What's New

This page describes recent changes in 3DEXPERIENCE Dashboard Apps.

This page discusses:

R2022x FD01 (FP.2205)

ADVANCED FILTERING: Using Attribute criteria

You can now select the Is Empty and Is Not Empty operators to filter objects based on the status of an attribute value (empty or not defined).
Benefits: You can quickly retrieve all objects with an empty value for a given attribute, or if the object does not have the attribute.
For more information, see Filtering a Structure Using Attribute Criteria

ADVANCED FILTERING: Using Unit Criteria in a Configuration Filter

You now receive a warning message if you try to create a configuration filter with unit criteria combined with any other type of configuration criteria, where at least one unit from the model dictionary is in the allocated state (allocated to either the model version, manufacturing plan, or product configuration).
After you acknowledge the warning message, all criteria other than the unit criteria are automatically removed from the configuration filter specification.
Benefits: You cannot successfully create a configuration filter with unit criteria combined with any other type of configuration criteria.
For more information, see Filtering a Structure Using Unit Criteria

ADVANCED FILTERING: Using Change Action Criteria in a Configuration Filter

You can now use a change action to filter your configured structure, with or without taking into consideration any model criteria.
If you specify model criteria in addition to change action criteria, both are used in the configuration filter. If you specify only change action criteria, no model criteria is used in the configuration filter.
Benefits: You can now include change actions as criteria in a configuration filter.
For more information, see Filtering a Structure Using Change Action Criteria

ADVANCED FILTERING: Administration—Improving Configuration Filter Performance: Product Configuration

You can clear the new Enable Product Configuration Instantiation check box in the Collaborative Spaces Control Center to improve the performance of configuration filters. This check box is selected by default.
Clearing the new Enable Product Configuration Instantiation check box improves configuration filter performance by removing functionality that is used during configuration filtering. It does so by:
  • Removing the Insert Product Configuration command from native apps.
  • Remove thing Add Existing Product Configuration command from the Engineering Release app.
Benefits: If you do not use the Insert Product Configuration and Add Existing Product Configuration commands, you can improve the performance of configuration filters by clearing the Enable Product Configuration Instantiation check box.
For more information, see Configuring Effectivity

ADVANCED FILTERING: Administration—Improving Configuration Filter Performance: Composition Matrix

You can clear the new Enable Composition Matrix check box in the Collaborative Spaces Control Center to improve the performance of configuration filters. This check box is selected by default.
Clearing the new Enable Composition Matrix check box improves configuration filter performance by removing functionality that is used during configuration filtering. It does so by:
  • Removing all authoring commands from the Master Composition tab of the model's Logical Features category in Variant Management and Variant Analysis and Reuse.
  • Removing the View Design Effectivity Matrix command from the Reports menu in the model's Model Versions category in Variant Management and Variant Analysis and Reuse.
  • Removing the Reports menu and its Manufacturing Plan Matrix command from the Derivations tab in the model's Manufacturing Plans category in Variant Management and Variant Analysis and Reuse.
  • Removing the Edit Design Effectivity command from the Actions menu in the model version's Properties tab in Variant Management and Variant Analysis and Reuse.
  • Removing the Manufacturing Plan Matrix command from the Actions menu and the Edit Manufacturing Plan Breakdown command from the Reports menu in the Composition tab of the model version's Manufacturing Plans category in Variant Management and Variant Analysis and Reuse.
  • Removing the Manufacturing Plans Breakdown category from manufacturing plans in Variant Management and Variant Analysis and Reuse.
Benefits: If you do not use these commands, you can improve the performance of configuration filters by clearing the Enable Composition Matrix check box.
For more information, see Configuring Effectivity

LIFECYCLE: Modifying the Display of the Revision Explorer

You can now choose to display customer-defined attributes for the objects in graph view and graph list view. You can also display the attributes of the objects in the order of your choice.
Benefits: Displaying customer-defined attributes that are relevant to your activity improves your productivity when you are working in the Revision Explorer.
For more information, see Customizing the Display of the Revision Explorer

LIFECYCLE: Creating a Revision

When you create a revision of a model version (or a subtype), you can now choose to insert the new revision before the one you selected.
Benefits: Creating intermediate revisions allows you to adapt to extraordinary circumstances or delays.
For more information, see Creating a Revision

LIFECYCLE: Duplicating a Product Structure with CATIA V5 Design Tables

When you duplicate a product structure and select the Include structural objects option, the related CATIA V5 design tables are also duplicated.
Benefits: You do not need to duplicate design tables separately.
For more information, see Duplicating Objects

LIFECYCLE: Duplicating Objects and Creating Branches

Administrators can now customize the behavior of the Duplicate, Duplicate Advanced, and New Branch commands with the PLMAuthoringDefaultPropagationScope business logic.
Benefits: Administrators can automatically exclude some objects from the scope of the Duplicate or New Branch operations, or assign the Reuse action instead of Duplicate to some objects during a Duplicate Advanced operation.
For more information, see Duplicating Objects Duplicating Objects with Advanced Options Creating a Branch

PROPERTIES: Administration—Customizing the Display of Properties with Mask Files

Administrators can now download and upload mask files from the Options tab to customize the display of properties, and save a backup of the current customization.
For example, you can customize which properties are mandatory, or which properties users can edit.

You can also use the groups section to create groups of attributes and specify the order in which you want to display them.

Benefits: The access to the mask files is facilitated from the user interface, and the customization of the Properties panel is available on the cloud.
For more information, see Downloading and Uploading Configuration Files from the Options Tab

PROPERTIES: Display of Classified Data

When an object is classified, in the Properties tab, the classification title is now displayed in the Classification headers, instead of the class name and attribute group name.
If there is no classification title, the class name is displayed.
Benefits: The classification title enables you to easily identify in which classification the object is classified.

