The Catalogue Editor

The catalogue editor is also used in steel engineering. The catalogue editor enables you to limit the selection of particular parts and to assign them a priority.

For example, you can

• define instances as main part and sub-part,
• completely block standard parts for use in HiCAD,
• insert additional standard parts or
• change the data of existing standard parts

Furthermore, you can use the catalogue editor effectively to define factory standard catalogues and to enhance the catalogues for type parts.

The Catalogue Editor is an external program which you start by calling the CATEDITOR command in the EXE directory of HiCAD. For detailed information, please see the catalogue editor's online Help.

If you are exchanging drawings with other users, please be sure to pay special attention to the following:

• If your drawing contains standard parts or standard processingsfrom changed standard part catalogues, you will also need to supply the changed catalogue files during data exchange. These files are stored as IPT files in the HiCAD Catalogue subdirectory.
• Standard parts and standard processings in your drawing which do not exist in the recipient's standard part catalogue cannot be reconstructed there – e.g. in the case of a feature recalculation or a bolting update.
• This note has no bearing on data exchange via interfaces.

Prototype Beams (3-D SE) • Factory Beams (3-D SE)