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Framework Catalogs

View and edit organization Framework catalogs in the CadActive web app.

A Framework catalog is the named AFX catalog record for your organization. It stores the catalog name, description, unit system, and which catalog is the default. The structural profiles themselves live in Profile Libraries — this page is the catalog list, not the profile geometry.

You need a Framework module license. Collaborators and admins can edit catalogs. Engineers apply the catalog in Creo with Sync Framework Data.

Catalogs vs profile libraries

Record

Where

What it stores

Catalog

Framework → Catalogs

The organization catalog: name, description, unit system, default flag.

Profile library

Framework → Profile Libraries

Folders of AFX profiles (name, folder, sizes, parameters, tables) that Sync writes as sel_list.txt and .tab files.

CadActive does not replace Creo Advanced Framework Extension (AFX). After you sync, Creo AFX consumes the downloaded files.

Open Catalogs

  1. Sign in to the CadActive web app.

  2. In the left navigation, open Framework.

  3. Under Catalogs, select Catalogs.

The header shows how many catalogs you have, for example: Showing 1 Catalog Total. If none exist, the table shows: No catalogs found.

Columns:

  • Default — a star marks the default catalog for the organization.

  • Name — unnamed rows show (Unnamed Catalog).

  • Description

  • Unit System — the assigned unit system, or -- if none is set.

You can filter Name and Description from the column menus.

Edit a catalog

Collaborators with Framework can edit. Other roles see View Only on the row.

  1. Select the edit control on a row. The dialog title is Edit 'name'.

  2. Change Name (required), optional Description, and optional Unit System.

  3. Select Save, or Cancel.

Names may use letters, numbers, spaces, periods, underscores, and hyphens, up to 31 characters.

note

The Catalogs list does not include a create control. If your organization has no catalog yet, contact CadActive or your implementation team — do not expect an Add New button on this page.

The Catalogs list does not include a create control. If your organization has no catalog yet, contact CadActive or your implementation team — do not expect an Add New button on this page.

After you edit

Changing a catalog in the web app does not push files into Creo by itself. Someone with access must run Sync Framework Data in Creo (or the Framework command line) so seats pick up sel_list.txt and profile .tab files from the libraries.