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  1. windsurferm

    Auto dimensioning

    Is it possible to set up an ato dimension in V5 R14 such that as an example in a section all dimensions are created?
  2. windsurferm

    Service pack numbers

    How do you find the service pack number on Catia V5, got asked to confirm the service pack level we run at by a potential customer and have no idea. Anybody know where to find it?
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    Assembly loosing links?

    If for the age old bad house keeping reason you need to move an assembly into a different folder is there a simple way you can point all the files at one folder to find their original links or do you have to go through file by file re-attaching them?
  4. windsurferm

    Closing volume as per V4

    Ladies and Gents, Have frustrated myself half to death today trying to close a volume ( as it would have been in V4 ). How do you create a solid from surface data, from Alias in this case, so that I can do boolean operations on it. It is a sym op component with an open lower face, so have...
  5. windsurferm

    Data level reduction

    I am currently modelling in R14 and have been asked to drop the data level back to R13, can this only be done through the utility or is there a simpler less laborious route?
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    Colour select in V5

    For all those ex-V4 people out there is there a way to select all bodies or open body data of a set colour? As there was in V4, have a mass of surfaces in show all coloured to a grouping format and want to be able to hide all but one colour, does anyone have any ideas?
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    Simple folder creation for a VB simpleton

    We have a generic folder structure which we use for all new projects we start, each new project gets a project number from an excel sheet and currently the individual has to then create the folder, to the same number and then copy the folders from the generic structure into the newly created...
  8. windsurferm

    CATIA V4 Kinematics Sheet

    When learning Kinematics in Version 4 I was given a joints crib sheet which like all other useful support documents has been borrowed and never returned. It was two pages which detailed all of the joints which could be achieved in V4 kinematics, I have a customer who is tring to break his...
  9. windsurferm

    V5 to V4 drawings

    Is it possible to save a V5 CATDrawing in a format which is readable or importable into V4?
  10. windsurferm

    Drawing view surrounds

    CATIA default seems to have blue dashed drawing borders, whilst I have discovered how to turn these off prior to creating the view, in layout with view frame, as far as I can see they can not be hidden once the view is created and if they are switched off prior to view creation then the view can...
  11. windsurferm

    3d solid sweep

    I am trying to create a 3d seal representation wrapping around a 3d seal flange for a door aperture. I would like the part to be solid, but am unable to crete it with rib, and there seems to be no sweep function as in V4 how can I do it. flange is 3d seal profile is 2d sketch?
  12. windsurferm

    The misteries of 100 lines?

    Hey guys could do with a hand am sure it is dead obvious, but am having a blind day if that is the case. Am trying to put denoted 100 lines on a V5 drawing and am struggling, am sure there must be an easy way especially as it is so easy to do when you are sectioning the component. Have already...
  13. windsurferm

    Kinematics

    How do I create a sliding joint in a channel, similar to the sliding door runners on a van side door. I have the shaped channel, but seem to be unable to get a cylindrical bar to slide along it, what kinematic joint should I be using? There was a specific joint in V4 for this type of...
  14. windsurferm

    Orientation of components in V5

    What is the easiest and least time consumptive way to orient parts in Version 5. I have a number of components all clustered on te origin and one locator part on the correct axis system. I have approx 100 components to orient and would be interested in anyone how has done a similar thing, and...

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