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CATIA Tip: File Naming in CATIA and Manual Input Option

For many new CATIA users, figuring out how to manage the filename versus the part name for part/product files, can be confusing. Here's a tip to help!

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5 Reasons to Make ProductivityNOW Your One-Stop-Shop for CATIA and Creo Online Training

ProductivityNOW is a one-stop-shop for eLearning used by high-performing organizations to maximize the proficiency, productivity, and potential of their people. Learn more.

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3 Ways to Stay Ahead of Your Competition

Learn how to be better, faster, and more cost effective than your competition by harnessing the power within the ProductivityNOW eLearning platform.

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5 Ways to Encourage Employees to Embrace Training

Software is ever-changing, and users must continue to learn new features and workflows to improve their proficiency. As a manager, how do you get employees to embrace training?

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CATIA Tip: Half Dimension in CATIA Drafting

Here's a quick tip to show you how to turn off the half-dimension option in CATIA.

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CATIA Tip: Drawing Items Snapping to Grid

Here's a quick CATIA fix to help with the automatic snapping function in the drafting workbench of any text item or chart.

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CATIA Tip: How to Lock in a Horizontal or Vertical Dimension in a CATIA Drawing

See how to lock in a horizontal or vertical dimension in a CATIA drawing in one of 2 ways.

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CATIA Tip: Hatching Lines that do not Display

Here's another tip when using the CATIA Drafting Workbench. This tip will apply to cross section views when you are sectioning through smaller parts.

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CATIA Tip: Cross Sections in Drawings

This CATIA tip takes us to the drafting workbench to look at the offset cross section view command. The location of the cross section cutting line can be created with 3 different methods.

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CATIA Tip: Up to Plane VS. Up to Surface

Many first-time software users get confused on the difference between the depth options of 'up to plane' versus 'up to surface' because sometimes, they can be used interchangeably. Let's take a look.

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Scanned Data in CATIA V5: An Intro to Digitized Shape Editor and Quick Surface Reconstruction

For many reasons, it may be useful to scan an existing object to use in CATIA. For this post, we’ll take a high-level look at the general procedure.

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CATIA V5 Admin Mode, Part 3: Customizing Generative View Styles

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CATIA V5 Admin Mode, Part 2: Customizing Drafting Standards

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CATIA V5 Admin Mode, Part 1: Setting Up

In this post, we will explain how to set up and run CATIA in admin mode in general, as well as how to lock options and settings for the end-users.

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Rand 3D Launches New Creo 7.0 Training Courses and Creates Customizable Learning Paths

As remote teams become more prominent in the workforce, Rand 3D continues to bolster its asynchronous learning content with its popular online platform, ProductivityNOW.

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Fixing CATIA Data Errors with CATDUA

CATDUA is a part of CATIA V5 and a tool for repairing errors in CATIA files. CATDUA has many helpful uses and we strongly recommend using CATDUA before exporting a CATIA model to an external format.

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