CATIA V5 Tutorial: How to Create and Insert a Ditto in a Drawing

Posted by dkszone on September 16, 2009

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.

How to Create a Ditto (2D Component) or Symbol and instantiate it in CATDrawing?

1. Open a CATDrawing.
2. Go to Insert—> Drawing—> Sheets—> New Detail Sheet

New Detail Sheet

3. You will now see a New Detail Sheet in the Specification Tree.

2D Component
4. Activate the Detail Sheet.
5. Create a Ditto that you want to instantiate in the Drawing. For example we have created a standard Dowel Hole Symbol using a Circle and then hatching it with Black Color.

Ditto
6. Right-click—> Properties—> and rename the 2D Component. In our example we renamed it as “Dowel Symbol”.

Now Ditto is ready. It can be called in any drawing sheet of the CATDrawing. In our example, we have two views in which we will place the Dowel Hole created in the Detail Sheet.

Sample Views
7. Activate the View in which you want to place the Ditto.
8. Click on “Instantiate 2D Component” and then click on the ditto in the specification tree.