HD71271: ELECTRICAL (EHF) - ELECTRICAL SOFTWARE ERROR INSIDE THE FLATTEN COMMAND

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Scenario :
  1- File / Open the CATProduct file
  2- Create a new Product and go to Electrical
  Harness Flattening workbench
  3- Define Flattening parameters
  4- Extract the model in the new CATProduct
  5- Flatten the 3D model with use of the "Select All
  Branches" command (select the fixed point at the
  begining of the harness)
  6- Select OK
  Result :
  The following error message appears :
  Electrical Software Error inside the Flatten
  command
  Expected Result :
  Flattening should be done without error message.
  .
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• Electrical (EHF) - Electrical software error inside the flatten
  command
  Scenario :
  1- File / Open the CATProduct file
  2- Create a new Product and go to Electrical
  Harness Flattening workbench
  3- Define Flattening parameters
  4- Extract the model in the new CATProduct
  5- Flatten the 3D model with use of the "Select All
  Branches" command (select the fixed point at the
  begining of the harness)
  6- Select OK
  Result :
  The following error message appears :
  Electrical Software Error inside the Flatten
  command
  Expected Result :
  Flattening should be done without error message.
  .
  

Problem conclusion

• THIS PROBLEM WILL BE FIXED ON CATIA VERSION
  5 RELEASE 19 GA LEVEL.
  NOTE THAT THIS PROBLEM WILL ALSO BE FIXED
  ON V5R18SP04
  Incident Diagnosis
  The behavior is dependant on Extract option.
  With Extract New From, Extract is OK, Flatten is OK
  without Electrical Software Error, but there are
  some update errors on protections on doing Update
  after Flatten. There is one more problem - there is
  one support through which 3 BNSs are routed.
  After flatten, support remains on route of 1 BNS
  and green lines are created for showing links
  between the other 2 BNSs and this support. The
  position of green lines was incorrect.
  With Extract through Synchronize, Extract is OK,
  Flatten is OK and Update after Flatten is also OK.
  Though 5 protections are not extracted with this
  option and they are listed in the error table of the
  Extract html report. It is because they have broken
  external references in 3D Design.
  It is not possible to understand why some
  protections have broken external references or bad
  pointings to extremities.
  Correction Explanation
  Extract New From :
  A correction has been done to get the green lines
  at the good position.
  For update errors on protections after flatten, the
  reason is bad data for these protections in 3D
  Design. Some of these protections have broken
  external references and for others, their end point
  external references point to the wrong extremity
  point of wrong branchables (they point branchables
  which are not covered by this protection). Since
  the design data is bad, there is no way to correct
  this problem automatically during Extract New From
  + Flatten. The good way to correct this problem is
  explained in the by-pass section.
  Answer and By-Pass
  With option 'Extract New From' :
  On Update after Flatten, an update diagnostic
  comes. User can use center graph to find the
  protection having problem and then desactivate
  these protections. At the end these protections
  should be deleted from 3D Flatten view. This way
  the user gets the list of protections which have bad
  data in 3D Design. Then user can find these
  protections in 3D Design and correct them using
  edit protection command for example. Now, the
  design data is correct and user can simply use
  Synchronize command in 3D Flatten and these
  protections will be added in the 3D Flatten view.
  With 'Extract through Synchronize' :
  5 protections are not extracted and they are listed
  in the error table of Extract html report. User can
  correct these 5 protections in 3D Design. Once the
  3D Design is corrected, user can redo the Extract,
  or if he has already created the flattened layout, he
  can do Synchronize also to get these protections in
  3D Flatten view.
  .
  

Temporary fix

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APAR Information

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Fix information

• Fixed component name

  CATIA V5 HP-UX

• Fixed component ID

  569102000

Applicable component levels

• R518 PSN

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