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We have just installed a seat of wildfire 3 at work. No one here has any experience in this software, as we currently use Catia V5.
Anyway, I have started working through the online tutorials and have progressed to assemblies. I have noticed that I am being instructed to use the...
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We draw our components using Catia V5, then export the data to toolmakers for manufacture, usually using a neutral format sucha s STEP or IGES.
Recently we have begun dealing with a new toolmaker who is requesting the data as catia export files. Therefore a couple of questions:
1) Does...
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I am attempting to send a step file of a small assembly to a supplier who is using PRO-E. Is there a recommended procedure for this, so that all the parts translate and all positional information is retained
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We have just switched to R14 from R12, and have been looking at the various new commands and functionality.
I have noticed that by enabling hybrid modelling when creating a new part that elements such as surfaces etc are included within the part body tree.
Has anyone found any use for...
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The models we are working on need to be transferred via IGS to our toolmaker. In the catia model i have coloured faces diferently to other face in order to highlight the areas to the toolmaker. I would like this colour differentiation replicating in the IGS file that the toolmaker...
We are involved in the design of injection moulded housings which in general are created from a free-form shape 'a' surface, then taken into part design and the detail built into these parts as a solid model.
Many of these parts are symmetrical across one axis. If we create a drawing of these...
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I am having to create some renderings using the photo studio workbench within V5. I am attempting to add a logo to a surface using the 'sticker' function. I can add it as a bitmap and render the result no problem. The problem is I would prefer to use a .tif file as is appears to be a higher...
Correct me if i'm wrong, but didn't there used to be a function within the Assembly design sectioning tool, that allowed you to save the resulting 2D cut. I think it was there around R10, we are now using R12 sp6, and I can't find it anywhere.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I have been designing in a fresh CATPart, nipping backwards and forwrads into other "reference" CATParts, for measurements, taking dump sections etc.
If I close these "reference" CATParts without saving the changes, and try to re-open (to give me a fresh model), catia gives me an warning to...
Often when we open a product or a part, the specification tree appears with most of the text labels missing. The symbols always appear ok, but the descriptions are either incomplete or missing altogether. This does not just happen at the start of a session, it can happen anytime.
The only way I...
I have read with interest some of the threads regarding 'hidden' functions within V5 and how to access them using enviroment variables.
Some of these are very useful (Product to CatPart for example) though I don't fully understand some of the others, the Wilson Spline Functionality and Rolling...
I have an assembly (approx 15 parts) of which i need to generate various views. I have generated front and top views and from the top view I have generated an 'OFFSET SECTION VIEW' along the centre of the assembly.
This works fine, gives me the centre profile and all of the geometry behind the...
Our site has been using V5 around 8mnths. The users have all come from V4 with experience ranging between 5 - 10 yrs. We are starting to create more complex parts (plastic injection mouldings, consumer domestic products) and we are wondering whether the software level we have (we have licences...
I'm sure there must be a simple answer to this one.....
When I go into a sketh is it possible to rotate the screen 90 degrees? I know you can flip the sketch so you are viewing from the rear side, but can't seem to rotate.
Hi, don't know if there is an easy answer to this but:
I'm working on some files in V5, that were originally drawn in pro-e. We received these files as STEP and converted the files into catparts as we have the 'ST1 Step core interface' product.
This produced unintelligent catparts, a solid...
I am using Catia v5r11 on an IBM RS6000 workstation, OS AIX. Recently I have encountered a situation where toolbars are disappearing when I attempt to click an icon. This has happened in GSD, sketcher and part design.
When I go into VIEW > TOOLBARS, the toolbar is active and should be visible...
When developing a part in V5, is there any way of cleaning up the final model, getting rid of unnecessary geometry and construction elements and therefore reducing the final model size? In V4 I used the KEEP function, is there anything similar in V5?
In V4 you can merge any geometry, solid, surface etc, from a model into any other given model. If the data merged is a solid for example, it retains all of history tree etc. and can easily be modified in the new model without any effect on the the original.
Is there a similar function within...
