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Stop CATIA from creating new product on startup

Stop CATIA from creating new product on startup

Stop CATIA from creating new product on startup

(OP)
Every time I start CATIA it opens a new product document. Is there any way to stop this? I want CATIA to do nothing on open.

Nick

Light structural commercial aircraft parts
PCDMIS 4.3 CAD++, CATIA V5 R20, NX6
APM Consortium Inc.
Cambridge Ontario, Canada

RE: Stop CATIA from creating new product on startup

Add the following variables to your Environment System variables\

Blank Catia
CatNoStartDocument = 1

No spash screen on startup
CNextSplashScreen = no

needed when you are using R22 and LUM licensing.
DSLICENSING = Legacy

Regards,
Derek

Win XP64
R20/21, 3DVIA Composer 2012, ST R20
Dell T7400 16GB Ram
Quadro FX 4800 - 1.5GB

RE: Stop CATIA from creating new product on startup

(OP)
Awesome. Thank you(s).

Nick

Light structural commercial aircraft parts
PCDMIS 4.3 CAD++, CATIA V5 R20, NX6
APM Consortium Inc.
Cambridge Ontario, Canada

RE: Stop CATIA from creating new product on startup

The simplest way to stop this is simply inserting
CATNoStartDocument=yes
into your CATSettings. You don't need to create any environment variable or anything else.

RE: Stop CATIA from creating new product on startup

(OP)
Is that not the exact thing as the original answer?

Nick

Light structural commercial aircraft parts
PCDMIS 4.3 CAD++, CATIA V5 R20, NX6
APM Consortium Inc.
Cambridge Ontario, Canada

RE: Stop CATIA from creating new product on startup

There are 3 locations to add the variables.
System Properties --> Environment Variables --> User Variables --- only good for that user and any version Catia
--> System Vars --- good for all users and any version of Catia

Catia environment by default C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\DassaultSystemes\CATEnv\CATIA.V5R20.B20.txt (name and location may vary)
Any setting in the Catia environment file will supersede the System properties.


I prefer the System var location, IT sets the variables once.

Regards,
Derek

Win XP64
R20/21, 3DVIA Composer 2012, ST R20
Dell T7400 16GB Ram
Quadro FX 4800 - 1.5GB

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