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How to access to CATIA V5 R18 as administrator?

OK, normally you will need to access CATIA as admin if you need to make some changes in your settings such
as your default standards.

this will be our first CATIA tutorials on this page responding to Mr. John Zaino,

CATIA V5 R18 administrator mode

First step,

Create two short cuts for your CATIA because one of them it will be CATIA admin, and the other will be your
regular environment.

In your CATIA short cut do RMB on it and select properties, then copy what is in the Target field and paste it
on wordpad or text editor, so you can see better and make the changes.

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Here an example how it will look like when you copy/paste in wordpad:

“C:\Program Files\Dassault Systemes\B17\intel_a\code\bin\CATSTART.exe” -run “CNEXT.EXE” -env

CATIA_P3.V5R17.B17 -direnv “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\DassaultSystemes\CATEnv” -nowindow

Now, you will need to make another short cut for your CATIA Admin because you will make some changes for
the CATIA Admin (Name the short cut as CATIA Admin). Once you do the short cut, do like the previous step
and add “-admin” after CNEXT.EXE

Here is how it looks like when you made the change:

“C:\Program Files\Dassault Systemes\B17\intel_a\code\bin\CATSTART.exe” -run “CNEXT.EXE -admin” -

env CATIA_P3.V5R17.B17 -direnv “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\DassaultSystemes\CATEnv” –nowindow

Now, you can copy the one you changed and paste on your Target field. So, when ever you want to access
CATIA as Admin you just double click on your new short cut (CATIA Admin) but before you do that you
have to do another change on CAT Environnent.

Second step,
you will make changes in CAT Environment

You can find you CAT environment from above information. Based on above example the CAT env location
is:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\DassaultSystemes\CATEnv

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And your file name will be:
CATIA_P3.V5R17.B17 (this file will be with “.txt” extension)

Now, on this file you can add all your CATIA variables you need. In our example here we will add two paths
pointing to two new folders that we will create it now for our CATIA admin. Create the following two folders in
same directory that your CAT Env “txt” located.

1-first folder: I will name this folder as “AdminCATSettings” because this will be the CATsetting location for our
CATIA Admin.

2-second folder: I will name this folder as “AdminStandards” because this is where it will go the xml file when I
make some changes on the standards for the drafting work bench. For instance I will be able to change the
default size text and fonts for my drawing, these changes will go to the xml file and saved.

Now, open your CAT Environment “txt” and find where is says

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CATReferenceSettingPath= (in here you will need to put your CATsetting path folder that we created before)

The second file (AdminStandards) should be pointed through the following variable
CATCollectionStandard= (put the path for your folder here)

This is how it will look like you add the two paths:

CATReferenceSettingPath=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application

Data\DassaultSystemes\CATEnv\AdminCATSettings

CATCollectionStandard=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application

Data\DassaultSystemes\CATEnv\AdminStandards

Once you made the changes save it, now you can access your CATIA admin and you make some changes on
the default standards.

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