CAD Interface (CA-CAD) (SAP Library - CAD Interface (CA-CAD))

CAD Interface (CA-CAD)

Purpose

CAD integration is connecting the SAP System to external applications such as CAD, PDM, and GIS.

This enables your designers to access data in the production system and use this information in their work - information on existing materials and assemblies, for example. Since data can be transferred between the CAD system and the SAP System in both directions, inconsistency of the data in the two systems is avoided.

Implementation considerations

These components are necessary when you want to couple or link the SAP System to an external application.

Integration

You can use the CAD interface for the following applications to transfer data online between an external system and your SAP System:

General Functions
Functions for Material Master Records
Functions for Document Management
Functions for BOMs
Functions for Plant Maintenance
Functions for Engineering Change Management
Mail and Workflow Functions

Features

Depending on the area of usage you can select between the CAD dialog interface and the dialog RFC interface. The following is an overview:

CAD dialog interface	Dialog RFC Interface
Overview of Functions in the CAD Dialog Interface	Overview of Functions in the Dialog RFC Interface
Technical Description of the CAD Dialog Interface	Technical Description of the Dialog RFC Interface