Presentation about CATIA Commands Lists in DEXPERIENCE and V5. Creating macros from Excel file with this list (available inside presentation).

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Fernando Petre, Technical Manager, CAD/PLM Consultant
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CATIA Commands Lists in 3DEXPERIENCE and V5.
Creating macros from Excel with this list.

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In CATIA V5 there is a command in View menu which is showing a Command Lists… available for what
licenses you have.

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This list can be pretty long if you have access to several
workbenches (in my case I have an AL3 which includes everything).
Selecting a command and clicking on OK or by simply double click
on a command in the list will launch that command in CATIA V5.
Just some of these commands have shortcuts (like New… which is
CTRL+N for example) and none of them are shown in the list. Also
there is no icon available in this Commands List panel.
Of course, CATIA will let you customize what ever you want,
assigning shortcuts or icons with methods which can be found easy
in documentation (or internet).

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In 3DEXPERIENCE this command is not so visible as in CATIA V5 but is there. For the beginning you
need a little adjustment for what is coming on screen by default.

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Click the Right Mouse Button to sett the Status Bar and Action Pad for a much easier way of work.

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In 3DEXPERIENCE Status Bar write like in CATIA V5 c:Commands List and hit Enter keyboard. This will
bring a new panel in front. Pick Commands List

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This list has same functionalities like in V5 but is coming with much
more information's, you are able to see the icons and also the
shortcuts.
All these commands can be deployed on the Action Bar in their
corresponding workbenches, even if they don’t have assigned icons.
A button with text will be deployed on the Action Bar.

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In both cases, 3DEXPERIENCE or CATIA V5, this list can be useful because you can use those
commands in CATIA programming using CATIA.StartCommand (“Your Desired Command Name”). Most
of the usual commands are available in an Excel worksheet created for this purpose.

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Because in 3DEXPERIENCE macros are saved in the database, I created a simple Excel macro to copy
the code inside the clipboard and let user paste in the macro editor inside the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
For CATIA V5, the Excel macro will create a CATScript file inside c:Temp folder and will run directly the
CATScript in CATIA V5 from that location.
For a even more convenient way of use, there is also a macro which is writing to the clipboard only the
CATIA.StartCommand(“your_command_choice”) to the clipboard.
Be aware that this is done just for exemplification only, you might encounter some errors because
macros are not checking if the commands are available for the current workbench in session (for both
cases, 3DEx or V5).

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Running the desired macro from Excel in CATIA V5.
Note that in Excel macro there is an Array which is
including some characters like Space, / , comma, or
point . This Array was created in order to replace
those characters with underscore, so the saved
CATScript can be launched directly from EXCEL to
CATIA. You can add other characters if you need.
Having spaces or forbidden characters in the name
of the CATscript file will cause errors (just for
launching from Excel.)

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Running Excel macro to create a simple CATScript in 3DEXPERIENCE.

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When you paste the code from clipboard directly in macro editor in 3DEXPERIENCE you will notice that you
will have only one line which will cause obviously an error executing that CATScript.
To correct this, I suggest you first to use Write editor, paste the code from clipboard inside Write, then copy
the formatted code once again in the clipboard and finally paste in macro editor in 3DEXPERIENCE.
For your information, the Excel list for 3DEXPERIENCE contains 740 commands , CATIA V5 has 1234
commands.
The excel file is available free here:
Microsoft Excel
Macro-Enabled Worksheet

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Thank you!