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  • CATIA V5: Focusing on Design Intent

    CATIA V5: Focusing on Design Intent

    Maintaining design intent is crucial for efficient CAD design. By mastering these in CATIA V5, you pave the way for designs that are robust, flexible, and easy to manipulate.

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  • CATIA V5 Part Design: Boolean Add Tool

    CATIA V5 Part Design: Boolean Add Tool

    Delve into the effective usage of the Boolean Add tool in CATIA V5, equipping you with the knowledge to bring your designs to new heights of creativity and precision.

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  • CATIA V5 Part Design: Boolean Remove Tool

    CATIA V5 Part Design: Boolean Remove Tool

    Learn about the Boolean Remove tool: a game changer enabling you to subtract material from a solid body using another solid as the “tool.”

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  • CATIA V5 Part Design: Boolean Trim

    CATIA V5 Part Design: Boolean Trim

    Boolean Trim tool enables you to trim portions of a solid using another solid as a guide. It’s a combination of the Boolean Add and Remove tool.

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  • Using CATIA V5’s Remove Face Tool

    Using CATIA V5’s Remove Face Tool

    Streamline your design process, eliminate imperfections and craft exceptional 3D models with ease.

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  • CATIA V5 Part Design: Draft Tool

    CATIA V5 Part Design: Draft Tool

    Learn about the Draft Tool which lets you add draft angles to your designs, a critical component in parts intended for mold manufacturing.

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  • Strategies for a Successful Technology Implementation

    Strategies for a Successful Technology Implementation

    Learn how documentation and training both play a critical role in the successful implementation of new software.

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  • Using Teams to Manage Custom PLM Training Projects (Creating the Team)

    Using Teams to Manage Custom PLM Training Projects (Creating the Team)

    Learn how to use Teams to manage custom PLM Training Projects in this blog series.

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  • Using Teams to Manage Custom PLM Training Projects (Adding the Tasks app)

    Using Teams to Manage Custom PLM Training Projects (Adding the Tasks app)

    This blog is part of the “Using Teams to manage custom PLM Training Projects” blog series. It relates to adding the Tasks by Planner and To Do app to a Teams channel tab.

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  • Using Teams to Manage Custom PLM Training Projects (Adding Excel and Lists apps)

    Using Teams to Manage Custom PLM Training Projects (Adding Excel and Lists apps)

    This blog is part of the “Using Teams to manage custom PLM Training Projects” blog series. It relates to adding the Excel and the Lists apps to a Teams channel tab.

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  • Using Teams to Manage Custom PLM Training Projects (Adding the OneNote App)

    Using Teams to Manage Custom PLM Training Projects (Adding the OneNote App)

    Learn how to add the OneNote app to a Teams channel tab.

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  • Using Teams to Manage Custom PLM Training Projects (Adding the Website App)

    Using Teams to Manage Custom PLM Training Projects (Adding the Website App)

    In part 5 of this blog series, we discuss how to add the Website app to a Teams channel tab.

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  • Using Teams to Manage Custom PLM Training Projects (Adding the SharePoint App)

    Using Teams to Manage Custom PLM Training Projects (Adding the SharePoint App)

    In this last blog in the series, we discuss adding the SharePoint app to a Teams channel tab. The SharePoint app provides you with quick access to SharePoint pages such as News, Lists, or Libraries.

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  • PLM Quick Reference: Searching in 3DEXPERIENCE

    PLM Quick Reference: Searching in 3DEXPERIENCE

    If you want a refresher on the ways to search in 3DEXPERIENCE, here is an overview of the search tools and options to help you locate your PLM and CAD data objects in 3DEXPERIENCE.

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  • PLM Quick Reference: Searching in PTC Windchill

    PLM Quick Reference: Searching in PTC Windchill

    Locating your product data quickly and accurately for design work, viewing, or analysis purposes is most important in any PLM system. Here's a refresher on the ways to search in PTC Windchill.

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  • Solve Documentation Challenges with Professional Writing Services

    Solve Documentation Challenges with Professional Writing Services

    Don't let poorly written documentation- which can lead to wasted time and resources, misunderstandings among team members, and even costly mistakes- hold your company back! Work with an expert writer.

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  • Generative Shape Design: Using the Sphere Command

    Generative Shape Design: Using the Sphere Command

    In this short video we’re going to show off the sphere command in CATIA V5. This is a really easy command to use- the hardest part of the sphere command is finding it.

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  • Generative Shape Design: Using the Cylinder Command

    Generative Shape Design: Using the Cylinder Command

    This short video delves into the cylinder command using the Generative Shape Design workbench in CATIA V5.

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  • Generative Shape Design: Using the Circle Sweep

    Generative Shape Design: Using the Circle Sweep

    Learn how to use the circle sweep to make anything from hose routing to wire paths in a pretty easy fashion. Learn more in this short video.

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  • CATIA 3DEXPERIENCE: How to reset parts back to the origin of an assembly

    CATIA 3DEXPERIENCE: How to reset parts back to the origin of an assembly

    Learn how to move components back to the origin of an assembly within CATIA 3DEXPERIENCE R2022x.

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