PROPERTIES: Relations Tab

You can now open objects in Relations widget from the Relations tab.
Benefits: When you open the Relations widget from the Relations tab, the objects that were expanded in the tab are opened, and the selection is maintained.
For more information, see Relations

RELATIONS: Displaying Objects in Graph View

You can now use the Datagrid View command to switch to a datagrid view, that displays the objects in a table.
Benefits: The datagrid view displays all the information available in graph view in a more condensed way, which gives you a wider view of the objects loaded in the widget and lets you process a large number of objects.
For more information, see User Interface: Toolbar User Interface: Context Menus Customizing the View

RELATIONS: Administration—Relations

Administrators can now use the Relations Control Center widget to customize Relations widget.
In the Relations Control Center widget, administrators can create, edit, duplicate, and delete relations sets. They can also assign and remove roles and user groups to relations sets, as well as assign a default relations set to other apps.
Benefits: Relations Control Center allows you to create or edit relations sets and control the use of relations sets based on the roles and user groups.
For more information, see Relations Administration

WORK UNDER CHANGE ACTION: Viewing Applicability Expression

When you work under a change action, you can now view the applicabilty expression from the Work Under dialog box.
Benefits: Using this option, you can easily view the applicability expression without navigating to any other app.
For more information, see Starting Work Under a Change Action

R2022x GA

ACTION BAR: Improved Flyout

The flyout zone on touch and non-touch devices has been redesigned and is now part of the command button.
Benefits: You now have an easier access to commands grouped into flyouts.
For more information, see Action Bar

ADVANCED FILTERING: Filtering a Configured Structure Using Allocated Units

You can now filter a configured structure using an allocated unit and the product configurations associated with it, in addition to the model versions and manufacturing plans associated with it.
Benefits: You can now include the variant/option criteria defined in a product configuration in a configuration filter based on allocated units.
For more information, see Filtering a Structure Using Unit Criteria

COLLABORATION: Sharing Objects

A new Sharing tab is available in the Properties widget and Information panel.
In the Sharing tab, you can:
  • View who the object is shared with
  • Modify the permissions
  • Remove permissions
  • Share the object with additional users, user groups, or collaborative space/organization pairs.

The user interface of the Share command has also been updated to only let you share objects with additional users, user groups, or collaborative space/organization pairs.

Benefits: You can now share an object with other users, granting them responsibilities to access, and perhaps edit, the object.
For more information, see Sharing Objects with Other Users

COLLABORATION: Reserve and Unreserve Commands Renamed

The Reserve and Unreserve commands have been renamed Lock and Unlock.
The various user interface elements—for example, properties or column headers—have also been updated to reflect this change.
Benefits: The name and purpose of the Reserve and Unreserve commands are clearer.

LIFECYCLE: Creating Revisions in the Primary and Secondary Revision Format

Administrators can now activate the Primary and Secondary revision format for all Engineering Definition, Engineering Evaluation, and Engineering Resource object types.
This format activates a secondary ID, that is incremented every time you create a revision of a non-Released object. The primary ID is incremented every time you create a revision of a Released object.
Benefits: The Primary and Secondary revision format enables you to differentiate major changes (identified by the primary ID) from design iterations (identified by the secondary ID).
For more information, see About Revision Formats

LIFECYCLE: Duplicating Drawings with Advanced Options

The advanced options of the Duplicate command are now available for 3DEXPERIENCE drawings with CAD master other than CATIA V5 (that is, AutoCAD, Inventor, Solid Edge, and SOLIDWORKS).
When you duplicate a drawing, you can select the related objects you want to duplicate at the same time (for example, its related part), which automatically moves the connection between them to their duplicates.
Benefits: The advanced options of the Duplicate command give you more control over the resulting duplicate.
For more information, see Duplicating Objects with Advanced Options

LIFECYCLE: Change Maturity Command Renamed

The Change Maturity command has been renamed Maturity in the action bar and context menu.
The Maturity name is also used in properties, and column headers of the Revision Explorer.
Benefits: The same Maturity name is now used for the command and the properties.
For more information, see Changing Maturity

NAVIGATING: Specifying a Mouse Profile

Three mouse control preferences are now available in Me > Preferences to let you manipulate 3D views in your dashboard app.
Note: The SIMPLE mouse control preference has been removed. You can use 3DEXPERIENCE, which includes the SIMPLE preference.
Benefits: The mouse control preference you select is used in dashboard apps that feature 3D modeling, editing, rendering, and viewing. 3DEXPERIENCE lets you use common mouse gestures to manipulate 3D views with actions like select, pan, zoom, and rotate. CATIA and SOLIDWORKS users can work with the mouse control gestures they are already familiar with.
For more information, see Selecting a Mouse Profile for Dashboard Apps Mouse Profiles

VIEWING: Selecting and Preselecting Objects in the 3D area

When you click an object, the highlight color is now blue. When you hover over an object, the prehighlight color is now white.
Benefits: You now have a clearer distinction between selected and preselected objects.

VIEWING: Using the Navigation Cache in the Visual Quality Manager

You can now specify the maximum size for the local database where your downloaded models are stored.
Benefits: Downloading and reloading models is now faster.
For more information, see Managing the Visualization Quality

VIEWING: Quality Manager Presets

The quality preset is now automatically computed based on your graphics card. If you apply another quality, you can recover the recommended configuration through the new Recommended preset.
Benefits: You can now benefit from the best visual quality without compromising performance.
For more information, see Managing the Visualization Quality

VIEWING: View Modes Improvements

White Experience is now the default ambience and Basic for design is now the default material.
Benefits: You now have better mirror, shadows, and lighting effects with the default ambience and material.
For more information, see Managing the View Modes