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Catia V5 users with UG experience

Catia V5 users with UG experience

Catia V5 users with UG experience

(OP)
This question goes out to V5 users with UG experience,

 In UG if I wanted to create say, a datum plane, I could approach it in two ways. I could select the "Datum Plane" icon and create a datum or, if I didn't have an icon visible in a toolbar, I could select Insert/Datum/Datum Plane and create my datum plane this way.

 In V5 ( and I am a newbie) if I want to create a datum plane I would select the "Plane" icon. My question is, lets say I don't have the "Reference Elements" toolbar turned on (View/Toolbars/Reference Elements)is there any other way I could access the "plane" feature? As a newbie, I haven't quite set up all my toolbars properly and am curious if I can access features in more than one way. For example, with "Pad", I can access it by picking the pad icon but I can also access it Insert/Sketched Base Features/Pad. Why are some features accesible in more than one way and others not? Am I correct in what I say?

Thank You in advance.

p.s. I understand that Catia is not UG and vice versa.  

RE: Catia V5 users with UG experience

Thru the pull-down menu, you can use VIEW, ALL COMMANDS.  From there you can get to the Plane function (or any other function available in a CATPart).

RE: Catia V5 users with UG experience

(OP)
Catiajim,

 Wow... I guess I got what I asked for. That's a pretty long command list. I will definitely have to spend some time and set up some toolbars.Thanks for the timely response.

RE: Catia V5 users with UG experience

if you don't have the toolbar available, here are three other ways you can create a plane:

1. in the lower-right corner, in the white box, you can type "c:plane"

2. Insert + Wireframe + Plane (oops! that only works in the GSD workbench)

3. in the Pad panel, right-click in the plane field and choose CREATE PLANE

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