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BY DKSZONE AUGUST 15, 2009

CATIA V5 accumulates a lot of junk like code

errors etc. in its files during modeling,
modification etc. Due to this, CATIA files may
become corrupt and also during this process, the

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files become larger in size. To get rid of these

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problems, CATIA V5 offers CATDUA function.

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CATDUA is expanded as Catia Data Upward

Assistant.
CATDUAV5 can be run on a single CATIA file or in

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documents supported by CATDUA utility are

CATPart, CATProduct, CATProcess, CATAnalysis,
CATDrawing, and CATMaterial.

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1. Open the CATIA file for which you want to run

CATDUAV5.
2. Click File > an then choose Desk
3. In the Desk window, you can see all the Parts

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which you want to run CATDUA. Right Click on the

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4. The CATIA V5 Data Upward Assistant dialog box

appears. CATDUA V5 offers two options viz. Check
and Clean. Check option will only check the
CATIA file for errors and will give a report. It wont
fix the errors. Clean option will check for errors
and also fixes them.
In our scenario, we have selected Clean option.
You can check Open html output file box if you
would like CATIA to open the html report of the
process. The report gives details of errors, its
various levels etc. Now Click Run button.

After the process is complete, CATDUA V5 gives

information about errors and status of the file.
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The CATIA file now becomes cleaner and less

prone to corruption. The other main advantage of
running CATDUA is decrease in the size of file.
Hence your CATIA files when processed with
CATDUA, will open much faster.
For example see the difference in size of CATPart
before and after running CATDUA utility. A CATPart
of around 25MB was reduced to 21MB after the
CATPart is cleaned with CATDUA V5. For parts with
large size, this difference may be higher.

How to Run CATDUA V5

Tool in BATCH mode?
CATIA offers Batch mode for cleaning multiple
CATIA files automatically. This is very useful when
you have lots of files and want to clean them in a
single shot.
1. Open Batch Monitor of CATIA V5. (From Tools
> Utilities) and double click on CATDUAV5 in
the list of utilities.

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2. CATDUAV5 Batch mode opens up. Select

Check or Clean from the drop down list as per
your need.

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3. Select the level of checking or cleaning. All

levels is preferred most of the time.
4. In the Input Options area, click on All button
and browse through the folder which has all the
CATParts or CATIA files which needs cleaning. For
example, we have created a folder Input
CATParts in which we have stored all the
CATParts. This needs to be cleaned using
CATDUA.

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5. Specify Output folder in which CATDUA

processed CATIA files will be saved. You have the
choice to overwrite the input files with the cleaned
files too. In our illustration, we have created a
separate folder CATDUA Cleaned. It is this folder
where all the CATDUA cleaned files will be saved.

6. After specifying all the above options, Click on

Run Button.

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7. You are done. Now CATDUAV5 will clean all the

files! The files will get rid of errors and also will
load more faster.
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Kapil

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June 12, 2010 at 12:17 pm

That really works fine thnks keep updating the

tips
NTW

July 15, 2010 at 6:05 pm

Great tutorial!
Alby

November 3, 2010 at 9:22

am

I appreciate your sharing ! and i hope you dont loose

your heart ! I forgot few tips since i did not use them
otherwise i will share !
how to stop catia loading a new product on start up ?
i did it but forgotten now !
give a try , when i recall. i will share ..but i dont
know your email
Regards
Alby

November 3, 2010 at 9:31

am

here is that :
catiahotline.com/Archive07/0733.htm
Keithnicklin42

August 14, 2012 at 3:07

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which licence do I neecd?

Keithnicklin42

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which licence do I neecd?

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which licence do I neecd?

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