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  1. tiasimo

    Bolts and FEA

    Does anyone have experience with FEA and bolt dimensioning? What is the rightr way to model then and constrainthem!! I cannot find the way....
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    BOLT DESIGN AND DIMENSIONING

    CAN ANYONE GIVE ME A HINT WHER TO FIND A PROGRAM OR A FORMULA TO CALCULATE THE NUMBER OF BOLTS AND DIMENSIONS FOR AN EXAMPLE AS THE ONE ON THE PICTURE BELOW? (its a simplification of the problem) Thanx
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    Boundaries from a solid?

    hi all, I am trying to extract a boundary from a solid and I'm finding quite a lot of dificulties. it does the boundary of face, bot doesn't do tangent continiuty boundaries. is that normal?. Also after extracting some faces of solids or complex surfaces, sometimes, i cannot use their edges...
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    spaceball or spacemouse, any experiences??

    Hi all i'm thinking in getting a spacemouse or spaceball, can u give me your opinion and experiences thanx
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    Merging point Clouds with catia?

    Do any one know how to productively merge point clouds from scanners??? I have 55 scanners and want to merge the using DSE and quick surface reconstruction. I tried it and found it quite hard, so i might be doing something wrong, or may be i'm trying to use the wrong software. I also been told...
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    CFD in catia?

    Hi! any of u has used any cfd catia based software???? which are the most knowns??? thanx
  7. tiasimo

    paper size and scale in v5r14

    Does anyone know how to change the papaer size and scale of a drawind (drafting), when creating it. Inprevious versions, it was possible in the dialog box, that comes out when changing workbench, but now i can`t, the scale and paper size is fixed, and i have to change it when inside the drawing
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    maintaining properties when doing operations

    How can i make a scale of a surface or any operation without loosing the properties i asigned to that surface or object?? I want it to maintain the color and transparency etc
  9. tiasimo

    3d content library, and parts

    Hi all I just found on the internet a free 3d model library for solid works, that allows us to download the files in catia v5 version. Quite nice actually. Its www.3dcontentcentral.com Does any of you have found something similar, for CATIA?????
  10. tiasimo

    including parameters in title block

    Hi, do any of you know how to include the value of a paramater in the title block of a drawing when it is created, as for example the area. And when doing the drawing of a part that is included in an product, to show the name of the product and the instance number???
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    how to reduce size of a model

    I just got a 3d model of an outboard engine, that was sized 11mb in rhino, and imported it in cati through iges, and the size of the model in catia is 44mb!!!!! that is huge. Does anyone know how to reduce that. The main problem is that the model contains hundreds, not to say thousands, of...
  12. tiasimo

    catia parts catalog?

    does any of you guys know were to find free downloadable catia parts and assemblies, or even step or similar. I'm looking for furniture, pumps, screws.... etc Thanx
  13. tiasimo

    sensitivity Study with catia V5

    Hi all! Does anyone know if catia is able to do a sensitvity study of a piece, when doing an structural analasys, for some parameters within a given range of values. I Have done it in Pro/e and it was quite interesting, as it allowed the initial designerto optimize the pieces Thanx
  14. tiasimo

    Force update in catia v5 r13

    Hi! anyone knows how to do a forced update in v5 r13. I did it in v5 r11, just tipind c:force update in the command line, but i don't manage to do it in v5 r13 Thanx
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    widescreen conifiguration???

    Hi all I bought an hp pavillion zd7000 series, with a 17" widescreen, and i tried to install catia V5 on it, and everyhing went correct, but the image (DRAWING) is distorted, when i draw a circle in the sketcher, it looks like an ellipse.l Does anybody know how to solve this. the resolution i'm...
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    Microstation VS others

    Hi All I've been a Microstation user for 4 years now, and the last two months we have been looking new software and found softwares like CATIA or Pro/E or even unigraphics, that are parametric, with straight forward changes, and an infinite number of applications included. One big thing is that...
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    Pro/e wildfire or catia V5 for Yacht Design & Engineering

    Hi all! Let me explain first our situation. We are a Yacht Design office in Barcelona, and we are currently using Microstation for designing in 3d. Our models are complete and precise, but we are finding that there is no way of modification of the model, once you have drawn it, and further...

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