Creating a Catalog or a Library of Hangers

You can create a catalog or a library of hangers.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Creating Engineering Templates

Create a Catalog of Hangers

You can create a catalog and add chapters to it. You can then add hanger parts and templates to the catalog.

Before you begin:
  • Define hangers and components.
  • Create engineering templates.
  1. In the top bar, select Add > Content.
  2. In the New Content dialog box, select Catalog.
    The Catalog dialog box is created.
  3. Enter the required name and click OK.
    The catalog is created.
  4. To insert a chapter to the catalog:
    1. Right-click the catalog and select Insert > New Chapter .
    2. In the Catalog Chapter dialog box, enter the required chapter name, say Contextual Hanger and click OK.
    The chapter is created under the catalog.
  5. Repeat the previous step until your catalog and its structure of chapters and sub chapters is finished.
  6. To add hanger parts and templates to the catalog, do the following:
    1. Right-click the chapter to which you want to add the template and select Insert > Insert Existing Object .
    2. In the Search box of the top bar, enter the required search string and click Search .
      The list of the available templates appears.
    3. Select the engineering template you want to add in the catalog and click OK.
    4. Click Share > Save > Save All to save the catalog.
    You can also add defined hangers to the catalog using the above steps.
  7. To use the catalog during the design process, you must:
    1. Add keywords to the catalog.
    2. Add components to the catalog (refer step 6 above).
    3. Add catalog to the resource table and bind this table to your project.
    Tip: For more information about creating a catalog, see Design IP Classification User's Guide: Creating a Catalog Structure.

Create a Library of Hangers

You can create new libraries for storing hangers.

  1. From the Compass, click IP Classification.
  2. Create a library.

    For more information, see IP Classification User's Guide: Creating General Libraries.

  3. In the library, create separate classes for different resource categories.

    For more information about creating classes, see IP Classification User's Guide: Creating General Classes.

  4. Add items to the classes.
    Tip: You can generate libraries from existing catalogs. To do so, right-click a catalog and select Generate new Library Structure.

    For more information, see Design IP Classification User's Guide: Generating New Library from Catalog.