There are two types of Standards available with CATIA V5. The first type is the Default Standards, which are provided by Dassault Systèmes. These files are stored in the location defined by the environment variable CATDefaultCollectionStandard. The default location of the default Standards is set by Dassault Systèmes to be the
“install folder”
esourcesstandard. Figure 1 shows an example for the default Windows
folder for a Windows 64-bit installation:
There are four different categories of Standards. Each of the Standards affects different CATIA documents and workbenches. All of the CATIA V5 Standards are defined in XML (Extensible Markup Language) files, with specific names, and are stored in specific locations in the Standards directory structure.
The XML file names of the Standards cannot be modified or customized with the exception of the Drafting Standards. Only Drafting Standards can have customized XML file names. All of the other Standards must keep use the names as defined by Dassault Systèmes.
The following sections describe the four Standards categories that are used to define CATIA’s attributes.