HD93674: THE CGR FILE IS NOT UPDATED WHEN "ACTIVATE NODE" WAS PERFORMED...

APAR status

• Closed as Permanent restriction.

Error description

• Short Scenario:
  1. Product contains a Part.
  2. Part is having two bodies
  3. One of the body is in hidden status.
  .
  4.Start CATIA in Visualization mode and open the Product.
  New cgr is created for the Part in the Product
  5. Switch the Product to design mode
  Activate the Part and unhide the body
  Save the Part
  6. Check the cgr time stamp (it is the same as the one when
  cgr was created)
  7. Activate Product
  8. Use Representation>Deactivate Terminal Node on the Part
  Again Activate Terminal Node on the same Part.
  9. Again check the time stamp for the cgr (it is changed to
  the  time when the Terminal node is activated)
  Also check the cgr by inserting it in a new Product with the
  Existing Component option
  OBSERVATION:
  The cgr is updated when the activate/deactivate terminal node
  is used.
  Tile Windows Vertically for the Product and the CGR, both
  have same representation.
  .
  Repeat the same scenario but instead of activate/deactivate
  terminal node use activate/deactivate node.
  OBSERVATION:
  The cgr is not updated in this case.
  Tile Windows Vertically for the Product and the CGR, both do
  not have same representation.
  .
  EXPECTED RESULT:
  cgr should be updated in case of Activate/Deactivate Node
  also.
  

Local fix

• empty
  

Problem summary

• Short Scenario:
  1. Product contains a Part.
  2. Part is having two bodies
  3. One of the body is in hidden status.
  .
  4.Start CATIA in Visualization mode and open the Product.
  New cgr is created for the Part in the Product
  5. Switch the Product to design mode
  Activate the Part and unhide the body
  Save the Part
  6. Check the cgr time stamp (it is the same as the one when
  cgr was created)
  7. Activate Product
  8. Use Representation>Deactivate Terminal Node on the Part
  Again Activate Terminal Node on the same Part.
  9. Again check the time stamp for the cgr (it is changed to
  the  time when the Terminal node is activated)
  Also check the cgr by inserting it in a new Product with the
  Existing Component option
  OBSERVATION:
  The cgr is updated when the activate/deactivate terminal node
  is used.
  Tile Windows Vertically for the Product and the CGR, both
  have same representation.
  .
  Repeat the same scenario but instead of activate/deactivate
  terminal node use activate/deactivate node.
  OBSERVATION:
  The cgr is not updated in this case.
  Tile Windows Vertically for the Product and the CGR, both do
  not have same representation.
  .
  EXPECTED RESULT:
  cgr should be updated in case of Activate/Deactivate Node
  also.
  

Problem conclusion

• THIS PROBLEM IS PERMANENT RESTRICTION IN CATIA.
  Additional Closure Information:
  Incident Diagnosis:
  The cgr file is not updated when "Activate Node"was performed
  .
  Restriction Explanation:
  Activate Node command is used to activate intermediate node
  as well as Terminal node
  Activate Terminal node command activates the terminating
  nodes (common occurrences- CATPart).
  CATPart(Terminal Nodes) contains geometry and on geometry
  change CGR should be recalculated to update the
  representation.
  For the intermediate nodes (namely Sub Products), the
  representation associated is a static one i.e. there cannot
  be any change in the representation, the cgr updation is
  therefore not provided for this functionality.
  .
  Activate Node and Activate Terminal Node are two different
  commands and therefore the behavior associated is also
  different.
  Also if the cgr updation is provided for Activate Node, on
  large Assemblies CATIA will have to check for geometry on
  each node which causes performance issues.
  In the BR scenario the Terminal Node is only one and there is
  no intermediate node.
  However in case of large assemblies, the number of
  intermediate nodes can be large which will cause a
  performance problem in CATIA.
  So this behavior is only provided with Activate Terminal Node
  and user should use Activate Terminal node to refresh the
  cgrs.
  .
  By-Pass:
  Use of Activate Terminal Node
  

Temporary fix

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