CATIA V5 Tutorial – How to Migrate CATIA V4 Data to CATIA V5 Format?
You can’t edit CATIA V4 model files in CATIA V5. You can only open them without access to V5 functionalities. Hence you need to migrate it to V5 for using the CATIA V5 functionality. There are many ways to migrate or convert CATIA V4 parts to CATIA V5 format. CATIA V4 parts have .model file extension. We shall show you the different ways of migrating CATIA V4 data to CATIA V5 format. (more…)
CATIA V5 Tutorial: What is Difference Between Geometrical Set and Ordered Geometrical Set?
In Generative Shape Design (GSD) Workbench of CATIA V5, you can find two methods of modeling. These are modeling using ‘Geometrical Sets’ and modeling using ‘Ordered Geometrical Sets’. Both are quite different in approach. In this article we will show you the difference between them.
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CATIA V5 Tutorial: How to Export CATDrawing to DXF with Layers Intact?
By default, when you save a CATDrawing containing Layers as DXF (Drawing Interchange Format), CATIA puts all the layer items in a single layer. It does not import names of Layers too. In this article, we will show you how to change the settings to make CATIA export Drawing details keeping the Layers intact.
CATIA V5 Tutorial: How to Create 3D Text and Logos in a Part?
Module: Part Design
At times you need to create text like Manufacturer logo, description text, etc in a Part. It’s a painful task to create sketch based of letters and then pad them to get the 3D text. In this article we will show you quick and easy way of creating text in Part Design without using any macros.
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CATIA V5 Tutorial: How to Generate 2D Views of 3D Wireframe Data?
Module: Generative Drafting
By default in a CATDrawing, CATIA will not allow you to generate a 2D view from CATPart consisting of 3D Wireframe data like lines, curves, circles etc. While dealing with generating a drawing of 3D curve data in a Part, it’s better to enable Projection of 3D wireframe data. To enable it follow these steps.
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CATIA V5 Tutorial: How to Create and Insert a Ditto in a Drawing?
While creating a Drawing, you will come across instances in which you need to add repetitive details like Datum Symbols, Machining Symbols, etc. In such cases it’s better to create one symbol in a detail sheet and call the symbol instance in the drawing so that you can replicate it as many times as you wish. In this article we will show you how to create a ditto and replicate it within a Drawing. Ditto is a general term given for a Symbol.
CATIA V5 Tutorial: How to Export Section Curve Data from Assembly Design Section Cut?
We often analyze a part and it’s joining conditions in a Product by taking sections in Assembly Design workbench of CATIA V5. You might often have felt the need of saving the section curve from Assembly section cut for later use in part design.
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CATIA V5 Tutorial: How to Enable Light Mode in CATIA V5?
Light mode is the term given to load just the 3D data and not the V4 Drawing data. By default when you import CATIA V4 model into CATIA V5, V4 drawing file is also opened along with 3D model file. This can be disabled so that only 3D model file will open to reduce the loading time. This is useful especially when you just want 3D data for reference and not the V4 Drawing Data while designing surrounding parts.
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CATIA V5 Tutorial: How to Customize Product Structure Nodes?
By default in a Product structure, CATIA displays Product Number for the Top level Product and for sub products, Product Number and instance Name are displayed. CATIA gives a wide variety of options to customize this Product Structure Node. You can specify Description, Definition, Instance name, etc to be displayed in the Specification tree.
CATIA V5 Tutorial: How to Convert CATProduct to CATPart?
Sometimes we come across scenario in which we want to save a large assembly (CATProduct) consisting of many parts into one single part (CATPart). A typical example would be development of Body Side of Car parts keeping all the Packaging Data like Engine, Radiator, battery etc in a single CATPart for reference. Every time it is pain to open complete Product especially when it is frozen and is needed only for reference while designing surrounding parts. In this tutorial we will show you how you can convert CATProduct into CATPart.
