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    Radius Portion of Polyline

    Hello, it's a bug, bypass is to use corner tool. Regards TPale
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    Closing volume as per V4

    Hello, I think that it's never ending story how to close surfaces to solid. But here is couple tips, see the CATIA Data Exchange Interfaces Manual in Infrastructure section. There is IGES Trouble Shooting and Best Practices chapters. They have very good procedures to fix models. Then in Join...
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    Problems with Offline Concurrent Licensing

    Hello Yngve, there are some possible sources of error, but start from updating to LUM 4.6.8.3 form http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/lum/support.html -Check also that You have the same data and time in laptop and in server. -You should also have rw rights to C:\Documents and...
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    How do you show body line grid in V5 drafting???

    Hello, grid can be done with VB macro. I do have a sample macro that has the basic functionality, drop me a note if you want to test it BR. Timo timo.palenius(at)rand.fi
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    Geometrical Constraints

    Hello, double click the value and type to dimension field = and select the dimension You want. That should do the job. Regards TPale
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    Analyse - BILL OF MATERIAL

    Hello, there are two possibilities, 1) modify configuration files: You can modify the structure of the bill of material window in the CATAsmBom.CATNls file and the size of the columns in the CATAsmBom.CATRsc file. On NT, both files are under your CATIA installation directory ...
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    Circle2D SetData

    Hello Rob have You created the circle already? then You have to identify what circle is to be modified, in VBA You have nice Insert/Object resolution tool to get definition of the object, it uses the name of object to identify the modified element here is sample: Sub catmain() '---- Begin...
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    special drawing view

    Yes, select view type, select scene either from icon or from the tree, select 3D the plane indicate the position regards TPale
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    Spline by pole?

    Hello Gunman, if You double click the spline in sketcher the spline edit window opens and You are able to set both curvature and tangency. Regards TPale
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    Packaging Drawings ( Automotive )

    Hello, have You tried Offset Section Cut and View Positioning with Superpose ? Result is pretty much the same as in V4. Regards TPale
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    Editing wireframe

    Hello, use extrapol it works both surface and curves Regards TPale
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    Can't Find File or Object Library

    Hello, check that You have installed VBA to Your PCs. If You have not installed CATIA directcly from CD you should install VBA as separate step, See the manual for details. Regards TPale
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    V5 Drawing custom sheet size

    Hello, easy way to create user specific size for drawing is: File/Page Setup In Format field type User36x100 and press TAB-key then Width and Height fields will activate. Regards TPale
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    Dimensioning tolerances ?

    Hello, You can get trailing zeros with using ANS.DIMM BR TPale
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    service pack for catia

    Hello, try official IBM page, SP's are free for CATIA customers. You need Your IBM customer number when getting user Id. (Customer number is in the mailing label of CATIA box ) https://techsupport.services.ibm.com/engineering/login Regards TPale

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