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    CATIA viewer solution v4 & v5

    I work at an R&D facility to a larger company and we are looking for a cheaper solution than buying a few seats of CATIA at the headquarters. The people at headquarters do not need to modify the documents, so more copies of CATIA are not needed. I was wondering if anyone here is currently...
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    Drawing view surrounds

    These blue frames will help you to see which view is active. Such as in v4, you will need to be in the correct view in order to edit some things inside the view (such as creating lines, or trimming lines.) Instead of having a VU button to change the views, you can either double click on the...
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    Airless Tires

    Did anyone see the new airless tires in the lastest Popular Science magazine? I read that they are not going to be available for automotive applications until ten years from now because they are so noisy. They are supposedly made from a composite of sorts. I do not have the article with me...
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    Title Block?

    Paul, This is just a work-around, but it seems to work for me just fine. What you can do, if you have a title block already, is create a new view inside the drawing you want the title block in and then copy it from where it is saved into this new view. I know there is a way to actually put...
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    BUYING NEW WORKSTATIONS.. 64BIT??

    Just in case you were wondering, the baseline specs for CATIA v5 are located in this link on IBM's software webpage. http://www-306.ibm.com/software/applications/plm/catiav5/sysreq/sysreq.html
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    Dimension Problems when Drafting in V5

    Actually, I have since fixed the problem by doing just that. The automotive supplier that I work for has their own CATIA v5 standard which I was trying to emulate and I was finally able to access this standard at their office. Thanks for the help, BT
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    What do you use CATIA for?

    You probably should have started a new thread about this topic, because not a lot of people are going to see this post way down here at the bottom if the topic is different then the title of the thread. Just for future reference. In my opinion, the best way to compare two drawings to each...
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    My Co-op Job with CATIA v5 (Trial By Fire)

    Just a little update, I called our CATIA provider and he informed me that we have v4 and v5 running simultaneously on the same computer in order to help ease the transistion process. He also said that it was installed over the internet and I did not have any cds of v5 documentation. He then...
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    What do you use CATIA for?

    I work for a tier 1 automotive supplier and I use CATIA to design plastic components. As of late, most of the design work has been finished in 3d by my boss and I am working on 2d drawings. I have had tastes of both CATIA v4 and v5 as my company is in transition and have used 3d and 2d on...
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    My Co-op Job with CATIA v5 (Trial By Fire)

    I guess you first need to understand the depth of my problem. This is not the first time that I have posted on this forum with slightly basic problems in using CATIA v5. I have recently obtained a co-op position at an automotive supplier and I would really like to get better with the software...
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    Dimension Problems when Drafting in V5

    I am having a lot of problems when making cumulative dimensions in V5. The supplier that I am working with will not accept the circle x default for the cumulative dimensions. They want to use regular dots with the zero appearing next to the dot. I have tried many things in order to make...
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    long saving times while using v5 drafting

    I wasn't able to locate a command that was called explode or expose in order to break the links of the title block. If you could specify more about what kind of command expose is or what I need to do in order to break these links, I will give it a go. Thanks,
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    long saving times while using v5 drafting

    I am saving locally to one of the two computers in the network. I was also thinking that one of the problems could be that I am using a title block that I have copied and pasted from another drawing. Is there a way that I can take a specific title block into the drawing while not using the...
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    long saving times while using v5 drafting

    I have run into some problems when trying to save my drawing on CATIA v5. The drawings always save but it will take me about 4 to 5 minutes to finish the save process. I looked up the sizes of the .catpart and the .catdrawing files and the drawing is twice the size of the part. Is this normal...
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    catia v4 & v5

    It is entirely possible to install v5 CATIA on a UNIX machine that is currently running v4. You can actually run the programs at the same time and minimize each program as needed. It is definitely worth it if you need or wish to be working with CATIA v5 in the future. If your machine is...
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