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2:10WatchYour Destination for Complete Design Engineering Solutions
CAD design and manufacturing can be complicated, especially in industries like aerospace, defense, and automotive. Technologies such as computer aided design, product lifecycle management, and 3D simu
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CATIA and Creo Parametric Online Training Classes: By the Numbers
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Read ArticleCreo 5.0 Tip: Rule Based Chain Selection
By Natasha Reaves When creating or editing features using Creo Parametric, you may need to select a chain of edges or curves that are related either by tangency or a common vertex. Watch as Rand...
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Read ArticleCreo Parametric Tip: 2D Box Selection
By Natasha Reaves Starting in Creo Parametric 4.0, when using an object/action workflow, you can use 2D box selection in combination with the selection filter settings to select only items of the...
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CATIA Mechanical Design Fundamentals
This course will teach you how to create simple parts, assemblies and drawings with CATIA. Learn how to use different feature-based tools to build, review and modify a model using 3DEXPERIENCE CATIA.
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3DEXPERIENCE Generative Shape Design Essentials
This course will teach you how to use the 3DEXPERIENCE Generative Shape Design app to create curves and surfaces. Learn how to assemble, re-limit and connect the geometries smoothly.
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CATIA Drafting Expert
This course will teach you how to manage drawing sheets and views in the Drafting app. You will also learn how to use advanced tools to dress-up, annotate views.
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Transition to 3DEXPERIENCE for Mechanical Designers
In this course, Mechanical Designers working in the cloud with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform will learn how to design a new part, insert the part in a product, then position and constrain it.
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Read ArticlePutting Functional Tolerancing and Annotation on a 2D Drawing
By Amy Rath The Functional Tolerancing and Annotation (FT&A) workbench is a great way to add 2D drawing information right into the 3D model. Annotation can be added to parts, products, and...
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Read ArticleCreo Parametric Tip: Selection Using <Ctrl> and <Shift>
By Natasha Reaves In Creo Parametric, you can use the and keys in the same way you would with a Microsoft Office application, such as Word. In the main graphics window or the model tree, you can...
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Read ArticleCATIA V5: Sketcher Boolean Operations
By Amy Rath Boolean Operations are now available in the sketcher workbench starting with release CATIA V5-V6 2018. These Boolean operations work very similar to the ones used in the Part Design...
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Read ArticleFeature Recognition in CATIA
By Amy Rath Have you ever had a model that was imported in as an isolated model? Meaning it didn’t have history to it or any features listed in the specification tree except a solid branch. Here...
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Read ArticleCATIA V5 Visual Tip: Z-buffer Depth Display
By Trisha West Here is another CATIA V5 visual option that some people find useful. By default, all reference features you create in CATIA will automatically “shine” through any other...
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Read ArticleCATIA V5 Tip: Low Light Mode in CATIA Assemblies
By Trisha West In some CAD modeling packages, there is an automatic “tunnel vision” that occurs when you are active on a child component within a higher-level assembly. Below is an example of a...
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Read ArticleCATIA V5 Drafting Tip: Creating Detailed Views and Redefining Detail View Locations
By Trisha West Creating a detail drawing view allows a user to enlarge areas within a drawing view to a different scale. In CATIA V5, you can select to make a detail view area in a circular shape,...
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Read ArticleUpdating Legacy Datums to Datum Feature Symbols in Creo Parametric 4.0+
By Scott Hendren If you are new to Creo Parametric 4.0, and have started working with drawings or the Model Based Definition (MBD) annotation tools, you may be asking, “What is going on with Set...
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Read ArticleCreo Parametric Tip: How to use Pick From List to Select Entities
By Natasha Reaves When using Creo Parametric, it is recommended that you review a list of all of the entities that can be queried based on where the cursor is located. One way to query items is to...
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CATIA V5: Clash Analysis breakdown
By Trisha West Performing a static clash in CATIA is a powerful tool that can detect areas of interference, contact and minimum clearance violations. In this video, we break down how to set up,...
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Read ArticleCATIA Drafting Tip: Displaying View Axis in Drawing Views
By Trisha West The default installation of CATIA V5 has the view axis displayed turned on in drawing views. This means that in the active view, there is a blue horizontal and vertical axis that is...
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Read ArticleCATIA V5 Tip: Drafting Display View Frame
By Trisha West The view frame is the dashed box that appears around a drawing view. This frame allows the user to quickly pick a view to drag it to another location on the drawing sheet. However,...
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Read ArticleCreo Parametric Tip: How to Convert a Diameter Dimension to a Linear Dimension in a Drawing
By Natasha Reaves When detailing a Creo drawing, you can convert a diameter dimension to a linear dimension or convert a linear dimension that denotes diameter of geometry to a diameter dimension....
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