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Local zone in CATIA

Local zone in CATIA

Local zone in CATIA

(OP)
Hi
I'm designing a building, with several floors, and a lot of pipes, and electrical stuff. I design my building floor by floor and I need to isolate a local zone of my building to extract a nomenclature or to modify a detail, or to put in a drawing. This local zone may be a room for example, but it could be also a zone which have no physical limits. My problem is with the piping part.
If somebody has any idea to cut a huge building?
Thanks for all answers!

regards
Pechkit

RE: Local zone in CATIA

Hi Pechkit,

I've done more or less the same with a building. First of all, I've modelled each floor in a separate body in one part. I created two planes in each direction and use parameters to constrol them. Then I've created splits at each plane in each body using parameters to control their activity. Now I can control where the 3D zone is and in what direction I want to cut the part. I guess you can do the same using a skeleton part for the planes and assembly split for splitting parts in an assembly.

Good luck
OGabriel

RE: Local zone in CATIA

(OP)
Hi Ogabriel,

Thanks for your solution, it's a good solution for a room which have a square shape, but if you have a circular wall, it's over! I have different rooms with complex shapes.
I don't know if it's possible to select several surfaces and delete all which are out of this volume?
Is it complicated to do a macro to do that?
Thanks
Regards
Pechkit

  

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