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Or create the control points in a scetch... CATIA V5 R20 PC-DMIS 2011 MR1

The key is that the alignment of the two v blocks is relative to an implied 0 position and 0 angle. So they are telling you to use two Vblocks that are perfectly in-line with each other and perfectly oriented to each other. Without the implied 0's the axis doesn't get correctly established down...

"Could you give me an example how you would check form size in my example noted. Use tool room equipment or a CMM with computer control." I realize you only directed this to Evan but I'm going to kick in my method here too: I would scan the tube using a spiral type path with a pitch determined...

Do we report this information for every FOS? No, absolutely not. Do we report it when the feature is critical or when the manufacturing method allows an elevated risk for this type of error? Yes. CATIA V5 R20 PC-DMIS 2011 MR1

Sorry, misspoke in that last post. The reporting is min/max inscribed circle and in min inscribed cylinder. No max circumscribed on a hole. I also report form. CATIA V5 R20 PC-DMIS 2011 MR1

Not sure I'm 100% clear on what you mean by "form size". Never seen that term used. If you mean actual mating envelope size then yes,I believe I do report that when risk level justifies that volume of data. Please tell me if I'm incorrect. A hole is scanned at several cross sections (number...

Sorry for such a late response. You have likely already solved your problem but for what it's worth: This kind of thing is a walk in the park for CMM software like Pc-Dmis. Just do the following: - Use a Rayco plate or other type of flexible fixturing to build something to support this on the...

The standard gets imbedded in the drawing. It sounds like you have changed the master standard. This should give you the new behavior for all new drawings (100% new, not created from a template.) If you want to change the standard in an existing drawing you need to be in admin mode, right click...

Interesting. As noted in my post above I has always used "full" overload and thus believed that it was not possible to add components to an existing scene. There must be another side to this story. What is the downside to using "partial"? There must be one or the the "full" option would not...

Not nearly as automated as in NX but you can add a new component to your product and manually put all of your screws into that. It won't give you the nice instance number display that you get in NX but it will allow you to collapse your main tree view, hide and show easily, etc. CATIA V5 R20...

You will notice very little difference between these versions. The major factor is compatibility. Buy the version required by your classes. If not taking formal classes, and your hardware supports it, buy the latest version R2012. Most major companies stay a version or two behind the latest...

V6 is a different product. The whole point is to allow for multi-site concurrent development. If you don't need to do that than there is no point in switching to V6. If you do need to do that than you need to do the cost benefit analysis to determine if the extra collaboration that V6 allows is...

thread560-323061 Hello, I want to ask the same question that I previously asked in the referenced thread in case an answer might turn up under new scrutiny: How is it possible in CATIA V5R20 to constrain a freeform object into a nest of 6 points? Imagine that the nest is composed of 6 spheres...

Ok, I have been using ASME standard so I will compare the values to ANSI standard. Which values did you need to adjust to get from the OOB standard to what you have now? Thanks CATIA V5 R20 PC-DMIS 2011 MR1

source0d3, Did you end up with an acceptable solution to this question? I am struggling with the same issue. There must be a dozen different parameters that can be set to control the cumulative dimension style and most are set with integer values with no key provided as to what each value...

There are a couple of ways to do this but the function that I think is the most applicable is the "enhanced scenes" function in the assembly workbench. What you want to do is highlight all of the components in the tree that you want to be included in a particular view (ctrl+select, shift+select...

What is the difference between the inertia center of a multi-body catpart as shown in the properties=>mechanical tab and the center of gravity of the same part as shown in the measure item command? The two tools provide slightly difference results for the same part. CATIA V5 R20 PC-DMIS 2011 MR1

Albigger gives good advice here. My general rule is to never create an associative link (sketch projection would be included in this category) with anything that is not visible in the tree. If it doesn't have a name that you can see and modify then you can be pretty sure that CATIA will break...

The Insert=>new Component command works well if this is a one-time thing. This is much faster than what I suggested but the downside to this is that there is no external file created so nothing that you can use in future assemblies. If you go through the extra work to create a separate product...

One possible way would be to group your components together in another product file first and then add this product under your higher level product. I'm very sure you can use multi-instantiation to pattern a product. CATIA V5 R20 PC-DMIS 2011 MR1