About Opening Designs From 3DEXPERIENCE platform

Opening a design, copies it from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to your computer and opens or inserts it in another design open in Solid Edge depending on your choice.

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Your preference settings and global preferences set by Integration Administrator control the open process. Designs can be opened to download a file updated by another user or to modify the design in Solid Edge. You can find the designs you want to open using the Search and select the designs you want to open from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform Open dialog box.

The options to open a file from 3DEXPERIENCE platform in Solid Edge are,

  • 3DEXPERIENCE > Open - Use this option to open designs from 3DEXPERIENCE platform in Solid Edge.
  • 3DEXPERIENCE > Insert - Use this option to insert the design from 3DEXPERIENCE platform in the currently active design in Solid Edge.

About Iterations and Revisions

This section explains the behavior of iterations and revisions when you use the open or insert functionality.

When you search for a design that has multiple revisions, then each revision is listed in a separate row.

For any specific revision of a design, all iterations from the revision are listed in the drop-down in the Revision (Rev) column. By default, the latest iteration of this design appears in the search results. You can select other iterations from the revision using the available drop down menu.

If the selected design has child designs then, on expanding the selected revision of the parent design and applying the selected Document Iteration view, the relevant child designs as per this view are displayed below it.

By default, the Latest Revision is the Document Iteration view. You can select a Document Iteration view as per your requirement. For more information, see Document Filter Options.

Document Iteration view is not applied on the root design. It is applied only on the child designs. For any root design, you can select an iteration using the drop down menu.

By applying the "As Built" Document Iteration view on the non-latest iterations in a revision of the root design, you can open the As Built structure of those specific iterations of the root. If the "As Built" Document Iteration view is applied on the latest iteration in a revision of the root design, then the As Built structure of the revision is retrieved.

If you have created new iterations only for the sub-structures below a root design (For example, sub-assemblies or for the components within an assembly / drawing). Thus, the root may have only one iteration while its children may have multiple iterations.

In such a case, to work on a specific iteration of the child design, you need to specifically search for the child to open its specific iteration from 3DEXPERIENCE database.

For a structure displayed below the root node, if you want to open a specific iteration in the listed revision, then it is possible to do so by manually selecting the specific iteration from the Revision (Rev) drop down menu. The structure of the root node comprising of these selected iterations can then be opened from 3DEXPERIENCE database.

Also, for the child designs that are displayed below the parent, it is not possible to select an iteration from a revision other then the one that is listed because of the Document Iteration view behavior.

To select the children from a different revision than the one that is listed, you have search them separately and then select the iteration for the specific revision using the drop down menu.

In case of an iteration conflict during 3DEXPERIENCE -> Open or Insert, the latest iteration from the conflicting iterations is opened from 3DEXPERIENCE database.

About Opening Designs With Attachments

Attachments are non Solid Edge files that are embedded or linked to a Solid Edge design. When you open a part, assembly, or drawing that has a linked attachment in Connector for Solid Edge, then the attachment is also opened along with the model.

There is a separate type SE OLE Insert that saves all the linked objects. You can search for SE OLE Insert type of objects and insert them in drawing files.

Attribute Synchronize

Attribute synchronization ensures that the attributes in the design file on your computer match the attributes of the associated ENOVIA object.

Attribute Synchronization is done each time you open a design in Solid Edge. If you are not connected to ENOVIA while opening a design, the ENOVIA Attribute Synchronization message is displayed. Click Login to ENOVIA to launch the ENOVIA Login dialog box or click Continue Load to load the design without synchronizing attributes.

For example, the Description attribute in ENOVIA is mapped to the Comments attribute on CAD file and a User A modifies the Description attribute of a design Drawing A in ENOVIA. When you search and open Drawing A from ENOVIA while being connected, then the attributes are copied from ENOVIA to the Solid Edge file.

The attributes are copied only if ENOVIA to CAD attribute mapping is defined for the GCO assigned to your role and the attribute on the ENOVIA object is different from what is defined on the CAD file.

Note: You can also synchronize attributes when you save a design to ENOVIA.

Your Integration Administrator specifies which attributes and properties can be synchronized. See X-CAD Design Management Installation and Administrator's Guide for details on mapping attributes, and enforcing attribute synchronization.

Opening Multiple Designs

Using Open or Insert dialog box you can search, select, and open or insert multiple designs from ENOVIA in Solid Edge. The Global Preferences set by the Integration Administrator or the options selected in ENOVIA Options dialog box are applied for all the selected designs.

Note: Preferences that are enforced by the Integration Administrator cannot be modified.

Selected designs are opened to the working directory and are loaded to the active session.