Now we know what Dassault thinks of IGES.
:-)
Another trick to keeping model size down is when working with surfaces is to copy the final surface that you want and paste special as result then blow away everything before that pasted surface.
I have a blank catscript tied to a stop icon on a menu bar and this does the trick well also it is good for ending a selection when using a vba interactively.
If you are a degreeed engineer you should have no problem finding a job knowing CATIA V5.
Most aircraft plants are looking for people with these qualifications.
If I'm understanding you correctly you only want to show in the section cut the material you are cutting through and not what is projected beyond the cut.
If so use offset section cut instead of offset section view to make the view.
HTH,
Puck
catiajim is correct in what is happening here I run across it quite often.
Use the up arrow key while over the area fill in question this will bring up the sort selection feature which will give you a list of what is available.
Okay I'm needing to check to see if the curent product I've selected is a Component.
Anybody know of a method to do this.
Here is an example:
Set NexProd = CurProd.Parent.Parent 'I got the parent
'product of my curent part or product.
'Now I need to check to see if it is a Component.
Any...
Create a part model based one the honecomb structural shape.
Have this model parameterized to control the basic size.
i.e. Thickness, width and length.
You would need to setup a rectangular pattern with it's instance's tied to the above parameters.
HTH,
puck
I've been looking but have not found a method of updating the assembly symmetry link via script.
The problem is if you rename the parent part via script and refile it the child loses it's symmetry link.
This part becomes inaccessable and can not be rewritten to the file system.
If the parent is...
Just wanted to get an idea of what different people are using for numbering systems in V5.
Before in the past the group I'm in Assembly Tooling used part numbers tied to sheets this goes back to board drawings days.
IE if something was drawn on sheet 2 it was named 201,202,203,204 and so on...
There is no way of doing this natively with the given tools in Catia but it shouldn't be too difficult to write a script to do this.
Basically you will need to be able to select a table.
Then read the data in each cell into an array and then build the excel file based on that array.
Hopefully...
If you do a search on symbols and then scroll down to common functionalities it will navigate you to all of them even though they are spread out as you say.
Someone here where I work compiled all of these into a pdf so it makes it even easier.
Probably one of the most important things to do is to get familiar with the concept of Catia V5.
Start with a part and sketcher understand all the elements that make them like difference between part bodies and open bodies.
Seems like once you start working with assemblies most people struggle...
I would make two part bodies to start one being the shaft or cone the second would be of one blade.
Once those two are modeled copy the blade two more times and rotate them around the shaft.
The blade could be built on a plane support that is at a given angle to the shaft say 45 degrees.
Quick and easy way to do this is to open the part with the embedded design table select the row of the design table that you want then file it off using save as for each row of the design table.
This a quick way if you say have only a couple of configurations.
Now open your product and insert...
Well the performance gain should be a no brainer in this case but I know those accountant types want to see numbers.
Check the COE website to see if their benchmarks are on the site.
The may have some information on the P3 proccessor but I doubt it.
Check with your suppliers and see if they...
Eric N. method should work fine.
But you might try creating a product template of the sub-assy that you want similar but different.
Parameterize the parts that you know you want to change then stor this off into a catalog.
When you want to bring in one of these sub-assy's just insert it from...
