CATIA V5 Tutorial: How To Get GSD Toolbar In Part Design Workbench

This CATIA V5 tutorial is especially useful for solid modeling projects which needs some sort of work in GSD (Generative Shape Design). In such cases swapping between Part Design and GSD workbench may be irritating.

So it’s better to have a Toolbar with commands which I use many times in GSD and bring it to Part Design workbench. This increases productivity and also reduces hassles of swapping workbenches.

Step1: From Part Design workbench, Go to Tools–> Customize

Step2: Click on “Toolbars” tab

Step3: Now Click “New” Button.

Step4: A “New Toolbar” window pops up. In the workbenches section, scroll down to “Shape Design Workbench” and select “Surfaces” from the “Toolbars” list. Give a name to the toolbar. e.g. “My GSD” and click “OK”.

Step5: “My GSD” toolbar will appear in the “Toolbars” list. Now you need to add/remove desired surface based commands in it. Note that Adding/removing any commands to this toolbar will not affect any standard toolbars in CATIA. To add commands “Click Add commands” button as shown in image above. You can then see list of all surface based features. You can add as many as you like. In my example, I have added Positioned Sketch, Join, Split, etc.

Step6: Similarly you can remove any commands which you find not useful.

Step7: When you are done your new toolbar “My GSD” will appear in the right-click context menu list of toolbars, which you can access in Part-Design itself! Enjoy!