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    Productivity improvement

    I'm an engineer that has been developing productivity tools for engineering for quite a long time now. I've noticed that engineers tend to be dealing with more and more data. Whether it is surveying and performing analysis across an impossibly large number of load cases or tedious data entry...
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    Catia use in Australia

    ok... Well the suggestions from HaribabuAus and sjsp are pretty spot on. Boeing, Mitsubishi, Ford, Holden, GKN and RMIT are the main ones I can think of. Although all the CATIA work (V4 and V5) at GKN is done at the Melbourne office not Brisbane as sjsp suggested. Hope this helps
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    Catia use in Australia

    Are you interested in Design companies, manufacturing companies or both... or something else?
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    v4 export into v5?

    You can import V4 export files in V5 by using the "ExtractModelFromSequential" utility. Select "Utility..." from the "Tools" menu, then double-click on "ExtractModelFromSequential". Click "Browse File" to find the export file, and then set the...
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    Renaming of features in v5

    Hi amitkulk, Whilst I agree with jakey's response (renaming sketches to something meaningful), you could try a small VB macro to rename all sketches (or other entity types) to be numerically ordered. The V5 VBA language is quite powerful. Good luck
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    CATIA V5 CAA versus VBA

    Thanks morexyz, but am I correct in surmising that it is impossible to do event-driven code without the CAA product?
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    CATIA V5 CAA versus VBA

    I'm relatively new to CATIA V5 and I'm just starting to learn VBA programming in V5. However, it seems that it is not possible to write event-driven code in the VBA interface (i.e. code to execute with a user saves a file). All the reading I've done seems to indicate that CAA is required for...

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