zonplm.com? another CAx website?

You may say that there are enough CAx websites out there, why do you want to launch another one?

1.  There aren’t any website that I know of exist specifically dedicated to CATIA/VPLM administration and programming.
2. It is tool difficult to get the V5 answers you need: you have to go coe, 3ds forum and many other sites before you can find a answer. (well, if there IS one there).

Unique CATIA V5/V6 and VPLM programming and Admin resource

For these and other reasons, I started zonplm.com.  whether it will satisfy your need and mine is up to time to decide, but this is the first step of a long and intriguing journey for sure, at least for me.

More about V6 tools: Customization and migration

Suresh Attuluri at Dassault Systemes and Brian Baker at IBM kindly replied my questions posted on Linkedin group PLM Groups and CAA V5/V6 interFace Forum regarding tools availabe from DS to help customers migrate from V5 to V6.

here is the summary of their replies:

1. CATIA customization will still be done using CAA
2. CATIA automation can be done either using existing IDE such as VS or with V6 tools
3. V6 PLM customization/collaboration, which is basically MatrixOne based to my understanding, will be devloped on the new V6 tools as described in my previous blog.
4. “On migration, DS has developed multiple different tools to maintain co-existence and migration with SmarTeam, ENOVIA VPM V4, ENOVIA LCA V5, and Filebase for both V4 and V5 CATIA. The capabilities of each are varied, and all will be greatly enhanced in 2009x release (this December) and 2010 (1Q 2009). ” ( from Brian Baker’s email to me)
5. please feel free to provide your comments on this.

V6 Development Tools

the “RDV ENOVIA Studio Developer Edition” product replaces the following CAA V5 RADE product

• CDV CAA – C++ BASE DEVELOPMENT Configuration
• CUT CAA – C++ Unit Test Manager Product

the “RDR ENOVIA Studio Architect Edition” product replaces the following CAA V5 RADE product

• CDC CAA – C++ EXTENDED DEVELOPMENT Configuration

the “VLC ENOVIA Live Collaboration” product replaces the following CAA V5 RADE product

• DMC CAA – Data Model Customizer

More about V6 Changes

Yuriy Dudko

Software Developer at VISTAGY, Inc. has posted some comments about changes in V6 on linkedin group CAA V5/V6 interFace Forum.  

I have reproduced the comments at http://z-on-plm.blogspot.com

Enjoy!

 

CAA V6: Next Generation of CAA V5?

CAA V6 brings a lot of changes to the CAA V5 platform.   The biggest change is that there is no CATProduct, CATPart documents any more. besides these changes in storage mechanism ( in V6, everything is stored in MatrixOne database).  the whole programming model and API has not changed.  this is a good news for any serious CAA adopters or software partners.

check out at http://z-on-plm.blogspot.com for a concise review.

Hello CAA V5 world!

CAA V5 developers have a lot of questions, but it is very difficult for them to get the answers they need in an efficient and effective way.  This blog is Z-On-PLM’s first attempt to attack this problem.

Stay tuned!