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  1. vellu

    Printing Compared 2D CATdrawings

    Hi This is not the answer to your question but anyway an other solution to compare drawings. It can be done by using third party software like Autovue. It's pretty good viewer and includes also drawing compare facilities. Save your drawings as Tiff or Dwg etc., open them in Autovue and compare...
  2. vellu

    Catia V5 R18 appears to be a lemon

    Hi ! Why to use SP2 anyway? The old thruth with major cad systems is that wait some SP5 or SP6 before making any serious plans for production usage. Well - at least I'm happy that you guys are testing and reporting to DS. Then I can enjoy more stabil product a bit later ;-)
  3. vellu

    a few questions

    You have to start your Catia session in admin mode by using the option -admin in your Catia starting icon. Something like "C:\Program Files\Dassault Systemes\B17\intel_a\code\bin\CATSTART.exe" -run "CNEXT.exe -admin" -env CATIA.V5R17.B17 -direnv "C:\Documents and Settings\All...
  4. vellu

    autosnap

    Just create the new sketch element (cirlce etc.) somewhere in your new sketch. Then keeping CTRL-button down select both the new element and the circle's edge in previous feature and define concentricity by "Constraints Defined in Dialox Box" tool. To use the smartpick mentioned by Jackk you...
  5. vellu

    PC to use catiav5 r18

    Most of our Catia pc's have graphics gards with 128Mb memory and seems to be enough. We haven't got any problems with graphics gards. We have big models too. Catia V5R15.
  6. vellu

    LUM SERVER ERROR

    Some basic hints...or questions. Which os you have, Win 200x, Win XP, Unix ? Which version of the LUM ? We have Win 2003 + sp1 and LUM is version 4.6.8 and everything works just fine. Check out the log-file if there is any hints about the crash. Also (if Windows) check out the Event Viewer for...
  7. vellu

    Rotation of part in assembly

    Well, should you take some basic user training session;-) Or stat Catia help and there Mechanical design / Assembly design... Find icon panel named Moving components and use it's tools. Or drag the compass (using the center of compass) onto part's surface and simpy rotate the compass using the...
  8. vellu

    how to explode pattern by vba

    Hi ! Have you tried Edit / Search and then Select. Finally Explode selected. By Search dialog you can even save favorite searches.
  9. vellu

    CATIA V5 Drawing links replace

    You question is quite short and I don't know wheter this explanation is obvious to you, but this is the normal procedure: Open the 3D model. Open the drawing and drawing as active document: Edit / Links Replace / With loaded document Sometimes (if error occures) you have to first remove the...
  10. vellu

    Design mode/Visual mode - desk command issue

    If and when you have so lot of parts and assemblies and you trying to live with them using just directories and naming methods - why not to thing about some proper datamanagemet system? Eg. in SmarTeam there is a standard function named "Design copy" which means that you can easily copy an...
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