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Offering Tips & Tricks for CATIA and Creo users
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Read ArticleCATIA 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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Read ArticleCATIA 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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Read ArticleCATIA 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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Read ArticleCATIA 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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Read ArticleCATIA 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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Read ArticleScanned 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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Read ArticleCATIA 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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Read ArticleCATIA V5 Admin Mode, Part 2: Customizing Drafting Standards
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Read ArticleCATIA V5 Admin Mode, Part 3: Customizing Generative View Styles
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Read ArticleCATIA Assembly Design: Flexible vs. Rigid Sub-Assembly
Learn about Flexible vs. Rigid Sub-Assembly in this CATIA Assembly Design software tip.
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Read ArticleFixing 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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Read ArticleCATIA Tip: Typing Commands
What can we do when we know there’s a command we want in CATIA, we know the name of it, but we just can’t find it anywhere? Find out how to solve this problem in our blog post.
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Read ArticleUsing Multiple Bodies in Creo Parametric 7.0
Starting with Creo 7. multiple body modeling has come to Creo. My webcast will step you though the basics of how multiple bodies work in Creo Parametric.
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Read ArticleCATIA V5: Surface Continuity Explained
While point or tangency continuity is sufficient for most mechanical designs, curvature continuity is usually required for visually pleasing industrial designs that involve using polished surfaces.
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Read ArticleCATIA Tip: Converting a Line to an Axis
Today we’re back in the Sketcher workbench. The plan is to create a Shaft so I’ve started drawing the sketch but the the line I’ve drawn needs to be an Axis instead of a standard line.
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Read ArticleCATIA Tip: Sketcher Booleans
Here's another another way to save some mouse clicks and some time in CATIA.
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Read ArticleCATIA Tip: Center Rotation
Learn how to rotate a model in CATIA while keeping it centered on the screen.
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Read ArticleCATIA V5: How to Create Attribute Links with a Specific Number of Decimal Places
Learn to link a text in the drawing to a measurement in the 3D model with values that show a very specific number of decimal places.
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Read ArticleExtracting Geometry from CGR files
Learn some tricks to extract geometry from CGR (Catia Graphics Representation) files.
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Read ArticleCATIA V5: How to Control Video File Size
Learn how to control the video file size in CATIA V5.
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