Catia

What works

everything I've tested (most part of the program except the enovia client and other workgroup utilities)

What does not

nothing I've tested

Workarounds

What was not tested

the program is huge so I've tested only parts where I've the skills to use

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

I've indicated that the wine version is 1.1.35 but in order to get catia to work in linux envirnoment you need wine version up to 1.1.33, and any version past 1.1.33 will not let you start the program (it hangs in the OpenGL alert screen). I've tested every other version of wine past 1.1.33 with no luck: 1.1.32 - Working! 1.1.33 - Working! 1.1.34 - not working 1.1.35 - not working 1.1.36 - not working 1.1.37 - not working 1.1.38 - not working 1.1.39 - not working 1.1.40 - not working

by ­NSLW on (April 5th 2010)

If application hags up for you on its start-up on Wine 1.1.34 or higher then you can fix it in two different ways:

Method #1

Please fire up terminal and do following:

su - root
ulimit -n 16384
su - your_user_name
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Dassault Systemes/B19/intel_a/code/bin
wine "catstart.exe" -run "CNEXT.exe" -env CATIA.V5R19.B19 -direnv "C:\users\Public\Application Data\DassaultSystemes\CATEnv" -nowindow 

You will have to do it always to run CATIA V5 without hang up.

Method #2

If you don't want to do it every time then do following:

1) open /etc/security/limits.conf with root permissions
2) add following line to that file
*                -    nofile             3000
3) save the file, log out then log in to apply the change

Now you can start CATIA V5 just as you would do normally.­

Above informations were given by Dan Kegel.To know more, why you have to do this, look at bug #22230

Please do not use Wine version from 1.1.19 till 1.1.23 because there is an regression which prevents successful installation of CATIA V5