Opening Documents in CATIA V5 from the Compass

You can start CATIA V5, and open data from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform using the Compass. For the Open operation, you can select data from the global search results, and widgets.

  1. From the search results, drag and drop a document in the Product Structure Editor.
  2. Select the document.
  3. From the West quadrant of the Compass, select CATIA V5 from My 3D Modeling Apps.

    You can select a root document, and open the entire assembly in CATIA V5. You can also select sub-nodes under the root product, and open them in CATIA V5. In this case, you can perform Partial Open of the assembly structure in CATIA V5.

    Important:
    • You can reuse the credentials used for first connection for every subsequent open from the Compass.
    • You can perform an open from Compass only on the registered CATIA V5 installation.
    • Open from Compass does not work if you have already launched CATIA on a client computer.
    • A warning message appears in the 3DEXPERIENCE launcher, when documents are opened from the Compass. Click Always in the warning message to stop displaying this message.