing catia write catsettings in user folder)
remove catsettings from user folder
start catia again (this will read ref catsettings first.

we have user "cleaning" their catsettings every time they start catia.

I could not say if "clean" catsetting would improve performance, what I know is it does improve stability (avoiding the infamous COTT)

Eric N.
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[sudhakarn]

Hi Itsmyjob,
Thanks a lot for the insights.very helpful.