Running Catia in UNIX?
Running Catia in UNIX?
(OP)
Our company currently has a single seat of Catia running on Windows XP 64bit. We are looking to purchase 1 or more seats in the near future, but we were curious if anyone had seen major performance benefits by running UNIX machines instead of Windows? Is there special hardware requirements to run UNIX, or can I simply install it on the same computer?
Thanks in advance,
Toby
Thanks in advance,
Toby





RE: Running Catia in UNIX?
RE: Running Catia in UNIX?
There are also another criteria which you have to take in consideration....
Would you like to develop your own automation tools (in other words, what would you like to use CATScripts, catvbs or catvba?) You can use vba only in Windows..
Do you want for your users to create office documents from their workstations?
If I remember correctly there are also differences in hardware prices...
About stability...I don't know what to say, but from my experience I noticed that CATIA on UNIX its not crashing so fast when you are loading huge assemblies...and from what I know, all major aircraft and auto companies are using UNIX (maybe because they already have these hardwares and OS?)
Anyway, in some companies they are buying also new UNIX workstations (maybe because they have some old procedures and standards and they don't want to change?)
Do you have a PDM system? Or another collaborative enterprise system?
Think in the future....
Regards
Fernando
RE: Running Catia in UNIX?
As for performance - CATIA V5 was written for Windows. Running it under any flavor of Unix involves some interpretation of the Windows calls and conversion to Unix calls - which does not help performance at all. Way back in the early versions of V5, It barely ran in Unix while it ran just fine in Window. It's not quite so bad any more.
RE: Running Catia in UNIX?
One other thing that bothers me about the PC side is how we maintain our drawings for EC releases. We want to keep all old release levels in one document so here's what happens: I copy/paste the entire page in UNIX, and all dimensions, GD&T and notes are there in the copied page views. If I open the same drawing file on the PC and do the exact same thing, half or better of the dimensions will be lost in multiple views. I am not sure if it has something to do with the Ford-specific system settings of V5 on UNIX or just one of those things, but it is a major time waster on the PC to have to interrogate view to view to make sure all the stuff is there. So for now, I copy pages on the UNIX box to preserve everything, then just run the update view function on the PC. Copying views to a new page in UNIX is no help either, gives me the same problem as seen on the PC.