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What are some CATIA tricks you can’t live without?

For example hotkeying “hide” to the space bar has saved me countless hours of clicking the hide icon

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u/deeznuts2151 — 6 days ago
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Jobs?

Does anybody have a Design and Drafting job using CATIA V5 or any other platforms? Or are mostly practicing and learning? Asking for a friend.

What are the other skills that are useful and required? Anybody?

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u/Financial-Ease-2407 — 6 days ago
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Can i change the axis at assembly

can someone help me how to change into the second picture axis, because i already make a mistake because it doesnt same when i upload on ansys

u/GoatResponsible1203 — 6 days ago
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Split collection of surfaces contained in geo-sets at once?

I’ve put together a basic model of a body-in-white cabin and I would like to section or “split” the entire model using a surface. Is this possible?

The cabin model is composed of several geo sets, each part of the cabin containing hundreds of faces.

I’ve extruded a surface that I would like to use as my splitting tool, but I can’t seem to get the cabin selected in order to split.

My first notion is that none of the faces in each geo set are “joined” into a single watertight surface model?

My end goal is to “cut” parts of the cabin off and manipulate their location in space.

Poor image for IP reasons so I apologize.

u/Jliddl3 — 7 days ago
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[request] CAD practice alignment chart meme

Around 2020 I worked at a certain automotive company, and a classic D&D-style alignment chart meme for CAD practices started making the rounds. If I ever saved it, i've misplaced it, and I can't seem to find it on the internet. Does anyone have this meme, or do I have to remake it myself?

The alignments were something along the lines of:

lawful good: legibly labels every feature, fully constrains sketches, assemblies properly use link connectors/derived part
true neutral: does not label any feature, sequential numeric part numbers
lawful evil: uses randomly generated 10-digit numeric part numbers
chaotic evil: every sketch is underconstrained, all parts of assembly are modeled in the same workspace, labels every feature something nonsensical, filenames are left as MyPart.CATPart

i'm sure that's not exactly what was written, but those are roughly the topics that were covered. Thanks for your help!

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u/nimbatic — 8 days ago
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Fun lil parametric table

Just messing around with a coffee table design, I wanted it to be as configurable as possible with minimal to no recalculation time

u/ShiftyCoatHanger — 9 days ago
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How can I make my life easier when working on machining?

I've been doing CATIA for about a year now but to this day I still struggle immensely with creating the operations needed to get my desired piece. My professor usually gives us some vague steps (or none at all) to achieve the piece but this can take dozens of hours, if not days.

Surely there must be a better way to do this, this software has been around for decades and I'm sure there must be some good tips and tricks, maybe macros or using an excel?

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u/TheCodeWhistler59 — 9 days ago
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Need help/tutorials for designing a Fuel Quick Connector

I am working on the 3D design of a "Smart" Fuel Quick Connector (VDA standard)
What I am looking for:

  • A video or tutorial showing how to model a T-junction on a plastic housing.
  • If you have any resources or similar project videos, please share!
u/Ussef-Msel-5949 — 11 days ago
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or at least it's what i assume it is called, i'm using a manual which tells me to click on a button to go back to the 3d view but i can't find it

u/PoussinVermillon — 13 days ago
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Faulty export provided a part that's missing a surface.

Wanting to export a shape from openvsp to Catia for detailed design. However, it fails to close one specific face, and I cannot find a way to generate that last surface while making sure it's watertight, so i may turn it into a solid. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated

u/mijailrodr — 11 days ago