CATIA V4 UNIX Systems

It's a bit late now to be interested in how your CATIA V4 Systems could have been configured, but here is a brief summary of just some of the options...

• Edit your .Xdefaults file, to improve the speed of selection (by using the four Catia.mainWindow... translations: #override <Btn1Down>: Arm() Activate() declarations).
• Similarly, help selectability by increasing the size of the YES/NO/INT permanent function buttons (via the Catia.mainWindow*intYesNoForm declarations), and also define colours for the most used permanent functions (such as SP/DR, 2D/3D and BR).
• Reassign the $CATMSTR variable so that the catadm directory controls all modifications to your CATIA system declaration files.
• Reassign the $CAT_DB variable to keep user data out of the catadm directory.
• Edit the CATFRM.dcls declaration file to make the SP/DR, 2D/3D and BR permanent function labels larger, (e.g. CATFRM.PERMFUNC(6).LABEL1 = ' SP ';), and to always display the current Function.
• Edit the CATIA.dcls declaration file to set catia.ANALYSIS_WINDOW = FALSE so that the ANALYSIS Function automatically displays the ANALYSIS Window.   Reassign the catia.BUFFER_PLOT, catia.PBAN and catia.PEN_SORT variables to /tmp to keep workfile data out of $CAT_SITE.   Reassign catia.roll, save and catrace to avoid file duplication or full filesystems.
• Consider introducing a dedicated CATFIL.dcls declaration file to simplify the management of Model and other user data file.   The CATLIC.dcls declaration files can also be substantially improved.